What do dragonflies teach us about missile defense?
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit...
Closing the terahertz gap: Tiny laser is an important step toward new sensors
Credit: Sterczewski et al. In a major step toward developing portable scanners that can rapidly measure molecules in pharmaceuticals or...
Insilico Medicine to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019
Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019 in Berlin on...
Found: Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
Credit: Caltech/IPAC Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science...
Visits to the dentist decline in old age, especially among minorities
Study also finds disparities in adult dental visits by race, immigration Visits to the dentist drop significantly after adults turn...
Developing technologies that run on light
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral...
High blood pressure treatment and nursing home residents
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society research summary Although 27 percent of all older adults who live in nursing homes...
Suomi NPP satellite sees Tropical Depression Dalila fading
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of weakening Tropical Depression Dalila in the Eastern Pacific...
Designed protein switch allows unprecedented control over living cells
From modifying gene expression to cell signaling, dynamic designer proteins may usher in a new era of synthetic biologyCredit: UW...
Study to explore accessibility of talk therapy treatment for new mothers is underway
The departments of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine are collaborating on a large-scale, $13.2...
Skoltech scientists developed a novel method to fine-tune the properties of carbon nanotubes
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials (CPQM) have developed a novel method to fine-tune the optoelectrical...
NASA’s Terra sees the end of Atlantic Tropical Depression 3
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview The third tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season didn't last long. NASA's Terra satellite...
Findings from CARE Consortium added to global repository for brain injury data
Credit: IU School of Medicine Data from the world's most comprehensive concussion study is now publicly available in a repository...
New research has potential for ‘unpacking’ complex simultaneous emotions in adolescence
Shows for the first time that complex, mixed simultaneous emotions in adolescents could be assessed using an Analogue Emotion Scale...
Penn engineers’ ‘LADL’ uses light to serve up on-demand genome folding
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Every cell in your body has a copy of your genome, tightly coiled and packed into...
Mediterranean diet during pregnancy associated with improved maternal health outcomes
Tree nuts, predominately walnuts, and extra virgin olive oil featured as key foods in a new clinical trial that assessed...
South Florida partnership using data to guide stroke triage decisions
EMS-driven effort to improve stroke systems of care is first of its kind in the nation Miami Beach, Fla.--A progressive...
How climate change disrupts relationships
Credit: Sandra Kehrberger Higher mean temperatures as associated with climate change can have a severe impact on plants and animals...
Worrisome increase in some medical scans during pregnancy
First large study of advanced imaging covering two decades finds rise in CT scans, which involve radiation Use of medical...
Scientists complete first assessment of blood abnormalities in Antarctic penguin colony
Credit: Silvia Olmastroni, University of Siena Scientists have completed the first study of immune and genetic stability among a colony...
