Foreign graduate students and postdocs consider leaving the US
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Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for electronics and photonics
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from...
UH Physicist launches new journal for materials science
Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for...
IT Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems
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Researchers make headway toward understanding Alexander disease
Credit: Waisman Center/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery...
NASA spots sub-tropical storm 11S still swirling
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly...
Study links sulfide-producing bacteria and colon cancer in African-Americans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation...
Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the air
(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University...
Researchers discover star in closest known orbit around black hole
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Visualizing debris disk ‘roller derby’ to understand planetary system evolution
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Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen probes
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NASA’s webb telescope ghostly ‘lights out’ inspection
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently...
World-first surveillance strategy shaped by Stirling expertise
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Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for ele
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from...
Mapping the effects of crystal defects
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Biochemists develop new way to control cell biology with light
Credit: Robert Campbell Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular...
Quantum key system could make mobile transactions far more secure
Credit: Iris Choi, Oxford University WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at...
Protostar blazes bright, reshaping its stellar nursery
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Hunter; C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); GLIMPSE, NASA/JPL-Caltech A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled...
When the sea ice melts, juvenile polar cod may go hungry
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