Tsunami reveals human noise pollution in Hawaiian waters
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A tsunami that struck Hawaii in 2011 and caused a temporary halt to boat...
Under pressure
When 15 North Atlantic right whales turned up dead in U.S. and Canadian waters in the summer of 2017, it...
Preparing for the power outages and water shortages of the next disaster
Credit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson; illustration by Joy Smoker--University of Delaware After hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, residents of...
Voltage-driven liquid metal fractals
Credit: Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that gallium indium (EGaIn), a...
Research aims to help renewable jet fuel take flight
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Airplanes zoom overhead, wispy-white contrails streaming behind them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) handled 43,684...
The advent of ‘green’ cattle
Implications of livestock farming on climate change should not be drawn from aggregate statistics, reveals a study based on a...
Fish oil or fish consumption? New recommendations for pregnant women trying to prevent childhood asthma
Credit: Courtesy of University of South Florida Pregnant women who consume fish rather than fish oil supplements are just as...
Right-handed baseball players more successful when batting left-handed
It is known that baseball players who bat left-handed are overrepresented in the sport. But new research by David Mann...
VTT’s EUR 3 million investment accelerates the development of new kinds of fibre products
Credit: VTT Cellulose and other fibres are future materials that can replace many plastic and mineral-based materials in the industrial...
Examining potatoes’ past could improve spuds of the future
Credit: Courtesy of Robin Buell The old adage of looking to the past to understand the future certainly applies to...
Two Princeton astrophysicists receive funding to study merging neutron stars
Credit: Adam Burrows and collaborators/Princeton/TEAMS Adam Burrows, a professor of astrophysical sciences, and David Radice, an associate research scholar, have...
Native trees, shrubs provide more food for birds
Credit: Desiree Narango and Doug Tallamy/University of Delaware University of Delaware doctoral student Desiree Narango is researching trees and shrubs...
Genetic study uncovers evolutionary history of dingoes
Credit: Image: Lyn Watson/Australian Dingo Foundation A major study of dingo DNA has revealed dingoes most likely migrated to Australia...
Graphene enables high-speed electronics on flexible materials
Credit: Boid - Product Design Studio, Gothenburg/Chalmers University of Technology Terahertz radiation has a wide range of uses and can...
Spooky conservation: Saving endangered species over our dead bodies
Credit: Jodie Buller The secret to the survival of critically endangered wildlife could lie beyond the grave, according to a...
University of Delaware’s Thomas Epps named American Physical Society Fellow
Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware Thomas H. Epps, III, the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor in the Department of Chemical...
Colorectal cancer screening should start at 45, new research shows
Credit: United European Gastroenterology Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) should begin at 45 years of age to match rising mortality...
Artificial intelligence: Is this the future of early cancer detection?
Credit: UEG (Barcelona, Oct. 30, 2017) A new endoscopic system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) has today been shown to...
Pumpkin genomes sequenced, revealing uncommon evolutionary history
Credit: Zhangjun Fei and Marissa Zuckerman For some, pumpkins conjure carved Halloween decorations, but for many people around the world,...
Cancer trial led by University of Minnesota Medical School’s Dr. Clark Chen shows promise
MINNEAPOLIS - October 27, 2017 - New data from a Phase I clinical trial led by Clark Chen, M.D., Ph.D.,...
