NASA’s Apollo-era test chamber now James Webb Space Telescope ready
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's "Chamber A," an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber housed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in...
Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength
Loading video... Credit: Mandre Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Pizza enthusiasts know well that a simple u-shaped curvature...
Drug-delivery method holds promise for controlling crop parasites
Credit: Paul Chariou Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are applying drug-delivery technology to agriculture to control parasitic roundworms more...
Detecting bloodstains — with an antimalarial compound
Credit: American Chemical Society As seen on crime shows, investigators use a combination of luminol and other substances to light...
JSA names co-recipients of its 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize
Washington, DC - Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, announced today that Charles Perdrisat and Charles Sinclair are the recipients of the...
When gold turns invisible
Credit: Seki T. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2, 2017 A gold compound shifts from a...
Bamboo inspires optimal design for lightness and toughness
Credit: Sato M., et al., PLOS ONE, May 3, 2017 The spatial distribution of fibers in hollow bamboo cylinders is...
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject...
From terrestrial and marine bioresources and wastes to value-added products
One of the main objectives of bio-based economy is to provide end markets with a wide selection of bio-based products...
Spotting the invisible
(Umea University) Chemists at Umeå University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping structures and functions of a transient enzyme state....
Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women
Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers...
Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers
Credit: © Thomas Le Provost Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key...
Nitrogen oxides emissions: Traffic dramatically underestimated as major polluter
Credit: Uni Innsbruck In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are consistently breached. It has been...
CNIO presents an online tool to extract drug toxicity information from text
The Biological Text Mining Unit presents in a recent Nucleic Acids Research paper the LimTox online software tool developed at...
Uber and Kazan University name Saint-Petersburg the most ‘taxi-abundant’ city in Russia
The two parties sampled 1,600 Uber users in Russia's five biggest cities - Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. The...
PNG expedition discovers largest trees at extreme altitudes
Credit: Dr Michelle Venter The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds...
Reading to therapy dogs improves literacy attitudes in second-grade students
Credit: Melody Ko for Tufts University Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an afterschool program demonstrated improved attitudes...
Study shows big smart meter investment yielded ‘very small’ electricity savings
Smart meters and time-of-use electricity pricing have only modestly reduced residential energy demand during the most expensive peak periods, a...
Spotted owls benefit from forest fire mosaic
Credit: S. Eyes Fire is a crucial part of the forest ecosystem on which threatened Spotted Owls rely, but climate...
New details on nest preferences of declining sparrow
Credit: J. Carpenter Theory says that birds should choose nest sites that minimize their risk of predation, but studies often...
