Penn engineers overcome a hurdle in growing a revolutionary optical metamaterial
When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied...
New approach to measure fluid drag on the body during swimming
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - A key factor to improve swimming performance is reducing resistance that water exerts...
New data about 2 distant asteroids give a clue to the possible ‘Planet Nine’
Credit: Julia de León (IAC). In the year 2000 the first of a new class of distant solar system objects...
Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars
Credit: Maud Galametz. Almost all the light we see in the universe comes from stars which form inside dense clouds...
What’s the healthiest way to eat your veggies? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2017 -- Vegetables are chock-full of essential vitamins and minerals, but how...
Study finds significant limitations of physician-rating websites
An analysis of 28 commercial physician-rating websites finds that search mechanisms are cumbersome, and reviews scarce, according to a study...
Deep Learning predicts hematopoietic stem cell development
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Autonomous driving, automatic speech recognition, and the game Go: Deep...
The smallest Cas9 genetic scissors (so far)
Credit: IBS Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), in collaboration with KIM...
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute awarded $3 million to develop biological pacemakers
LOS ANGELES (Feb. 21, 2017) - With a new $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Cedars-Sinai Heart...
New approach to cervical cancer care in Botswana cuts treatment lag time in half
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for women low- and middle-income countries, including Botswana,...
Biomarker predicts poor prognosis in African-Americans with triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Having high levels of a certain biomarker is linked to poor prognosis in African-American patients with...
Danish discovery opens up for new type of immunological treatment of cancer
Researchers from Aarhus University have found an important piece of the puzzle leading towards an understanding of how our innate...
Israeli, Palestinian researchers cooperate to find risks for B cell non-hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), tumors which may originate from B or T lymphocytes, account for approximately 3% of the worldwide cancer...
Scientists remove reliance on seasonality in new broccoli line, potentially doubling yield
Credit: The John Innes Centre Scientists at the John Innes Centre are developing a new line of fast-growing sprouting broccoli...
Stabilizing energy storage
Credit: Sharmila Samaroo/University of Michigan. Because the sun doesn't always shine, solar utilities need a way to store extra charge...
Gamification motivates consumers to reduce power consumption peaks
In collaboration with the international CITYOPT project, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an energy planning tool for...
DOOMED is new online learning approach to robotics modeling
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, February 21, 2017--Robotics researchers have developed a novel adaptive control approach based...
Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by Sandia researchers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When a meteor is about to conk your neighborhood and gives fair warning by emitting sizzling, rustling...
Unlocking crop diversity by manipulating plant sex
Credit: Dr Ian Henderson Plant geneticists at the University of Cambridge have found that different wild varieties of thale cress...
Winners and losers: Climate change will shift vegetation
Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st...
