Reactive lignin for reducing the environmental impacts of wood products
Credit: Photo: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed technology known as "CatLignin" to produce reactive lignin from...
Cultivated scallops populations develop distinct genetic structure
Credit: Photo: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast The scallop is one of the largest edible molluscs, and gourmets consider it...
NASA to launch Raven to develop autonomous rendezvous capability
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stuart Snodgrass, producer Launching soon, aboard the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, will...
Lipid nanoparticles for gene therapy
(University of the Basque Country ) 25 years have passed since the publication of the first work on solid lipid...
Kurt Gottfried receives 2016 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
Dr. Kurt Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism, has been awarded the...
NASA and MIT Collaborate to develop space-based quantum-dot spectrometer
Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the...
CIFAR at AAAS: Presentations by Canadian and international researchers
Here are summaries of research to be presented by CIFAR fellows at the 2017 AAAS meeting in Boston, MA from...
Limited evidence that styrene causes cancer
Limited evidence that styrene, a high volume plastics chemical and animal carcinogen, causes cancer in humans In 2011, the styrene,...
Seismicity in British Columbia and hidden continent called Zealandia
Double Issue of GSA Today Covers Seismicity in British Columbia and A Hidden Continent Called Zealandia Boulder, Colorado, USA -...
NTU, JTC and SMRT to develop integrated transport solutions with joint research lab
Credit: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), JTC and SMRT Services Pte Ltd (SMRT) have joined...
Technology puts ‘touch’ into long-distance relationships
Credit: SFU Long-distance couples can share a walk, watch movies together, and even give each other a massage, using new...
Children of patients with C9orf72 mutations: Greater risk of frontotemporal dementia/ALS
The most common genetic cause of the brain diseases frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a mutation...
Biological experiments become transparent — anywhere, any time
Biological experiments are generating increasingly large and complex sets of data. This has made it difficult to reproduce experiments at...
A better way to swallow
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (February 14, 2017) ... Dysphagia, or swallowing disorders, affects nearly one in 25...
Just press print: New study shows how 3-D printing at home saves big bucks
Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and...
Graphene foam gets big and tough
Credit: Tour Group/Rice University A chunk of conductive graphene foam reinforced by carbon nanotubes can support more than 3,000 times...
Two PNNL researchers elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to...
Ventura fault could cause stronger shaking, new research finds
Credit: Gareth J. Funning and Scott T. Marshall. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A new study by a team of researchers, including...
A nanofiber matrix for healing
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS A new nanofiber-on-microfiber matrix could help produce more and better quality stem cells for disease treatment...
Learning how to fine-tune nanofabrication
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving...