Hate to wait? Sandia looks to speed up climate research
Early career researcher to lead projectCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Presumably, Leonardo da Vinci could have saved a ...
Giving robots a faster grasp
An algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects, for picking and sorting, or ...
Wistar awarded $12.5M grant for improved melanoma targeted therapies
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 17, 2019) -- The Wistar Institute and collaborating institutions have received a major ...
How roots grow hair
'Smoke detectors' in plants also control the growth of root hairCredit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM The roots of plants can ...
Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons in a step toward sensory computing
Credit: Michelle Lehman/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ...
Stretchable circuits: New process simplifies production of functional prototypes
Credit: Saar-Uni It is based on a so-called laser cutter and its precise, fast cuts. These are provided by easy-to-use ...
First generation of induced pluripotent stem cells from domestic cats
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 17, 2019-Researchers have reported for the first time producing feline ...
Computer scientists receive award for pioneering work on time-critical software systems
Credit: Saarland University For their pioneering work, which was published in 2001, they were honored yesterday evening in New York ...
Europe prepares four 5G pilots in industrial applications
Credit: Mohamed Hassan | Pixabay A European research project coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), named 5Growth, ...
Autonomous tram in depot
KIT, Siemens Mobility, and other partners start the 'autonomous tram in depot' project, BMVI funds research on a fully automated ...
Bone regrowth using ceramic substitute and E. coli-derived growth factors
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 16, 2019-Synthetic bone substitutes are promising materials for bone defect ...
Deet gives humans an ‘invisibilty cloak’ to fend off mosquito bites
DEET may chemically 'cloak' humans from malaria-carrying mosquitos, rather than repel themCredit: Christopher Potter Since its invention during the Second ...
Figuring out Alzheimer’s
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski One of the tasks of the scientists work is to explain how the world functions. ...
BARseq builds a better brain map
Credit: Zador lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Anthony Zador has taken the next step in his quest to ...
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
Credit: Hubble and Chandra Image: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo); Very Large Array Telescope Image: ...
What happens under the Yellowstone Volcano
Study provides information about the processes deep inside the EarthCredit: Steinberger et al. The Yellowstone National Park in the USA ...
Double layer of graphene helps to control spin currents
New type of transistor one step closerCredit: S. Omar, University of Groningen In order to make transistors that operate using ...
First demonstration of a 1 petabit per second network node
Gathering the latest advancements in optical fiber telecommunications technology towards practical petabit-class backbone networksCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications ...
Image analysis to automatically quantify gender bias in movies
Credit: KAIST Many commercial films worldwide continue to express womanhood in a stereotypical manner, a recent study using image analysis ...
Controlling ion recognition in reactive host-guest systems
Credit: Kanazawa University Sometimes a molecule can only undergo a particular chemical reaction if it forms a so-called host-guest complex ...
