Sun’s eruptions might all have same trigger
Credit: Wyper, P./Nature Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new ...
UCI physicists design 2-D materials that conduct electricity at almost the speed of light
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif. - Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new ...
Scientists propose mechanism to describe solar eruptions of all sizes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ARMS/Genna Duberstein, producer From long, tapered jets to massive explosions of solar material and energy, ...
Paleontologists identify new 507-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers
Loading video... Credit: Image credit: 3D animation by Lars Fields. Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Paleontologists at ...
New study deems dairy ‘excellent’ source of protein for children
URBANA, Ill. - Researchers at the University of Illinois are using pigs as a model to study the best way ...
Corn with a cover of grass
Credit: Iowa State University photo credit Dan Kuester. The phrase "a double-edged sword" describes something that is beneficial in some ...
USDA announces $1 million to support agricultural science education for insular areas
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...
USDA announces $800,000 to support distance education in the agricultural sciences
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...
Food photos help Instagram users with healthy eating
Instagram users post millions of food photos -- whether to show off a sophisticated palate, make friends drool over chicken ...
Sequencing the station: Investigation aims to identify unknown microbes in space
Credit: NASA Building on the ability to sequence DNA in space and previous investigations, Genes in Space-3 is a collaboration ...
Larger schooling fish found to have stronger attraction forces
In schooling fish, collective movement emerges as a result of multiple social interactions between individuals. In a new study led ...
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her ...
Synthetic two-sided gecko’s foot could enable underwater robotics
Geckos are well known for effortlessly scrambling up walls and upside down across ceilings. Even in slippery rain forests, the ...
Longer-lasting pain relief with MOFs
To treat headaches, back pain or fever, most of us have reached for ibuprofen at one point or another. But ...
Several EPA programs face possible elimination under Trump proposal
The Trump administration's proposed plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes completely defunding several programs related to climate change, ...
Scientists using high tech microscope find clues to an autoimmune disease
AURORA, Colo. (April 26, 2017) - Using a unique microscope capable of illuminating living cell structures in great detail, researchers ...
Digital life project uses 3-D to document endangered frogs
Credit: Digital Life/David McIntyre AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by evolutionary ...
Chad M. Walesky, Ph.D., to receive the ASIP 2017 Young Scientist Leadership Award
The ASIP Young Scientist Leadership Award is supported by the A.D. Sobel - ASIP Education Fund and recognizes outstanding and ...
Katerina A. Politi, Ph.D., to receive the ASIP 2017 Cotran Early Investigator Award
The Cotran Early Career Investigator Award is partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Elsevier, an ASIP Corporate Partner. ...
A more than 100 percent quantum step toward producing hydrogen fuel
Efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels are advancing on various significant fronts. Such initiatives include research focused on ...
