Climate changes may lead to more poisonous mercury in plankton
(Umea University) Global warming is expected to increase runoff and input of organic matter to aquatic ecosystems in large regions ...
Clue to how cancer cells spread
New Haven, Conn.-- In a second human case, a Yale-led research team has found that a melanoma cell and a ...
Toxic mercury in aquatic life could spike with greater land runoff
Credit: Sofi Jonsson A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton -- tiny ...
TSRI scientists find brain hormone that triggers fat burning
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt.) LA JOLLA, CA - January 27, 2017 - Biologists at The ...
GSG III Foundation pledges more than $1 million for Lung Research Program at UofL
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A new research program at the University of Louisville will focus on developing better methods for studying ...
Finding credibility clues on Twitter
By scanning 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a language ...
Aerospace engineering doctoral student earns NASA Pathways internship
Credit: UT Arlington Cody Ground, a doctoral student in The University of Texas at Arlington's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, ...
New techniques allow greater control of smartwatches
Credit: Gabriel Reyes Smartwatches aren't the easiest things to control, with their small screens and owner't bulky fingers. Georgia Institute ...
Researchers develop label-free technique to image microtubules
Credit: Kandel et. al., ACS Nano 2016 Imaging very small materials takes not only great skill on the part of ...
The ancient Indus civilization’s adaptation to climate change
With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt ...
New system for therapeutic gene delivery increases transgene expression up to 100-fold
Credit: ©2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 27, 2017 -- Advanced engineering of a mini-intronic plasmid ...
Absorbing electromagnetic energy while avoiding the heat
Credit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial ...
Physics: Toward a practical nuclear pendulum
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus ...
Star birth with a chance of Winds?
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety ...
PPPL scientist uncovers physics behind plasma-etching process
Credit: Elle Starkman Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators have ...
Andalusian scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago
Credit: NASA A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for ...
New ‘needle-pulse’ beam pattern packs a punch
Credit: Photo by J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring ...
A new approach to 3-D holographic displays greatly improves the image quality
Daejeon, Republic of Korea, January 27, 2016--The potential applications of three-dimensional (3D) digital holograms are enormous. In addition to arts ...
Chiral quantum optics: A new research field with bright perspectives
Credit: TU Wien Recently, surprising physical effects were observed using special microscopic waveguides for light. Such "photonic structures" currently are ...
Nordic countries are bringing about an energy transition worth copying
What can we learn from the Nordic low-carbon energy transition given the new US leadership vacuum on climate change? A ...
