Engineer patents waterlike polymer to create high-temperature ceramics
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Ceramic textiles, improved jet engine blades, 3-D printed ceramics and better batteries may ...
UTSA professors receive grant to create water-purifying nanomaterial
Heather Shipley, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Burzik Professor in Engineering Design at The University ...
What happens in the living cell?
The plasma membrane serves as a major hub for signal cascades to control crucial cellular processes. But it is a ...
Researchers watch blood vessels develop in whole Zebrafish embryos
Credit: Lei Xi, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China WASHINGTON -- For the first time, researchers have followed ...
PolyU develops accurate contactless 3-D fingerprint identification system
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system ...
Ludwig scientists reveal new advances in cancer research at 2017 AACR annual meeting
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Book pays homage to August Vollmer, father of American policing
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (3/30/17) -- After 10 years of research and a bookcase full of documents, Professor Willard ...
Lighter, more efficient, safer lithium-ion batteries
Credit: UC3M Electric batteries are electrochemical devices that convert chemical energy stored in electricity. They consist of one or several ...
Sensor warns when engine oil in CHP plant is no longer up to the job
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Baraniuk wins Defense Department’s Vannevar Bush Fellowship
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University compressive-sensing pioneer Richard Baraniuk has won one of the Defense Department's most coveted basic ...
Graphene mobile innovation wows at the GSMA Mobile World Congress
Credit: GF/R.Josa Held over four days in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress 2017 attracted over 108,000 visitors, all with the desire ...
Beyond graphene: Advances make reduced graphene oxide electronics feasible
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique for converting positively charged (p-type) reduced graphene oxide (rGO) into ...
£3m awarded to Oxford-led consortium for national machine learning computing facility
(University of Oxford) A consortium of eight UK universities, led by the University of Oxford, has been awarded £3 million ...
Finding faces in a crowd: Context is key when looking for small things in images
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH-- Spotting a face in a crowd, or recognizing any small or distant object within a ...
Biodiversity not a risk factor for emerging diseases and other ecology news
Credit: Ecological Society of America Biodiversity is not a risk factor for emerging disease Understanding the underground dynamics of grassland ...
Resilient red blood cells need fuel to adapt their shape to the environment
Credit: Hiroaki Ito Osaka - Red blood cells, also called erythrocytes, need a certain springiness to circulate through the body. ...
Modern alchemy creates luminescent iron molecules
A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This ...
The beginning of the end of order
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Nanomagnets for future data storage
Credit: ETH Zurich / Université de Rennes The idea is intriguing: if only a single atom or small molecule was ...
Emissions from the edge of the forest
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