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NASA-NOAA satellite catches Hurricane Kiko at night
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Hurricane Kiko continued to track west through the Eastern Pacific Ocean when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed...
NASA satellite provides a view of a large hurricane Humberto
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra Satellite provided a visible image of...
WVU engineer aims to improve profitability and flexibility of coal-fired power plants using AI
Credit: Paige Nesbit/West Virginia University One West Virginia University chemical engineer is tapping into artificial intelligence to prolong the lives...
Hyperbolic paraboloid origami harnesses bistability to enable new applications
Credit: Allison Carter While perhaps not as iconic as the paper crane, the hypar origami with its sweeping opposing arcs...
New piece of Alzheimer’s puzzle found
Researchers discover that two short strings of amino acids could pave the way to new treatments for Alzheimer's diseaseCredit: Jordan...
Programmable swarmbots make flexible biological tools
The biomanufacturing platform uses bursting bacteria and a shrinking capsule to produce targeted proteinsCredit: Zhuojun Dai DURHAM, N.C.-- Biomedical engineers...
Coveted NCI award comes to BRCA expert at UT Health San Antonio
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. -- UT Health San Antonio biochemist Patrick Sung, D.Phil., one of...
Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine names Dr. Garlanger winner of Bors Award
Kristin Garlanger, DO, of the Mayo Clinic, is this year's winner of the Ernest Bors, MD Award for Scientific Development,...
Lifetime achievement award for a scientific pioneer
Haseltine recognized for 'contributions of outstanding significance to women's health'Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington From a very early...
Every step a cell takes, every move they make — scientists will be watching
Scientists have created a novel two-layer microchip to track individual developmental changes in stem cells over longer time periodsCredit: Ben-Yakar...
Studying drivers behind cardiac arrhythmias
Visualizing electrical patterns underlying abnormal heart contractions and deformationsCredit: University Medical Center Göttingen WASHINGTON, D.C., September 17, 2019 -- Despite...
Scientists create fully electronic 2-dimensional spin transistors
Credit: Talieh Ghiasi et al. Physicists from the University of Groningen constructed a two-dimensional spin transistor, in which spin currents...
Elusive compounds of greenhouse gas isolated by Warwick chemists
Credit: University of Warwick Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance. The ability to exploit this gas...
Did microbes assist life in colonizing land?
Comparative microbiome study enables researchers of the Kiel based CRC 1182 to gain new insights into the course of evolutionCredit:...
From primordial black holes new clues to dark matter
Studying the interactions between light and gas in intergalactic space, SISSA scientists are trying to unravel the composition of the...
Suicide risk factors vary by ethnic group
New risk profiles needed for better suicide predictionCredit: University of Houston Approximately 8.3 million adults in the United States reported...
Not the hairstyle, but the content: Hair indicates whether wild animals were ‘stressed’
Credit: Artemy Voikhansky, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55825509 While hair analysis has become routine in humans - for example for the detection of prolonged...
Kaleidoscope mirror symmetry inspires new design for optical tools, technologies
Using multiple-axis symmetry inspired by kaleidoscopes, new polarization designs can control spin angular momentum and transverse energy flow for complex...
Gene editing enables researchers to correct mutation in muscle stem cells in DMD model
Correction of mutation in muscle stem cells with CRISPR editing may pave the way for lifelong treatments for muscular dystrophyCredit:...
A Matter of concentration
Credit: Photo: Thomas Kunz Plants can grow whole new organs with the help of pluripotent stem cells throughout their entire...
