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Making moves and memories, are they connected?
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It is known that certain areas of the brain are responsible for certain functions of...
Drop your weapons!
Credit: Ana Endara, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Animal weapons such as antlers, tusks and limbs specialized for fighting require a...
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
Credit: Liu et al., Nano Letters, 2018 November 13, 2018 In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning....
NUS innovation opens doors to smaller, cheaper and long-lasting IoT sensors
Credit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the Green IC research group at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have...
Chinese fusion tool pushes past 100 million degrees
Credit: EAST Team The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun", achieved an electron temperature of over...
Southwest Research Institute’s Terrence Alger awarded for engine innovations
Credit: TAMEST Terrence F. Alger II, Ph.D., of the Southwest Research Institute is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and...
Police officers ‘open up’ about body-worn cameras in a post-ferguson era
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, generated political and...
Quantum science turns social
Credit: Robert Heck, AU Researchers developed a versatile remote gaming interface that allowed external experts as well as hundreds of...
Photo recognition that keeps personal interests private
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - From just a quick snapshot on a smartphone, image recognition technology can provide a...
Physicists discover new way of resonance tuning for nonlinear optics
A research team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that different metasurfaces exhibit the same behavior...
Towards a Unified Soil Mechanics Theory. The use of effective stresses in unsaturated soils
When Karl von Terzaghi applied the effective stress principle in the soil mechanics theory, the strength and volumetric behavior of...
Salmon are shrinking and it shows in their genes
Male salmon are maturing earlier and becoming smaller, and it shows in their genes. This was the discovery of a...
Next step on the path towards an efficient biofuel cell
Credit: RUB, Marquard Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that...
Earth’s magnetic field measured using artificial stars at 90 kilometers altitude
Credit: photo/©: Felipe Pedreros Bustos The mesosphere, at heights between 85 and 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface, contains a...
Ringling train chugs into digital world
Credit: The Ringling Museum SARASOTA, Fla. (November 14, 2018)- The century-old train car known to be the site of business...
Harvard launches new initiative in quantum science and engineering
Summary: New Harvard Quantum Initiative pairs quantum science exploration with solution-driven quantum engineering. Co-directors John Doyle, Evelyn Hu, and Mikhail...
Hal Alper recognized for engineering sustainable materials and chemicals
Credit: TAMEST Hal S. Alper, Ph.D., of The University of Texas at Austin is the recipient of the 2019 Edith...
Julie Pfeiffer awarded for groundbreaking work on viruses and bacteria
Credit: TAMEST Julie Pfeiffer, Ph.D., of UT Southwestern Medical Center is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and Peter O'Donnell...
Chinese scientists develop novel instrument for rapid profiling of antimicrobial resistance
Credit: ZHU Pengfei Widespread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the associated rise of "superbugs" is a major public health threat. A...
Future Science Group publishes third edition of The Bioanalysis Glossary
Bioanalysis Zone and Bioanalysis journal have this month launched the third edition of The Bioanalysis Glossary, an essential resource for...
