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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
Credit: Photo credit: Oliver Dietze Thanks to a new sensor system developed collaboratively by Professor Andreas Schütze and his research...
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
Credit: University of Konstanz Now, 50 years later, a group of physicists from Konstanz headed by Dr Peter Keim, were...
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
Credit: Usina Trapiche S/A When talk is of important ecosystems, tropical forests are top of the list. After all, half...
Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
(Royal Astronomical Society) Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according...
Method identified to boost detection of highly cancerous stem cells
Credit: Department of Stem Cell Regulation,TMDU Japanese researchers identify process to improve fluorescence detection of cancer stem cells, which are...
An epigenetic lesion could be responsible for acute T-cell leukemia
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Bellvitge Biomedical...
ELCC 2017: Latest news in lung cancer
Geneva, Switzerland -5 May-8 May 2017 Around 2,000 delegates from across Europe and worldwide will learn about the latest practice-changing...
Cancer cells disguise themselves by switching off genes, new research reveals
Amsterdam, March 30, 2017 - Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread...
Anti-cancer drug gets a boost when combined with antirheumatic
Credit: Paul Dyson/EPFL Scientists at EPFL and NTU have discovered that combining an anticancer drug with an antirheumatic produces improved...