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Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The...

ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al. 1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies...

Image release: ALMA captures explosive star birth

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Gemini Observatory/AURA Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as...

Grant to support research aimed at benefitting patients with IBD

Credit: UCR School of Medicine. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine...

Device boosts interaction between light and motion

Credit: Thiago Pedro Mayer Alegre Optomechanical devices, which simultaneously confine light waves and mechanical waves to permit interaction between them,...

UTSA student-led team receives NSF grant to develop vein-finding medical device

Credit: UTSA A student-led team from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the beneficiary of a $50,000...

A new parameterization of canopy radiative transfer for land surface radiation models

Credit: Feng Zhang Among the physical processes of land surfaces, canopy radiative transfer is especially important. It plays a key...

CD38 gene is identified to be important in postnatal development of the cerebral cortex

Credit: Kanazawa University Cells in the brain are categorized roughly into two; neurons and the others, namely, glial cells. It...

‘What do old books smell like?’ — Preserving smells as important cultural heritage

A 'Historic Book Odour Wheel' which has been developed to document and archive the aroma associated with old books, is...

Next Generation TimeTree: An expanded history of life on Earth at your fingertips

Credit: Temple University Temple University's scientists Sudhir Kumar and S. Blair Hedges, of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine...

Patients on HeartMate 3 have fewer blood-related events than those on HeartMate II

Credit: Abbott A six-month analysis of the pivotal MOMENTUM 3 trial found that patients implanted with the new HeartMate 3...

156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields

Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers...

Researchers create new diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer

Loading video... Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University researchers have created a patent-pending, optical diagnostic probe capable of safely and non-invasively...

Mount Sinai study reveals how learning in the present shapes future learning