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Offshore wind push
Credit: Jeffrey Chase/University of Delaware Injecting large amounts of offshore wind power into the U.S. electrical grid is manageable, will...
Anticipating the aroma of a chemical compound
Credit: Rockefeller University and IBM Research Data collected through a crowdsourcing competition demonstrates that it is possible to accurately predict...
E-cigarettes popular among smokers with existing illnesses
Ann Arbor, MI, Feb. 21, 2017 - In the U.S. more than 16 million people with smoking-related illnesses continue to...
NASA sees development of South Pacific’s Tropical Cyclone Bart
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Bart has developed in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's...
UC Riverside gets $5.1 million to fight citrus killer
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside,...
New design for longer lasting night-vision cameras
With the amazing ability to survey areas in complete darkness, night-vision cameras have revolutionized the security industry. But the materials...
Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events
Credit: Jennie Brewton / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 - Global climate change is being felt in many coastal...
Scientists unlock ability to generate new sensory hair cells
Boston, MA-- Hearing loss affects 360 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Inner ear sensory cells, called...
New insights into the information processing of motor neurons
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience In a study published in Cell Reports in February 2017, Matt Rowan, Ph.D.,...
Model helps explain why some patients with multiple sclerosis have seizures
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system...
Children’s Mercy honored as recipient of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards
Credit: Children's Mercy Kansas City KANSAS CITY, MO -- February 21, 2017 -- Children's Mercy Kansas City today announced it...
Artificial synapse for neural networks
Credit: L.A. Cicero For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy,...
NASA spots short-lived Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of the Southern Pacific Ocean's newly formed tropical cyclone...
Science vs. the sea lamprey
Montreal, February 21, 2017 -- Of all the fishy predators in the Great Lakes, few are more destructive than the...