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MADISON, Wis. -- Developing renewable, plant-based alternatives for petroleum-derived chemicals is a major piece of the effort to transition away...

Credit: F. Carbone/EPFL Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is also a...

Credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering New York, NY--May 2, 2019--Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology,...

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Scientists are excited about diamonds -- not the types that adorn jewelry, but the microscopic...

Credit: Douglas Kamaru Endangered African antelope and the lions that prey on them may benefit from certain cattle ranching practices...

Credit: © LHEP / AEC, University of Bern Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have...

Credit: © Nature Genetics - Pont/Duchemin/Armisen First they mapped the genome of wheat; now they have reconstructed its breeding history....

A novel, non-invasive technique that uses quantum light to measure temperature at the nanoscale has been developed Being able to...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the creation of a beam of nanodroplets capable of delivering a variety of...

Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of...

Credit: NASA/JAXA/Jacob Ree Satellite data revealed heavy rainfall in powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani before it made landfall in northeastern India....

Data-sampling method makes 'sketches' of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types Artistic sketches can...

Credit: David McNally HAMPTON, Va. -- The U.S. Army is developing a new wind-tunnel testbed that will help future tiltrotor...

Upfront cost of inducing labor at 39 weeks is equal to costs that accrue during longer pregnancies. Expectant parents wait...

Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a secondCredit: Oliver Bünermann / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & University of...

The new device carries precision measurement in a fraction of a second without delaying production, saving time, energy and costsCredit:...

ISSRM to celebrate 70th anniversary of 'A Sand County Almanac' by Aldo Leopold The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will host...

Thanks to a new $1.8 million grant from The Helmsley Charitable Trust, UT Austin Engineer Hyun Jung Kim will apply...

Credit: IRB Barcelona. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease describes several liver dysfunctions of varying severity, characterised by the accumulation of fat...

Technique opens door for studies of countless hard-to-crystallize proteins involved in health and diseaseCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Using x-rays...