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Where you grow what you grow
Credit: Augustine Obour Camelina: Have you heard of it? It's an emerging alternative oilseed crop in parts of the Great...
First-of-its-kind study shows how hand amputation, reattachment affect brain
COLUMBIA, Mo. (May 24, 2017) -- When a person loses a hand to amputation, nerves that control sensation and movement...
Scientists capture the first cryo-EM images of cellular target for type 2 diabetes in action
ANN ARBOR--Researchers at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and biotech company ConfometRx have captured the first cryo-electron microscopy snapshots...
Scientists develop new concept of confined catalysis under 2-D materials
The research group led by Profs. FU Qiang and BAO Xinhe from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the...
Machine learning may help in early identification of severe sepsis
Credit: ATS ATS 2017, WASHINGTON, DC -- A machine-learning algorithm has the capability to identify hospitalized patients at risk for...
New theory predicts wetted area of droplets colliding with flat surface
Credit: Assistant Professor Yukihiro Yonemoto Japanese researchers have succeeded in deriving a theoretical formula that quantitatively predicts the wetting and...
Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
Credit: © EPFL/Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine - Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonic Nanometric-sized water drops are everywhere - in the...
One-dimensional crystals for low-temperature thermoelectric cooling
Credit: Yoshihiko Okamoto Nagoya, Japan- Thermoelectric cooling is a solid-state refrigeration process where the heat in an electrically conductive material...
Volunteers help ANU find star that exploded 970 million years ago, predating the dinosaurs
Credit: ANU Online volunteers, including a woman from Belgium and a Scottish man, have helped astronomers at The Australian National...
Sorghum: Health food, sweetener and now, clothing dye
Credit: American Chemical Society Sorghum has long been a staple food in many parts of the world, but in the...
Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research institute partners with Wiley
HOBOKEN, NJ - 24 May 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) and Electronics and Telecommunications...
PolyU wins 3 ‘TechConnect Global Innovation Awards’ — the first and the only HK awardee
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The annual TechConnect World held in the US aims for supporting the development and...
NUS researchers create palm-size device for quick, effective treatment of hearing disorder
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel...
Atlas of the human planet 2017 — how exposed are we to natural hazards?
One out of three people in the world is exposed to earthquakes, a number which almost doubled in the past...
Can parents’ tech obsessions contribute to a child’s bad behavior?
Loading video... Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Fatigue. Hunger. Boredom. Those are often on the list of reasons...
KIT’s supercomputer is excellent in all respects
Credit: Photo: KIT The new supercomputer of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) not only is very fast, but also very...
High voltage for tomorrow’s particle accelerator
The most well-known use of high voltage pulses is in electric fences on farms. However, particle accelerators in large-scale research...
Three-dimensional graphene: Experiment at BESSY II shows that optical properties are tuneable
Credit: Nature Communications: 10.1038/ncomms14885 Carbon is a very versatile element. It not only forms diamonds, graphite, and coal, but can...
Using a genetic signature to overcome chemotherapy-resistant lung cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 23, 2017 - Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often respond to standard...
Revealed: How polyomavirus tricks our cells into helping it build its invasion route
Loading video... Credit: Tsai laboratory, University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every cell in our body runs like a...
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