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Saturn spacecraft toting CU Boulder instrument starts swan song
Credit: NASA April 26, 2017 - Toting a $12 million instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder, NASA's Cassini...
Stabilizing molecule could pave way for lithium-air fuel cell
ITHACA, N.Y. - Lithium-oxygen fuel cells boast energy density levels comparable to fossil fuels and are thus seen as a...
Move over, Superman! NIST method sees through concrete to detect early-stage corrosion
Credit: With Permission by Per Loll, Denmark When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow,...
2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting to showcase new discoveries in children’s health
SAN FRANCISCO - Leading experts will present thousands of original research abstracts in children's health at the 2017 Pediatric Academic...
Early evidence of Middle Stone Age projectiles found in South Africa’s Sibudu Cave
Credit: Rots et al (2017) Innovations in stone knapping technology during the South African Middle Stone Age enabled the creation...
Seeing is believing: Diamond quantum sensor reveals current flows in next-gen materials
Loading video... Credit: David A. Broadway/cqc2t.org Researchers at the University of Melbourne are the first in the world to image...
Bare bones: Making bones transparent
Credit: Science Translational Medicine, Greenbaum, Chan, et al; Gradinaru laboratory/Caltech Ten years ago, the bones currently in your body did...
Brain boot camp: New technology aims to accelerate learning
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison Engineering MADISON, Wisconsin -- The adage "put your thinking caps on" might evoke visions of an elementary...
Video captures bubble-blowing battery in action
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. -- With about three times the energy capacity by weight of today's lithium-ion...
UT Dallas researchers investigate technique to accelerate learning
Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas have been awarded a contract...
Illuminating the secret of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
Credit: Cassius V. Stevani/IQ-USP, Brazil Illuminating the Secret of Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms: Scientists now understand what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, which...
Newly prescribed sleeping pills increase risk of hip fracture
Older people newly prescribed sleeping pills like benzodiazepines and 'Z-drugs' have over double the odds of a hip fracture in...
Study offers new theoretical approach to describing non-equilibrium phase transitions
Credit: Vinokur/Galda/Argonne National Laboratory Imaginary numbers are a solution to a very real problem in a study published today in...
Tracking unstable chromosomes helps predict lung cancer’s return
Scientists have found that unstable chromosomes within lung tumours increases the risk of cancer returning after surgery, and have used...
Fighting cancer with immunotherapy: Signaling molecule causes regression of blood vessels
Credit: Image: Christian Friese / MDC Immunotherapy with T-cells offers great hope to people suffering from cancer. Some initial successes...
Light can improve perovskite solar cell performance
Credit: Michael Grätzel/EPFL Publishing in Nature, EPFL scientists show how light affects perovskite film formation in solar cells, which is...
Human forebrain circuits under construction — in a dish
Credit: Sergiu Pasca, M.D., Stanford University National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded neuroscientists have created a 3D window into the human...
Study signals need to screen genes for stem cell transplants
Regenerative medicine using human pluripotent stem cells to grow transplantable tissue outside the body carries the promise to treat a...
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Muifa in Northwestern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Tropical Storm Muifa continued to move through the open waters of the Northwestern Pacific...
Berkeley Lab scientists discover new atomically layered, thin magnet
Credit: Zhenglu Li/Berkeley Lab It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises,...