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Conch shells may inspire better helmets, body armor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The shells of marine organisms take a beating from impacts due to storms and tides, rocky shores,...
‘Tiny clocks’ crystallize understanding of meteorite crashes
Credit: Photo by Desmond Moser/Western University Almost two billion years ago, a 10-kilometre-wide chunk of space slammed down into rock...
CCNY-UTEP partner to produce next generation Latino professors
The City College of New York is partnering with the University of Texas at El Paso to educate the next...
Fungal enzymes team up to more efficiently break down cellulose
One of the biggest barriers in the commercial production of sustainable biofuels is to cost-effectively break down the bioenergy crops...
HIV patients sticking with therapy longer, Medicaid data show
With antiretroviral drugs, HIV has become a manageable chronic condition, but only so long as patients continue to take the...
No green light for latest traffic light app following expert evaluation
Credit: University of Huddersfield FROM sat-nav to automated parking and collision avoidance systems - cars are equipped with an increasing...
Tornado spawning Eastern US storms examined by NASA’s GPM satellite
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce On Wednesday May 24, 2017 severe weather affected a large area of the...
Strathclyde-led research develops world’s highest gain high-power laser amplifier
Credit: University of Strathclyde The world's highest gain high power laser amplifier - by many orders of magnitude - has...
New £3.5 million microscope and ion accelerator now operational
(University of Huddersfield) THE completion of a £3.5 million research facility means that the University of Huddersfield is established as...
New photocatalyst speeds up the conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical resources
Credit: DGIST DGIST's joint research team has developed a new titania photocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide into methane three times...
Nagoya University researchers break down plastic waste
Credit: Nagoya Univesity Nagoya, Japan - What to do proteins and Kevlar have in common? Both feature long chain molecules...
Laptops and tablets in the classroom: How to integrate electronic devices in the university
Researchers from the University of Seville have published the study "To take or not to take the laptop or tablet...
Argonne scientists make vanadium into a useful catalyst for hydrogenation
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Just as Cinderella turned from a poor teenager into a magnificent princess with the aid of...
Self-healing catalyst films for hydrogen production
Chemists at the Centre for Electrochemical Sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a catalyst with self-healing properties. Under the challenging...
Bioelectricity new weapon to fight dangerous infection
Credit: Jean-Francois Pare/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (May 26, 2017, 5 a.m. EDT)--Changing the natural electrical signaling that exists in cells...
Designer viruses stimulate the immune system to fight cancer
Credit: © UNIGE / Doron Merkler Swiss scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the University of Basel...
Study takes step toward mass-producible quantum computers
Quantum computers are experimental devices that offer large speedups on some computational problems. One promising approach to building them involves...
Researchers studying century-old drug in potential new approach to autism
Credit: Science Museum, London. In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego...
Genetic test for anal cancer could identify those at high risk
A new test, based on a patient's epigenetics*, could be an accurate and inexpensive way to find and treat those...
Penn State DNA ladders: Inexpensive molecular rulers for DNA research
Credit: Penn State University New, license-free DNA ladders will allow researchers to estimate the size of fragments of DNA for...
