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PowerPoint & LED projector enable new technique for self-folding origami
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Peking University have found a new...
New organic lasers one step closer to reality
Credit: Atula S. D. Sandanayaka and Willam J. Potscavage, Jr. New research could make lasers emitting a wide range of...
Discovery of a facile process for H2 production using ammonia as a carrier
Credit: Oita University Hydrogen (H2) has attracted considerable attention as a clean energy source because the only by-product of its...
Testosterone makes men less likely to question their impulses
Hotheaded, impulsive men who shoot first and ask questions later are a staple of Westerns and 1970s cop films, but...
Hybrid circuits can increase computational power of chaos-based systems
New research from North Carolina State University has found that combining digital and analog components in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits...
You and I can help climate researchers
(Umea University) A new citizen science project in Abisko in northern Sweden aims to teach the public how we do...
Key priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified
Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a...
Modern metabolic science yields better way to calculate indoor CO2
Credit: Michael E. Newman/NIST The air we breathe out can help us improve the quality of the air we breathe...
Symbiotic bacteria: From hitchhiker to beetle bodyguard
Credit: photo/©: Paul Gaube and Laura V. Flórez, JGU An international team of researchers have discovered a remarkable microbe with...
Why chemists marched for science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 -- Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and...
Introducing the 2017 Class of AGA Research Foundation awardees
Bethesda, MD (April 28, 2017) -- The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation is thrilled to award 52 researchers with...
Hubble’s bright shining lizard star
Credit: NASA/ Hubble ESA In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a...
Hybrid heterostructures with programmable potentials
Credit: P. Samori/Strasbourg Stacking thin layers of graphene and related materials (GRMs) leads to heterostructure devices with a variety of...
Antibiotics counteract the beneficial effect of whole grain
According to recommendations from the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, adult Danes should consume at least 75 g whole meal...
Further knowledge required about the differences between milk proteins
New knowledge on milk composition and quality is of essential importance to consumers as well as the industry. There are...
Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY -- The ability to pattern materials at ever-smaller sizes -- using electron-beam lithography (EBL),...
Two papers challenge exclusion of acupuncture in government guidelines
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017-- Even as news in the United States recently...
The world’s fastest film camera: When light practically stands still
Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a...
The swollen colon — cause of chronic inflammation discovered
Credit: Mainz University Medical Center Researchers at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Research...
AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of...
