Science
NASA funds aviation research on a new fuel concept
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Aerospace Engineering Researchers at the University of Illinois are leading a newly...
BTI scientists create new genomic resource for improving tomatoes
Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute published a tomato pan-genome in Nature Genetics, finding nearly 5,000 new genes and establishing a...
Quantum world-first: researchers reveal accuracy of two-qubit calculations in silicon
Credit: UNSW Sydney For the first time ever, researchers have measured the fidelity - that is, the accuracy - of...
Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified
Advanced imaging technologies observe one brain area's ability to rapidly sense our surroundings; lays groundwork for improvements to machine learning...
Human gut microbiome physiology can now be studied in vitro using Organ Chip technology
Anaerobic human Intestine Chip supports complex gut microbiome under low oxygen, enabling direct investigations of health and disease-related human-microbiome interactionsCredit:...
Could locking all household guns reduce youth suicides, unintentional firearm deaths?
Bottom Line: An increase in the number of firearm owners who live with children who lock up all their household guns...
New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest
URBANA, Ill. - Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland...
Texting while driving common among millennial, older parents
Bottom Line: A distracted driving survey of millennial parents (ages 22 to 37) and older parents (37 and up) shows...
How acoustics detected artillery in WWI
The story of how World War I brought a military decoration for William Lawrence Bragg, the youngest person ever to...
Naval Research Laboratory builds autopilot software allowing UAVs to soar on thermals
Businesses can acquire Navy technology through patent license agreementsCredit: Naval Research Laboratory A Navy scientist has re-engineered the software that...
New UM study highlights fundamental challenges of living with wildfire
Wildfires can have dramatic impacts on Western landscapes and communities, but human values determine whether the changes caused by fire...
New study shows scientists who selfie garner more public trust
Credit: Scientific illustration by: Jen Burgess @isolinestudios BATON ROUGE - Many scientists today have embraced social media as tools to...
Nanotubes enable travel of Huntington’s protein
Rhes protein makes its own road to convey disease driversCredit: Courtesy Scripps Research JUPITER, Fla.--May 10, 2019--A toxic protein linked...
NASA Northern quadrant strength in Tropical Cyclone Lili
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in Tropical Cyclone Lili as it...
Better microring sensors for optical applications
Credit: Ramy El-Ganainy and Qi Zhong Optical sensing is one of the most important applications of light science. It plays...
A surprising experiment opens the path to new particle manipulation methods
Unexpected result from acoustics experiment could have applications in biomedical and microsystems researchCredit: Aalto University Researchers at Aalto University have...
People more likely to trust machines than humans with their private information
GLASGOW, Scotland -- Not everyone fears our machine overlords. In fact, according to Penn State researchers, when it comes to...
2D insulators with ferromagnetism are rare; researchers just identified a new one
Credit: Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy Collaborating scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory,...
Believing machines can out-do people may fuel acceptance of self-driving cars
GLASGOW, Scotland -- In order for self-driving cars to hit the streets, more people may need to concede that machines...
A dance of two: Tailoring interactions between remote fluids of excitons
Credit: Paulo V. Santos, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Ronen Rapaport An international collaboration involving European, Israeli, and US scientists realize for...