Science
Imaging technology will offer new clues to embryonic development
Better understanding could lead to new prevention and treatment for birth defectsCredit: University of Houston Soon after conception, an embryo's...
First machine-generated book published
Cooperation between Applied Computational Linguistics lab of Goethe University and Springer Nature FRANKFURT. Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book,...
Using artificial intelligence to understand collective behavior
A machine learning model can reproduce the swarming behaviour of locusts -- collaborative research project between the Universities of Konstanz...
New quick-fix wrap by NTU and JTC can repair and reinforce existing structures
Credit: NTU Singapore By protecting concrete pillars with a ready-to-stick wrap developed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and...
From spinal cord injury to recovery
An essential role for neuronal feedback from below the site of injury Spinal cord injury disconnects communication between the brain...
Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection
Sheet pile driving robot autonomously builds erosion barriers from interlocking metal sheets in natural terrain, and robot swarms could be...
New biologically derived metal-organic framework mimics DNA
Credit: Peter G. Boyd/EPFL The field of materials science has become abuzz with "metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs), versatile compounds made up...
Researchers 3D print metamaterials with novel optical properties
Engineers create novel optical devices, including a moth eye-inspired omnidirectional microwave antennaCredit: Hojat Rezaei Nejad, Tufts University, Nano Lab MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE,...
Digging ancient signals out of modern human genomes
With new genome analysis tools, scientists have made significant advances in our understanding of modern humans' origins and ancient migrations....
Squeezed nanocrystals: A new model predicts their shape when blanketed under graphene
Credit: US Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern...
Successful test of the MONSTER spectrometer provided new nuclear structure information
Credit: University of Jyväskyla The research group was succesful in testing modular neutron spectrometer (MONSTER) at JYFL-ACCLAB. The beta decay...
UC professor’s startup promotes literacy through design
Reneé Seward's See Word Reading app is gaining traction in business and education fields across the city and globe Reneé...
Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries
Credit: Credits: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory/Emily Mason For five months in mid 2017, Emily Mason did the same thing every...
Warnings up in Western Australia as Suomi NPP satellite views Tropical Cyclone 23S
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Cyclone 23S has developed north of the...
Researchers discover CP violation in charm meson decays
Researchers from the Higher School of Economics and Yandex, as part of the LHCb collaboration at CERN, have been the...
When robots commit wrongdoing, people may incorrectly assign the blame
Last year, a self-driven car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. The woman's family is now suing Arizona...
Prototype in precision
Researchers develop high-resolution, high-sensitivity proximity capacitance imaging sensorCredit: Shigetoshi Sugawa, Tohoku University A finger print can serve as identification to...
SUTD uncovers the power of dynamically rewiring swarm robotic systems
Credit: SUTD Our world is filled with hopelessly complicated systems: transportation systems, financial systems, biological systems, etc. These so-called complex...
Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization, study finds
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A recent study of centuries-old French-Canadian genealogical data by a Brown University economist revealed evidence that supports...
32 million funding boost for Smart Cities research in Tallinn and Helsinki
Smart Cities Centre of Excellence to be establishedCredit: Mikko Raskinen Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and Aalto University, along with...
