A University of California San Diego engineering professor has solved one of the biggest mysteries in geophysics: What causes deep-focus earthquakes?Credit: Xanthippi Markenscoff These mysterious...
Credit: Tokyo Tech Biologists use the term adaptive radiation to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from an ancestral species, often in...
Credit: IPK / Eva Siebenhühner Organ development in plants mostly occurs through combinatorial activity of so-called meristems. Meristems are plant cells or tissues that give...
Long-term weather data is absent in many places, complicating rain predictions for crops. Researchers found that the El Niño climate cycle can be a reliable...
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the team, including Jennifer Munson, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Institute at VTC, $3.75 million to...
Sandia tech transfer expert garners national awardCredit: Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Licensing expert Bob Westervelt, who has worked to transfer...
A new study is the first to examine the relationship between the supply of green spaces and reduced disparity in infectious disease rates.Credit: Photos courtesy...
Credit: Zachary Freyberg PITTSBURGH, April 28, 2021 - It is not every day that scientists come across a phenomenon so fundamental that it is observed...
Credit: Jakoah Brgoch To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the...
The acidity of molecules can be easily determined, but until now it was not possible to measure this important property for atoms on a surface....
University of Houston researcher to develop culturally responsive vaccine education programCredit: University of Houston With COVID-19 vaccines more readily available than ever, there remains vaccine...
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe's expansion rate, helping to resolve a...
Credit: Chris Birmingham, CC BY 2.0 The flightless kakapo of New Zealand is in trouble. The world's heaviest parrot--representing one of the most ancestral branches...
Credit: Vince St. Dollente Mesias, Jinqing Huang / The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology It is challenging to analyze proteins at low concentrations,...
Scientists characterized how these states depend on local chemical composition, narrowing the search for where to look compositionally to enable quantum computingCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory...
