Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for...
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Targeting mechanosensitive protein could treat pulmonary fibrosis, study suggests
Credit: ©2021 Qu et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202033 Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have identified a new...
FAU researchers receive prestigious NSF CAREER awards
Researchers represent the College of Engineering and Computer ScienceCredit: Florida Atlantic University Two researchers from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science have...
Study provides evidence that bone marrow cell injections help heal the brain after stroke
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Results of a clinical trial released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine provide evidence that treating patients with an injection...
Porous, ultralow-temperature supercapacitors could power Mars, polar missions
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA's Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on a two-year mission to seek...
UTA researchers investigating ‘smart’ helmets that could detect brain injuries
Protective gear for the battlefield and beyondCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is investigating the capabilities of "smart" protective helmets that...
Warming climate slows tropical birds’ population growth rates
30-year study in Tanzania shows temperature-linked population declines in species important to forestsCredit: Monte Neate-Clegg The mountain forests of Tanzania are more than 9,300 miles...
Immune cell implicated in development of lung disease following viral infection
Findings could help explain how asthma, COPD, severe COVID-19 are triggeredCredit: Holtzman Lab Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have implicated...
Army gets boost from world’s largest, fastest metal powder 3D printer
Credit: Clemson University ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A new technology will speed up development of 3D-printed components for a variety of Army applications. The...
Study finds brain’s ‘wiring insulation’ as major factor of age-related brain deterioration
Credit: Dr Andrea Rivera A new study led by the University of Portsmouth has identified that one of the major factors of age-related brain deterioration...
Georgia Tech receives $2.2M in Toyota Research Institute robotics funding
Research projects to advance autonomous driving testbed, human-robot collaborationCredit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of 16 academic institutions selected...
Both old and young fish sustain fisheries
Credit: Phil Woodhead, Wet Image Underwater Photography. Scientists have used modern genetic techniques to prove age-old assumptions about what sizes of fish to leave in...
Sushi-like rolled 2D heterostructures may lead to new miniaturized electronics
Credit: ELIZABETH FLORES-GOMEZ MURRAY/ PENN STATE The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made by layering two-dimensional materials that...
Microscope allows ultrafast nanoscale manipulation while tracking energy dynamics
Credit: Yokohama National University Since the early 2010s, ultrafast probing of materials at atomic-level resolution has been enabled by terahertz scanning tunneling microscopes (THz-STM). But...
Now is the time to study impact of pandemic on mothers and babies
University of Houston researcher issues a call for new methods to combat stress and social isolationCredit: University of Houston If past natural disasters have taught...
