Pitt engineer receives $500K award to investigate potentially harmful man-made chemicals
Carla Ng will use the NSF CAREER award to study the health and environmental impact of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances and identify ways to...
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An easier way to engineer plants
MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplastsCredit: The researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a new genetic tool that could...
Salisbury Award launched by National Foundation for Cancer Research
New program widens NFCR's translational research scope, honors family's contributions ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) last Thursday, February 21st, launched...
Documenting and decoding the dynamics between work and pain
A special issue of WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation looks at factors around the experience and management of pain in workplaces around...
Super Typhoon Wutip’s 25 mile-wide eye seen by NASA-NOAA satellite
Credit: NOAA/NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Wutip has strengthened into a powerful super typhoon and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP...
High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones
Credit: McKelvey School of Engineering The transportation industry is one of the largest consumers of energy in the U.S. economy with increasing demand to make...
New protein ‘switch’ could be key to controlling blood-poisoning and preventing death
Scientists at the University of British Columbia have discovered a new protein "switch" that could stop the progression of blood-poisoning, or sepsis, and increase the...
A new spin in nano-electronics
HZDR researchers succeed in controlling extremely short-wavelength spin wavesCredit: HZDR / Juniks In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only:...
Bristol undergraduate reconstructs the skulls of 2 species of ancient reptile
Credit: Image by Sophie Chambi-Trowell. Using two partially fragmented fossil skulls, a student at the University of Bristol has digitally reconstructed, in three-dimensions, the skulls...
UVA discovers secret to making immune cells better cancer killers
Finding could also let doctors predict how patients will respond to treatmentCredit: Dan Addison | University Communications Scientists at the University of Virginia School of...
Physicists from ITMO University experimentally investigated new class of resonators
The physicists from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute and the Australian National University examined a new mechanism of realization of high-quality optical resonators. It is based...
A very human machine
New brain implants disguise as neurons, offering a potentially safer way to study and treat the brainCredit: Xiao Yang (Lieber Lab) Like a well-guarded fortress,...
Urban parks could make you happier
Credit: UAB Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Occupational Therapy have published new findings that suggest spending 20 minutes in an...
Scientists lay foundation for single-cell level understanding of DNA replication
In all living organisms, proliferating cells go through the fundamental process of DNA replication. Through this process, they faithfully duplicate their DNA and divide into...
Breakthrough shines light on disease-fighting protein
Credit: Grigore Pintilie / Stanford University X-ray and electron microscopy techniques help unfold the story of protein chaperones. A combination of X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron...
