UCI-led team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials
Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failureCredit: Jens Bauer and Cameron Crook / UCI Irvine, Calif., March 11, 2021...
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NIH awards grants to support bacteriophage therapy research
"Phage" therapies offer potential strategy to combat antibacterial resistanceCredit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of...
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble finds
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may...
Wing tags severely impair flight in African Cape Vultures
Study urges the use of leg bands for marking individuals instead of wing tagsCredit: VulPro Conservationists who apply wing tags for identifying Cape Vultures--a species...
Tracking cosmic ghosts
Frontera supercomputer, a community resource for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research, enables the discovery of new high-energy particleCredit: IceCube Collaboration The idea was so far-fetched it...
A new model predicts snakebites to save human lives
Tel Aviv University participates in international studyCredit: Tel Aviv University About 1.8 million envenoming snakebites occur around the world annually, killing about 94,000 people. In...
Contactless high performance power transmission
Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt rangeCredit: Christoph Utschick / Wuerth Elektronik eiSos A team led by Christoph Utschick and Prof. Rudolf...
Marjoram supports health and weight gain in carps, say biologist from RUDN University
Credit: RUDN University Biologists from RUDN University suggested adding a marjoram-based supplement to the diet of common carp to support the growth of the fish...
Breakthrough lays groundwork for future quantum networks
Credit: Nancy Wong, University of Chicago RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- New Army-funded research could help lay the groundwork for future quantum communication networks and...
Pandemic emphasizes need for digital literacy education
Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Parents would never give their children the keys to the car without supervised training and driver's education. An...
Capturing all of light’s data in one snapshot
$7.5 million Department of Defense project to create a 'super camera'Credit: Mark Brongersma, Stanford DURHAM, N.C. - Engineers at Duke University are leading a nationwide...
New study provides detailed view of how hepatitis B virus establishes chronic infection
The research offers potential strategies for development of new treatmentsCredit: Image by Stephanie Maya, Princeton University Researchers at Princeton have determined how five cellular proteins...
A monumental particle accelerator in the Cygnus Cocoon
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN / HAWC At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer sky, beats a source of...
How the habitability of exoplanets is influenced by their rocks
Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Jenny Leibundgut The conditions on Earth are ideal for life. Most places on our planet are...
Heine H. Hansen Award: J. Vansteenkiste and F. Blackhall honored for lung cancer research
Credit: ESMO credit Lugano, Switzerland; Denver, CO, USA, 11 March 2021 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the...