Biologists developing global citizen network to monitor insect abundance
A University of Arkansas scientist is part of an international team working to establish a network to track dragonflies and damselfliesCredit: Simon Tye A U...
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Legacy high performance computing system seeds supercomputing excellence at UT Dallas
TACC's Stampede1 helps form core of campus cluster, increases access throughout TexasCredit: UT Dallas What happens to supercomputers after their productive life at an academic...
NASA finds wind shear not letting up on Tropical Storm Vicky
Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA/NRL NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of Tropical Storm Vicky as it continued moving through the eastern North Atlantic Ocean fighting...
Women hold prominent roles, publish more in ‘open science’ vs. ‘reproducibility’ model
Analyses reveal that two common practices to improve science - 'open science' and 'reproducibility / replicability' - operate independently and that collaborative, prosocial 'open science'...
One in 10 older dental patients inappropriately prescribed opioids
Combinations with psychiatric meds among most dangerousCredit: UIC/Joshua Clark A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh...
Major NSF grant accelerates development of the Giant Magellan Telescope
One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding of the universe at first...
Accurate labels like ‘aerosol’ or ‘chemicals’ increase perceived risks of e-cigarette use
George Mason study reveals that labeling e-cigarette emissions as 'chemicals' or 'aerosols' rather than 'vapor' increases the perceived risk of exposure; higher perceived risk is...
Nicotine vapour more rewarding for adolescents than adults
Credit: University of Guelph University of Guelph researchers are the first to discover that adolescents react differently to e-cigarette vapour than adults. Led by Prof....
MTU and Argonne engineers improve signal processing for small fiber optic cables
Credit: Miguel Levy/Michigan Tech Optical signals produced by laser sources are extensively used in fiber-optic communications, which work by pulsing information packaged as light through...
A quantum thermometer for measuring ultra-cold temperatures
Researchers show that a quantum sensor using a single atom can accurately measure the coldest places in the universeCredit: OIST In everyday life, measuring temperature...
Immunotherapy: Enhancing the therapeutic effectiveness of photothermal cancer treatments
Credit: by Zhongjian Xie, Minhua Peng, Ruitao Lu, Xiangying Meng, Weiyuan Liang, Zhongjun Li, Meng Qiu, Bin Zhang, Guohui Nie, Ni Xie, Han Zhang &...
Rapid 3D printing with visible light
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00929 3D printing has driven innovations in fields ranging from art to aerospace to medicine. However, the...
Metalloxocubes: A new class of neutral Co13O8 clusters with cubic aromaticity
Credit: ©Science China Press Building materials with a clear composition and stable structure is one of the primary challenges in chemistry and cluster science. Ongoing...
Device could help detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01628 Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures that call it home, different...
Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge
Credit: Lau et al. With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including the Subaru Telescope, a team...