Songbirds, like people, sing better after warming up
A burst of song early in the morning may help birds nail their songs during the dayCredit: Photo by Robert Lachlan, Royal Holloway, University of...
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A scientific approach to education reform
Challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education; Sanjay Sarma's new book points a wayCredit: M. Scott Brauer CAMBRIDGE, MA...
Army researchers explore self-healing materials
Credit: (Courtesy Texas A&M University ) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army and Texas A&M University researchers developed a new material that can autonomously heal...
OCT-based technique captures subtle details of photoreceptor function
New instrument paves the way to earlier detection and treatment of diseases that cause blindnessCredit: Mehdi Azimipour, UC Davis Eye Center. WASHINGTON -- Researchers have...
UTA working with Navy on high-voltage insulators
UTA researcher working with Navy on high-voltage energy storage, pulsed power systemsCredit: UT Arlington David Wetz, a professor of electrical engineering at The University of...
Cryo-EM study yields new clues to chicken pox infection
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Despite decades of study, exactly how herpesviruses invade our cells remains something of a mystery. Now researchers studying one...
NASA-NOAA satellite snaps image of tropical storm Higos in South China Sea
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a...
Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data
Results provide insight into fundamental earthquake physics and suggest slow-slip earth rupture might be predictableCredit: Galyna Andrushko/Shutterstock.com LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 18, 2020--Combing through historical...
Cold-weather accounts for almost all temperature-related deaths
Credit: UIC/Roberta Dupuis-Devlin With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise...
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs well
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, Grainger Engineering In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can be used both in high-thrust...
Concordia student maps global primate habitat endangered by climate change
Brogan Stewart demonstrates how territory home to hundreds of species of monkeys, apes and prosimians is being lost due to warming temperaturesCredit: Images courtesy Brogan...
Research story tip: Horse skeletons provide clues to preventing racehorse injuries
Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain images for the horse leg and bone, and a racehorse photo courtesy of M.J....
This ‘Cold Tube’ can beat the summer heat without relying on air conditioning
Chilled panels use less energy than conventional A/C and work in open spacesCredit: Lea Ruefenacht Many people beat the summer heat by cranking the air...
Ratio of two proteins may add kidneys to the transplant donor pool
Credit: Graphic by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain image of kidney courtesy of www.medicalgraphic.de and data from www.organdonor.gov (U.S. Department of Health...
Heart attack damage reduced by shielded stem cells
Stem cell capsules implanted on heart surface improve function in four weeksCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 18, 2020) - Bioengineers and surgeons from...