ASU collects 5 solar awards in latest round of DOE funding
ASU continues to keep solar shining in Phoenix Metro areaCredit: Deanna Dent/ASU Now Arizona State University has received five prestigious Department of Energy awards totaling...
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A better understanding of soft artificial muscles
Research sheds light on the underlying mechanics of soft filamentsCredit: (Video courtesy of Nicholas Charles/Harvard SEAS) Artificial muscles will power the soft robots and wearable...
How to build a chloroplast
Plants use a single communication route when developing new chloroplastsCredit: Image by PhotoMIX Ltd. No copyright. No credit required. https://www.pexels.com/photo/closeup-photo-of-sprout-1002703/ Researchers in Japan and the...
Training collaboration launched between Wistar & Leiden University Medical Center
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Nov. 15, 2019) -- The Wistar Institute and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) formalized a memorandum of understanding between...
CSU lands $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new tuberculosis vaccine
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography A team of researchers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University aim to advance what...
NASA gets an eyeful of Typhoon Fengshen
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Fengshen after its eye opened as Fengshen had strengthened from a tropical storm...
NASA looks at Tropical Depression Kalmaegi’s water vapor concentration
Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Philippine Sea, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of Tropical Depression Kalmaegi. NASA's Aqua...
NASA identifies new eastern pacific tropical storm
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of developing Tropical Storm Raymond in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. On Nov. 14, the MODIS...
New US Army software rapidly converts live drone video into 2D and 3D maps
Software-only solution creates maps in a matter of minutes, allowing locally collected video to be processed into immediately usable geospatial products that can be fed...
Vaping less harmful than smoking for vascular health, major study finds
Study finds significant improvements in vascular health of chronic smokers who transition to e-cigarettesCredit: Dominic Glasgow / University of Dundee Study finds significant improvements in...
Hot electrons harvested without tricks
Credit: Maxim Pchenitchnikov, University of Groningen Semiconductors convert energy from photons (light) into an electron current. However, some photons carry too much energy for the...
Mild Zika infection in fetuses may cause brain abnormalities in young despite no symptoms
Credit: University of Saskatchewan Using a relevant animal model (pigs), University of Saskatchewan researchers have shown that mild Zika virus infection in fetuses can cause...
Scientists develop near ambient pressure photoemission electron microscopy based on tunable deep-ultraviolet laser source
Credit: Image by LIU Wansheng A research group led by Prof. FU Qiang and Prof. BAO Xinhe at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP)...
Water could modulate the activity and selectivity of CO2 reduction
Credit: ©Science China Press As an alternative to the depletion of fossil resources, the reduction of CO2 emitted from fossil fuel combustion into valuable chemicals...
Near-infrared electrochromism of a new multilayered complex
Credit: ©Science China Press Electrochromic films that display reversible spectral and color changes in response to electric or electrochemical stimulus are highly useful in a...
