Why you should care about better fiber optics
Fiber optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels -- and maybe better solar panelsCredit: Photo: Per Henning, NTNU...
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Reading with toddlers reduces harsh parenting, enhances child behavior
Credit: Rutgers University People who regularly read with their toddlers are less likely to engage in harsh parenting and the children are less likely to...
Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar power plants rely on sunlight....
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved...
Studying the function of liver cancer genes in mini-organs
Credit: Benedetta Artegiani, © Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Radboud University have developed a human model in which they use organoids, or...
Proof it’s possible to enhance or suppress memories
Boston University neuroscientist shows that stimulating different parts of the brain can dial up or down a specific memory's emotional oomphCredit: The Ramirez Group, Boston...
Sandia launches a bus into space
HOT SHOT sounding rocket program picks up flight paceCredit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories recently launched a bus into space. Not...
A ‘crisper’ method for gene editing in fungi
Scientists devise a novel genome editing method for filamentous fungi, based on the CRISPR/Cas9 platform CRISPR/Cas9 is now a household name associated with genetic engineering...
Young athletes may need one-year break after knee surgery
Credit: Photo by Magnus Beischer After surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, young athletes are now recommended to undergo at least a year's rehab...
Russian scientists discover one of the mechanisms of water formation on the moon
The discovery will help analyse the processes occurring near the lunar surface The results of recent study conducted by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the...
How does the nervous system create behavior? Muscle activity map in Hydra gives insight
Credit: John Szymanski WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Accomplishing perhaps a world first, researchers at Columbia University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have mapped the...
Could there be life without carbon? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 23, 2019 -- One element is the backbone of all forms of life we've ever discovered on Earth:...
$12.5 million grant funds ambitious collaboration shedding light on major diseases
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications A groundbreaking research collaboration at the University of Virginia School of Medicine that is shedding light on...
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because of their unique potential as...
Progress in hunt for unknown compounds in drinking water
When we drink a glass of water, we ingest an unknown amount of by-products that are formed in the treatment process. And we don't know...
