Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars
MADISON, Wis. -- Developing renewable, plant-based alternatives for petroleum-derived chemicals is a major piece of the effort to transition away from a fossil-fuel based economy...
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New holographic technique opens the way for quantum computation
Credit: F. Carbone/EPFL Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is also a wave, and is therefore characterized...
Paul Sajda awarded DoD’s Vannevar Bush Fellowship
Credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering New York, NY--May 2, 2019--Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, has been awarded the Vannevar...
Bottom-up approach can synthesize microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Scientists are excited about diamonds -- not the types that adorn jewelry, but the microscopic variety that are less than...
Research shows cattle ranching could help conserve rare African antelope, lions
Credit: Douglas Kamaru Endangered African antelope and the lions that prey on them may benefit from certain cattle ranching practices in Kenya, according to newly...
First demonstration of antimatter wave interferometry
Credit: © LHEP / AEC, University of Bern Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have wave properties in addition to...
What the wheat genome tells us about wars
Credit: © Nature Genetics - Pont/Duchemin/Armisen First they mapped the genome of wheat; now they have reconstructed its breeding history. Joining forces with other European...
Nanoscale thermometers from diamond sparkles
A novel, non-invasive technique that uses quantum light to measure temperature at the nanoscale has been developed Being able to measure, and monitor, temperatures and...
Tiny droplets open the doors to in-flight imaging of proteins
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the creation of a beam of nanodroplets capable of delivering a variety of biological samples, from cell organelles...
RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus
Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of technology has developed a prototype...
NASA reveals heavy rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Fani
Credit: NASA/JAXA/Jacob Ree Satellite data revealed heavy rainfall in powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani before it made landfall in northeastern India. Fani brought that soaking rain...
New approach could accelerate efforts to catalogue vast numbers of cells
Data-sampling method makes 'sketches' of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types Artistic sketches can be used to capture details...
Army pushes for higher speeds in future tiltrotor aircraft
Credit: David McNally HAMPTON, Va. -- The U.S. Army is developing a new wind-tunnel testbed that will help future tiltrotor aircraft attain higher speeds, improved...
Induced labor not more expensive to health care system than spontaneous labor
Upfront cost of inducing labor at 39 weeks is equal to costs that accrue during longer pregnancies. Expectant parents wait 40 weeks for the arrival...
Stickier than expected: Hydrogen binds to graphene in 10 femtoseconds
Bound for only ten quadrillionths of a secondCredit: Oliver Bünermann / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry & University of Göttingen Graphene is celebrated as...
