DNA is held together by hydrophobic forces
Credit: Illustration: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, disprove the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is...
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Keren Bergman wins $4.8M DARPA grant
Grant supports the development of a new class of on-chip optical interconnects that scale performance without increasing energy costsCredit: Barbara Alper/Columbia Engineering Grant supports the...
CPRIT awards $11 million to UTHealth for cancer research, prevention
Credit: Photo by Dwight Andrews/ McGovern Medical School Five innovative cancer-fighting projects at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) received just...
Lab develops novel approach to study sound recognition in acoustically orienting animals
The St. Olaf College team's findings on song recognition in the fly Ormia ochracea are part of special on 'How Enemies Shape Communication Systems' published...
Diagnostic radiologists with lifetime ABR certificates less likely to participate in MOC
American Journal of Roentgenology research determines lifetime-certified diagnostic radiologists whose Maintenance of Certification was not mandated by the American Board of Radiology were far less...
Chinese scientists develop novel biophotovoltaics system
Credit: Image from LI Yin's group, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Anthropologist contributes to major study of large animal extinction
Research published in Science explains the effect of human-influenced mass extinction of giant carnivores and herbivores from North America.Credit: University of Arkansas / University Relations...
NASA catches Tropical Storm Tapah by the tail
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Tapah has a huge "tail" on NASA satellite imagery. NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the northwestern Pacific...
NASA finds a tiny tropical storm Kiko
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite is one in a fleet of NASA satellites that provide data for research. Terra captured an image of...
Super computing
UD professor's team chosen to develop apps for Oak Ridge National Laboratory computerCredit: Photo courtesy of Sunita Chandrasekaran | Illustration by Joy Smoker Leading the...
NASA data shows Humberto now post-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Satellite data has confirmed that Humberto, once a major hurricane is now a...
DOE awards Argonne $4.15 million for research in quantum computing and networking
Credit: Image by Ruslan Shaydulin, Ilya Safro and Jeffrey Larson. Multistart methods for quantum approximate optimization. To appear in: Proceedings of the IEEE High Performance...
NASA estimates Imelda’s extreme rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA Goddard NASA estimated extreme rainfall over eastern Texas from the remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda using a NASA satellite rainfall product that...
Evolution of learning is key to better artificial intelligence
Credit: Michigan State University Since "2001: A Space Odyssey," people have wondered: could machines like HAL 9000 eventually exist that can process information with human-like...
Hurricane Jerry gets its temperature taken by NASA-NOAA satellite
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the North Atlantic Ocean and used infrared light to obtain temperature information about Hurricane Jerry's cold...
