What do dragonflies teach us about missile defense?
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit fly or maybe a mosquito,...
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Closing the terahertz gap: Tiny laser is an important step toward new sensors
Credit: Sterczewski et al. In a major step toward developing portable scanners that can rapidly measure molecules in pharmaceuticals or classify tissue in patients' skin,...
Insilico Medicine to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019
Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, to present at the XPOMET Medicinale Festival 2019 in Berlin on October 10thCredit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday,...
Found: Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
Credit: Caltech/IPAC Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter (84-inch) telescope at the National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
Visits to the dentist decline in old age, especially among minorities
Study also finds disparities in adult dental visits by race, immigration Visits to the dentist drop significantly after adults turn 80, finds a new study...
Developing technologies that run on light
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and...
High blood pressure treatment and nursing home residents
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society research summary Although 27 percent of all older adults who live in nursing homes in this country have both...
Suomi NPP satellite sees Tropical Depression Dalila fading
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of weakening Tropical Depression Dalila in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Suomi NPP passed over...
Designed protein switch allows unprecedented control over living cells
From modifying gene expression to cell signaling, dynamic designer proteins may usher in a new era of synthetic biologyCredit: UW Medicine Scientists have created the...
Study to explore accessibility of talk therapy treatment for new mothers is underway
The departments of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine are collaborating on a large-scale, $13.2 million PCORI-funded perinatal psychiatry trial...
Skoltech scientists developed a novel method to fine-tune the properties of carbon nanotubes
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials (CPQM) have developed a novel method to fine-tune the optoelectrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes...
Findings from CARE Consortium added to global repository for brain injury data
Credit: IU School of Medicine Data from the world's most comprehensive concussion study is now publicly available in a repository aimed at providing traumatic brain...
NASA’s Terra sees the end of Atlantic Tropical Depression 3
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview The third tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season didn't last long. NASA's Terra satellite provided an image of the...
New research has potential for ‘unpacking’ complex simultaneous emotions in adolescence
Shows for the first time that complex, mixed simultaneous emotions in adolescents could be assessed using an Analogue Emotion Scale Potential to supplement traditional emotional...
Penn engineers’ ‘LADL’ uses light to serve up on-demand genome folding
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Every cell in your body has a copy of your genome, tightly coiled and packed into its nucleus. Since every copy...
