Research measures potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, ...
New technology could end costly crude oil pipeline blockages
Credit: Yao et al., 2015, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston Getting crude oil from the wellhead to its ...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2017
Credit: Zhijia Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy COMPUTING - Quantum deep In a first for deep learning, an ...
UTA assistant professor awarded APS’s Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award
Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, assistant professor of Physics at The University of Texas at ...
Domesticated rice goes rogue
Credit: Ken Olsen A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals ...
Study ids ways to encourage ‘refuge’ planting, slowing resistance to bt crops
A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of "refuge" cropland being planted ...
Unique experiment set to reveal the effects of climate change on the forests of the future
Credit: Norbury Estate A major new decade-long experiment by scientists at the University of Birmingham to study the impact of ...
Yale program empowering leaders in tropics receives $4.9 million Arcadia Grant
The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a Yale-based program that makes the latest tools and research in forest restoration ...
Tiny plankton wields biological ‘gatling gun’ in microbial Wild West
Credit: Photo: Urban Tillmann. Researchers have obtained an unprecedented view of the 'ballistic' weaponry of planktonic microbes, including one that ...
Multi-university effort to advance materials, define the future of mobility
Credit: Image: Photostock. Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science ...
Blood vessels and the immune system talk to each other; implications for cancer treatment
Credit: Baylor Colleg of Medicine Some cancer therapies aim at stopping tumor growth by affecting the blood vessels that nurture ...
Early climate ‘payback’ with higher emission reductions
Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below ...
Photonic crystal and nanowire combo advances ‘photonic integration’
Credit: Takigucki et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2017 -- Contrary to the tremendous success story of electronic integration, photonic ...
Tiny black holes enable a new type of photodetector for high speed data
Loading video... Credit: Saif Islam, UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tiny "black holes" on a silicon wafer ...
Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making ...
Jumping droplets whisk away hotspots in electronics
Loading video... Credit: Chuan-Hua Chen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance ...
Artificial pancreas improves blood sugar control in young kids
ORLANDO--An artificial pancreas, which delivers insulin in an automated way to individuals with type 1 diabetes, appears to be safe ...
Stretching the boundaries of neural implants
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in ...
New report links early life antibiotic use to inflammatory gut diseases in adulthood
A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology involving mice shows that antibiotic use very early in life ...
Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can ...
