UH Physicist launches new journal for materials science
Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for ...
IT Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems
Credit: Saarland University These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically ...
Researchers make headway toward understanding Alexander disease
Credit: Waisman Center/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery ...
NASA spots sub-tropical storm 11S still swirling
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly ...
Study links sulfide-producing bacteria and colon cancer in African-Americans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the ...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation ...
Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the air
(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University ...
Researchers discover star in closest known orbit around black hole
An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate ...
Visualizing debris disk ‘roller derby’ to understand planetary system evolution
Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring ...
Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen probes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were ...
NASA’s webb telescope ghostly ‘lights out’ inspection
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently ...
World-first surveillance strategy shaped by Stirling expertise
Credit: University of Stirling The operation of surveillance cameras is the subject of a new UK strategy, shaped by a ...
Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for ele
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from ...
Mapping the effects of crystal defects
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations -- a common type of defect in materials -- ...
Biochemists develop new way to control cell biology with light
Credit: Robert Campbell Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a new method of controlling biology at the cellular ...
Quantum key system could make mobile transactions far more secure
Credit: Iris Choi, Oxford University WASHINGTON -- With the growing popularity of mobile phone apps to pay for purchases at ...
Protostar blazes bright, reshaping its stellar nursery
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Hunter; C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); GLIMPSE, NASA/JPL-Caltech A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled ...
When the sea ice melts, juvenile polar cod may go hungry
Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for ...
Civil society participation key in international forestry programs in Laos
The participation of civil society organisations in the international REDD+ programmes seeking to reduce deforestation, forest degradation and CO² emissions ...
Some bed bugs are better climbers than others
Credit: Journal of Economic Entomology Annapolis, MD; March 8, 2017 -- Not all bed bugs are created equal, and some ...
