Brains of the operation — NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions
Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the ...
UC researchers teach drones to land themselves on moving targets
Credit: UC Creative Services/Andrew Higley The buzzword in drone research is autonomous -- having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most ...
Direct-to-consumer genomics: Harmful or empowering?
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- Thanks to recent scientific advances and plunging costs in genetic sequencing, consumers now ...
Three layers of graphene reveals a new kind of magnet
Credit: Biswajit Datta, Mandar Deshmukh Metals have a large density of electrons and to be able to see the wave ...
AAV gene delivery vectors and cancer — The debate continues
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 23, 2017--Overwhelming evidence from the biomedical literature shows that adeno-associated ...
Sugar’s ‘tipping point’ link to Alzheimer’s disease revealed
Credit: AP Commercial Photography For the first time a "tipping point" molecular link between the blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer's ...
Official naming of surface features on Pluto and its satellites: First step approved
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute In 2015, in partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the ...
Researchers use laser-generated bubbles to create 3-D images in liquid
Credit: Kota Kumagai, Utsunomiya University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a completely new type of display that creates 3D images ...
Anti-aging gene identified as a promising therapeutic target for older melanoma patients
PHILADELPHIA -- (Feb. 23, 2017) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that an anti-diabetic drug can inhibit the ...
#Unfiltered: Instagram has become a haven for people making sensitive self-disclosures
Depression has a way of silencing its sufferers. Even in today's technology-connected society, people are hesitant to talk about their ...
Julia Hirschberg elected to the National Academy of Engineers
Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the ...
Liquid hydrogen may be way forward for sustainable air travel
Transport makes up around 20 percent of our energy use around the world--and that figure is set to grow, according ...
Impossible (but working!) recipe for ultrashort laser pulses
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Pulse lasers built entirely on optical fibers are increasingly readily being used by industry. Optical ...
Business Secretary Greg Clark announces £100m investment for new research institute
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) A major new £100 million investment by the government into the development of an ...
NASA-funded balloon recovered a year after flight over Antarctica
Credit: NASA Goddard/UC-Berkeley/Hazel Bain/Joy Ng, producer For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath ...
Minister Johnson unveils £128 million investment in Henry Royce Institute
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Today, Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, will confirm ...
Why is pancreatic cancer so hard to treat? Stroma provides new clues
Credit: Tuveson Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers have moved an important step closer to understanding why pancreatic ...
Tumor protein could hold key to pancreatic cancer survival
But research led by the University of Melbourne reported in the International Journal of Cancer, could eventually improve treatments with ...
43rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
The EBMT celebrates 60 years of medical innovations saving the lives of patients with blood cancers and other deadly diseases ...
Child’s vaccination data handily available via Kasvuseula service
Parents can now follow their tots' vaccinations via the Kasvuseula online service, which provides analytical data on the child's growth. ...
