NSF grant supports center to develop microfluidics-based solutions
Credit: UIC media library The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center...
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Illinois professor recognized for passenger screening research after 9-11 attacks
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Computer Science As Professor Sheldon Jacobson watched the September 2001 terrorist attacks unfold, he was among the many Americans...
GPM satellite sees light rain occurring in Tropical Depression 33W’s eastern side
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite is providing data on rain rates within Tropical Cyclone 33W as it moves over...
Bending light around tight corners without backscattering losses
Credit: Natasha Litchinitser, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners...
Satellite finds Tropical Cyclone Bouchra reborn in Southern Indian Ocean
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone 04S, known as Bouchra formed in the Southern Indian Ocean during the week of Nov. 12 and by the end...
Four Argonne technologies receive 2018 R&D 100 Awards
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Four Argonne research projects have earned R&D 100 Awards, long considered the "Oscars" of scientific innovation. The elite competition, sponsored by...
Digital offense: Anonymity dulls our moral outrage
Washington, DC - From online forums to community groups, research and experience shows people are more willing to insult and use menacing language online than...
Cessation fatigue predicts which smokers making a quit attempt are likely to relapse
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina Although there is good news about smoking -- only 14 percent of Americans smoke, the lowest number...
‘Druggable’ cancer target found in pathway regulating organ size
Credit: Wei-Chien Yuan/Boston Children's Hospital It's known that cancer involves unchecked cell growth and that a biological pathway that regulates organ size, known at the...
Intelligent sprayers poised to transform nursery industry
Credit: A. Fulcher, courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Producers of landscape trees, shrubs, vines and perennials, all of which are known as nursery crops, are...
Human images from world’s first total-body scanner unveiled
Credit: UC Davis and Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body...
How the brain switches between different sets of rules
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Cognitive flexibility -- the brain's ability to switch between different rules or action plans depending on the context -- is key to...
Healthcare providers — not hackers — leak more of your data
Credit: PxHere - creative commons Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health...
Preserving shoulder function, quality of life, in breast cancer patients
ANN ARBOR--After a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2015, Tina Harrison discovered that she did, indeed, have breast cancer--it just hadn't been detected. Harrison, of Pinckney,...
Making X-ray microscopy 10 times faster
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Microscopes make the invisible visible. And compared to conventional light microscopes, transmission x-ray microscopes (TXM) can see into samples with much...
