Whiteflies provide insight into stabilizing manmade drones during takeoff
When whiteflies take off, they don't just spread their wings and fly. Just .03 of an inch long, these tiny insects possess a variety of...
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Potentially explosive methane gas mobile in groundwater, poses safety risk: U of G study
Credit: G360 - University of Guelph Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk, according...
Predicting the limits of friction: Sandia looks at properties of material
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing. Friction will destroy pistons in...
Algorithms can exploit human perception in graph design
Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Aalto University Algorithms can now exploit models and measures of human perception to generate scatterplot designs. Scatterplots are...
Sonochemistry: New opportunities for green chemistry
Credit: World Scientific How does the use of ultrasound affect chemical reactions? Can scientific advancement and environmental sustainability go hand in hand? The importance of...
Love it or hate it: Marmite may affect brain function
Scientists at the University of York have discovered a potential link between eating Marmite and activity in the brain, through the apparent increase of a...
Carbon nanotubes self-assemble into tiny transistors
Credit: Arjen Kamp Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle. University of Groningen scientists, together...
Breakthrough telescope to map origins of stars, galaxies and the ‘cosmic dawn’
Credit: Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany ITHACA, N.Y. - A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed...
No sugar coating, but sweet nonetheless
Credit: Source: Christian Böhler, Maria Asplund Complex neurotechnological devices are required to directly select and influence brain waves inside the skull's interior. Although it has...
73% of academics say access to research data helps them in their work; 34% do not publish their data
Combining results from bibliometric analyses, a global sample of researcher opinions and case-study interviews, a new report reveals that although the benefits of open research...
Phase II trial: Rice bran adds microbiome diversity, slows growth of colon cancer cells
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017, University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers at Colorado...
Cancer burden for aging US HIV population projected to shift
CHAPEL HILL - As the population of people living with HIV in the United States ages, the burden of cancer for these patients is expected...
Young researchers head to Capitol Hill to advocate for science
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 5, 2017 - Young scientists from colleges and universities across the United States will arrive on Capitol Hill on Thursday to talk...
Charting the skies of history
Credit: Kyoto University/NASA/TNM Japan -- Ice cores and ancient sediments can be gleaned for clues to weather and climate in the past. But astronomical phenomena...
A novel method for the fabrication of active-matrix 3-D pressure sensors
Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has created a three-dimensional, tactile sensor that could detect wide pressure ranges from human body weight to...
