Experiments call origin of Earth’s iron into question
Credit: Designed by Laura Martin/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. Images 1 and 2 from NASA/JPL-Caltech, Image 3 from X-Science, Earth...
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Waste silicon sawdust recycled into anode for lithium-ion battery
Credit: Hirotomo Nishihara Researchers have created a high performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using waste silicon (Si) sawdust. It is energy-consuming and expensive...
Understanding ‘glass relaxation’ and why it’s important for next-generation displays
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2017 -- Next-generation displays will feature increased resolution and performance, but getting there will require a shift to smaller individual pixel...
Legal marijuana sales creating escalating damage to the environment
Marijuana sales have created an economic boom in U.S. states that have fully or partially relaxed their cannabis laws, but is the increased cultivation and...
Protein once thought exclusive to neurons helps some cancers grow, spread, defy death
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Feb. 20, 2017 - How we think and fall in love are controlled by lightning-fast electrochemical signals across synapses, the...
GMU researchers helping intelligence analysts make smart decisions
Credit: Marcia Staimer/George Mason University Researchers at George Mason University are developing a tool combining intelligent computer software and high-level crowdsourcing that will allow inte..
Scientists release final report, recommendations from the 2016 US National Ocean Exploration Forum
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Ocean explorers need to think "beyond the ships" and plan ahead to an age of SuBastian and the Roboats -- a...
Dream of energy-collecting windows is one step closer to reality
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer...
OU professor awarded highest recognition by Society for mined land reclamation work
Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering professor, Robert W. Nairn, is the recipient of the prestigious William T. Plass Award...
Buying green doesn’t make you green: QUT study
Company bosses need to walk-the-walk when it comes to greening their business with technology, with new QUT research finding that just buying green IT, doesn't...
New approach for the capture of tumor-derived exosomes from a prostate cancer cell line
Credit: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 In a new paper in Springer's Journal of Materials Science, researchers at Washington State University report a new...
Tiny nanoclusters could solve big problems for lithium-ion batteries
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- As devices become smaller and more powerful, they require faster, smaller, more stable batteries. University of...
Four NYU faculty win Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships
Four New York University faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Jayeeta Basu, an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute at...
Cocaine addiction leads to build-up of iron in brain
Cocaine addiction may affect how the body processes iron, leading to a build-up of the mineral in the brain, according to new research from the...
Pitt study finds potential marker of drug response in many cancer types
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have uncovered a novel genetic mechanism of thyroid cancer, as well...
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