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Credit: UT Arlington J.-C. Chiao, a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering professor, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for...

Berkeley launches RISELab, enabling computers to make intelligent real-time decisions

Credit: UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley today launched the RISELab, the successor of AMPLab, and the latest in its series of five-year intensive research labs in...

New insights into the forms of metal-organic frameworks

Credit: UNIST The accurate interpretation of particle sizes and shapes in nanoporus materials is essential to understanding and optimizing the performance of porous materials used...

Researchers report new understanding of global warming

Credit: University of Houston Researchers know that more, and more dangerous, storms have begun to occur as the climate warms. A team of scientists has...

News media registration open for ENDO 2017: The 99th Annual Meeting & EXPO in Orlando, FL

Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine Society's 99th...

Don’t smile too big to be effective in online marketing ads, study funds

Credit: Journal of Consumer Research LAWRENCE -- If you're seeking investments through online marketing or crowd-funding websites, be sure to smile in your profile photo...

Synthetic chemicals: Ignored agents of global change

Credit: © The Ecological Society of America (Millbrook, NY) Despite a steady rise in the manufacture and release of synthetic chemicals, research on the ecological...

Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalisation research

Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research consortium led by Monash University....

Scientists discover 6-million-year-old giant otter fossil in China’s Yunnan Province

Credit: Art by Maurcio Antón A paper in Journal of Systematic Paleontology, published by Taylor & Francis, reveals the discovery of one of the largest...

From tiny phytoplankton to massive tuna

Phytoplankton are the foundation of ocean life, providing the energy that supports nearly all marine species. Levels of phytoplankton in an ocean area may seem...

TSRI scientists create first stable semisynthetic organism

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt.) LA JOLLA, CA - January 23, 2017 - Life's genetic code has only ever contained four...

New metamaterial can switch from hard to soft — and back again

ANN ARBOR--When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft. But a group of University of Michigan researchers...

New PET imaging technique may help monitor neurological disease progression

Olfactory neurons in the nasal cavity are the primary source of our sense of smell. Unlike many types of neurons, olfactory neurons are continuously generated...

Liquid biopsy researchers to share their strategies for pairing digital PCR and next-generation sequencing at Precision Medicine World Conference

HERCULES, Calif. -- January 23, 2017 -- Global leaders in cancer research and clinical care will discuss how they combine next-generation sequencing (NGS) and Droplet...

Catalyst adds fluorine-containing groups to make new compounds