Hubble’s front row seat when galaxies collide
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as IRAS 14348-1447 -- a name...
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Zeroing in on the true nature of fluids within nanocapillaries
Credit: Morineau WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2017 -- Shrinking the investigation of objects down to the nanometer scale often reveals new properties of matter that...
Springer partners with the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Credit: Springer Springer, one of the leading publishers in the fields of science, technology and medicine, will launch the new journal of the Institute of...
Cost-saving, longer-lasting biodegradable adhesive patented by Kansas State University
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Kansas State University researchers have patented the first plant-based resin of its kind that would be ideal for...
Hubble captures ‘shadow play’ caused by possible planet
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Debes (STScI) Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They're so small and faint that it's hard...
NASA study finds a connection between wildfires and drought
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from Suomi NPP For centuries drought has come and gone across northern sub-Saharan Africa....
New categorization of food scares will prevent food chain being compromised
Researchers develop a new categorisation of food scares which will aid more efficient development of strategies to tackle the problem. Existing categorisations were found to...
Rapid Arctic warming has in the past shifted Southern Ocean winds
Credit: Linda Morris/U.S. Ice Drilling Program The global climate is a complex machine in which some pieces are separate, yet others are connected. Scientists try...
Cultural differences may leave their mark on DNA
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's shared culture and environment, rather...
Changing rainfall patterns linked to water security in India
Credit: Asoka A, 2017 Changing rainfall is the key factor driving changes in groundwater storage in India, according to a new study led by the...
Insects feel the heat: Scientists reveal rise in temperature affects ability to reproduce
Even a mild rise in temperature damages insect's ability to reproduce Insect populations in high latitude countries are worst affected Identifying genes linked to increased...
George Mason University partners with Wiley for online graduate programs
Hoboken, NJ - January 10, 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) George Mason University have entered into a 10-year agreement...
Taking graphics cards beyond gaming
The graphics cards found in powerful gaming computers are now capable of solving computationally intensive mathematical problems common in science and engineering applications, thanks to...
Difficulty in noticing that white people are white, new study finds
As part of the study, people had to guess what a group of three white or black actors had in common. When the common feature...
Physicists awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the universe
Theoretical physicists from the University of Plymouth have been awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the world and the universe that surrounds us. The...
