Big Brother will have some difficulty ‘watching you’ in future
Credit: Wits University Nature Physics today, Monday, 23 January 2017, published online the research by a team led by physicists from the School of Physics...
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Today’s rare meteorites were once common
Credit: Image credit: © Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute. Four hundred and sixty-six million years ago, there was a giant collision in outer space. Something...
Breaking the optical bandwidth record of stable pulsed lasers
Credit: Ultrafast Optical Processing Group, INRS-EMT The Ultrafast Optical Processing Group at INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) has redefined the limitations and constraints...
Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter
Credit: Jonathan Aurnou One mystery has been whether the jets exist only in the planet's upper atmosphere -- much like the Earth's own jet streams...
UTMB researcher is co-inventor of a faster and more accurate test for diagnosing Zika
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center, have developed a...
System for handling database caching yields faster websites
Today, loading a web page on a big website usually involves a database query -- to retrieve the latest contributions to a discussion you're participating...
Finding a needle in the ocean
Credit: Ambre Alexander Payne/University of Delaware Big data is being used in a broad range of applications from targeting customers and improving sports performance to...
What might Trump mean for chemistry? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2017 -- Donald Trump is now the 45th president of the U.S. While much was said about...
Successful immunotherapy requires system-wide immune response
New research led by researchers from UC San Francisco and Stanford University has found that successful cancer immunotherapy appears to depend on whether the treatment...
Stop smoking services may boost mental health of people with depression
Smokers with depression who successfully quit smoking using stop smoking services may see an improvement in their mental health, according to new research,* funded by...
A new principle for epigenetic changes
In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have found evidence of a new principle for how epigenetic changes can occur. The principle is based...
Provocative prions may protect yeast cells from stress
Credit: From Chernova et al Cell Reports (2017). Prions have a notorious reputation. They cause neurodegenerative disease, namely mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. And the way these...
Noninvasive ultrasound pulses used to precisely tweak rat brain activity
Credit: Raag Airan Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins report they have worked out a noninvasive way to release and deliver concentrated amounts of a drug...
Bacterial discovery solves 20-year-old molecular paleontology mystery
A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea. The surprising finding solves a...
In African ‘fairy circles,’ a template for nature’s many patterns
Credit: Photo by Jen Guyton, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of...
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