Harnessing CRISPR for rapid detection of viral and bacterial infection
Loading video... Credit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used to diagnose infections, such as...
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Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
Credit: Princeton University In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly logical and objectively rational. But...
Unveiling how nucleosome repositioning occurs to shed light on genetic diseases
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, April 14 - A research group led by Hitoshi Kurumizaka, a professor of structural biology at Waseda University, unveiled the crystal...
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
Credit: Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT. Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance...
Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line
Credit: Image courtesy of Robert Landick MADISON, Wisconsin -- There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of...
How nature engineered the original rotary motor
Credit: Howard Berg, Harvard University The bacterial flagellum is one of nature's smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions per minute. To function properly...
Methane seeps in the Canadian high Arctic
Credit: Credit Stephen Grasby and Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor,...
Policymakers ‘flying blind’ into the future of work
PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information they need to answer it...
With magnetic map, young eels catch a ‘free ride’ to Europe
Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to coastal and freshwater habitats from...
Brain tissue from a petri dish
Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it...
Cancer occurrence among African-born blacks differs substantially from US-born blacks
The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according to a new study. The...
A battery prototype powered by atmospheric nitrogen
Credit: Zhang et. al. As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a source of renewable energy. But...
Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect...
New material could save time and money in medical imaging and environmental remediation
Credit: Samuel Dunning and David Steadman/University of Texas at Austin Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a material that holds the...
Nearly two billion people depend on imported food
Credit: Aalto University Researchers show empirically: when population pressure increases, food is imported The Earth's capacity to feed its growing population is limited - and...
