Baraniuk elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 12, 2017) -- Rice University professor and engineer Richard Baraniuk has been elected to the American Academy of...
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Polar glaciers may be home to previously undiscovered carbon cycle
Credit: Christine Foreman, Montanan State University Microbes in streams flowing on the surface of glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic may represent a previously underestimated...
Collisions generate gas in debris disks
Credit: RIKEN Many young stars, as well as more middle-aged stars like our sun, have "debris disks"--like the Oort Cloud in our own solar system--that...
Algal residue — an alternative carbon resource for pharmaceuticals and polyesters
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Microalgae have received much attention in biomass production due to many strains having a high biomass productivity per unit time...
Nuclear transfer of mitochondrial DNA in colon and rectal cancer
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with colon and rectal cancer have somatic insertions of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genomes of the cancer cells,...
Is there something up with stinky inflatable pool toys?
Inflatable toys and swimming aids, like bathing rings and arm bands, often have a distinctive smell which could indicate that they contain a range of...
um-Palmitoylethanolamide can slow down Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. First described by the English physician...
KTU’s unique material for new generation solar cells 1 step closer to market
Credit: KTU The team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) together with Swiss physicists had synthesised unique material for the new generation solar...
Potential new applications stem from controlling particles’ spin configurations
Fermions are ubiquitous elementary particles. They span from electrons in metals, to protons and neutrons in nuclei and to quarks at the sub-nuclear level. Further,...
Embryo development, gene scissors and self-squeezing sponges
The European Research Council funds three TU Dresden scientists with ERC Advanced Grants, the most highly-endowed individual grants on a European level. These are awarded...
AMIA announces partnership with Dryad Digital Repository
To launch the partnership, AMIA is connecting the Dryad resource to the publication of a new Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) special...
Technology to improve rockfall analysis on cliffs could save money, lives
Credit: (Image by Matt O'Banion, courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers in the Pacific Northwest have developed a new, automated technology to...
Evaluating cultural value of landscapes using geotagged photos
Credit: Yoshimura N. and Hiura T., Ecosystem Services, February 28, 2017 Researchers have developed a new method for assessing the cultural value of landscapes using...
SERIS develops world’s first full-size IBC bifacial solar module
The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed the world's first full-size Interdigitated Back Contact (IBC)...
Self-assembling polymers provide thin nanowire template
Credit: Hyo Seon Suh / University of Chicago For the chips in our computers and smartphones to get faster and faster, their components - the...
