NASA’s Apollo-era test chamber now James Webb Space Telescope ready
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's "Chamber A," an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber housed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, is now ready...
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Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength
Loading video... Credit: Mandre Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Pizza enthusiasts know well that a simple u-shaped curvature at the crust can keep...
Drug-delivery method holds promise for controlling crop parasites
Credit: Paul Chariou Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are applying drug-delivery technology to agriculture to control parasitic roundworms more effectively and safely. The tiny...
Detecting bloodstains — with an antimalarial compound
Credit: American Chemical Society As seen on crime shows, investigators use a combination of luminol and other substances to light up bloodstains at crime scenes....
JSA names co-recipients of its 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize
Washington, DC - Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, announced today that Charles Perdrisat and Charles Sinclair are the recipients of the 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize....
When gold turns invisible
Credit: Seki T. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2, 2017 A gold compound shifts from a visible fluorescence to emitting infrared...
Bamboo inspires optimal design for lightness and toughness
Credit: Sato M., et al., PLOS ONE, May 3, 2017 The spatial distribution of fibers in hollow bamboo cylinders is optimized to reinforce flexural rigidity,...
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject of intense research interest for...
From terrestrial and marine bioresources and wastes to value-added products
One of the main objectives of bio-based economy is to provide end markets with a wide selection of bio-based products able to compete with the...
Spotting the invisible
(Umea University) Chemists at Umeå University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping structures and functions of a transient enzyme state. By modifying the enzyme adenylate...
Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women
Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers show that tea consumption in...
Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers
Credit: © Thomas Le Provost Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key to work, it must consist...
Nitrogen oxides emissions: Traffic dramatically underestimated as major polluter
Credit: Uni Innsbruck In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are consistently breached. It has been a challenge to determine how...
CNIO presents an online tool to extract drug toxicity information from text
The Biological Text Mining Unit presents in a recent Nucleic Acids Research paper the LimTox online software tool developed at the Spanish National Cancer Research...
Uber and Kazan University name Saint-Petersburg the most ‘taxi-abundant’ city in Russia
The two parties sampled 1,600 Uber users in Russia's five biggest cities - Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. The results showed that Saint-Petersburg has...
