A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment
Credit: Allison Dougherty The gelatinous jaw of a sea worm, which becomes hard or flexible depending on the environment around it, has inspired researchers at...
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Bacteria with Midas touch for efficient gold processing
Credit: Joel Brugger Special 'nugget-producing' bacteria may hold the key to more efficient processing of gold ore, mine tailings and recycled electronics, as well as...
Fast, low energy, and continuous biofuel extraction from microalgae
Credit: Professor Hamid Hosseini As an alternative to liquid fossil fuels, biodiesel extracted from microalgae is an increasingly important part of the bioenergy field. While...
Dawn of organic single crystal electronics
Credit: Institute for Molecular Science Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences (Japan) have developed a method for high performance...
Towards largest-possible separation between quantum and classical query complexities
Credit: ©Science China Press Correlation functions are often employed to quantify the relationships among interdependent variables or sets of data. A few years ago, Aaronson...
Arizona State University wins record 14 NSF career awards
Tempe, AZ, April 29 -- Arizona State University has earned 14 National Science Foundation early career faculty awards, ranking second among all university recipients of...
When the smoke clears… tobacco control in post-conflict settings
In new research published today by King's College London - Institute of Cancer Policy and the Conflict & Health Research Group in the journal ecancermedicalscience,...
Single gene encourages growth of intestinal stem cells, supporting ‘niche’ cells — and cancer
A gene previously identified as critical for tumor growth in many human cancers also maintains intestinal stem cells and encourages the growth of cells that...
Mineral resources: Exhaustion is just a myth
Credit: copyright: UNIGE Recent articles have declared that deposits of mineral raw materials (copper, zinc, etc.) will be exhausted within a few decades. An international...
First global simulation yields new insights into ring system
Credit: Shugo Michikoshi, Eiichiro Kokubo, Hirotaka Nakayama, 4D2U Project, NAOJ A team of researchers in Japan modeled the two rings around Chariklo, the smallest body...
England’s Cancer Drugs Fund ‘failed to deliver meaningful value to patients and society’
Analysis of the drugs that were approved for use by the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in England has shown that the fund was not...
Weather extremes and trade policies were main drivers of wheat price peaks
Price peaks of wheat on the world market are mainly caused by production shocks such as induced for example by droughts, researchers found. These shocks...
Follow-up colonoscopies associated with a significantly lower incidence of bowel cancer
Patients at risk of developing bowel cancer can significantly benefit from a follow-up colonoscopy, finds research published today in Lancet Oncology. Currently, everyone in the...
NOAA funds UM coral restoration research
Credit: Dalton Hesley MIAMI--The University of Miami's (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science announced today a two-year award from the National Oceanic and...
NJIT graduate student wins IBM fellowship to develop brain-inspired computing systems
S. R. Nandakumar, a graduate student in electrical engineering, has won a coveted IBM Ph.D. fellowship to support his work on computer systems that mimic...
