Glacier photos illustrate climate change
Credit: Photo credit: James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey. Boulder, Colorado, USA: Climate is changing -- there should be zero doubt about this circa...
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Methane emissions from trees
Credit: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE/JEFFREY CHASE A new study from the University of Delaware is one of the first in the world to show that tree...
How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
Credit: Fischer Laboratory/Caltech The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis--that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on...
RIT researchers win USGS grant to improve Landsat 8 data
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have won funding from the U.S. Geological Survey to ensure accurate temperature data from NASA's Landsat 8 satellite. Climate researchers...
‘Fuzzy’ fibers can take rockets’ heat
Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 30, 2017) - To stand up to the heat and pressure of next-generation rocket engines, the composite...
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals detailed composition of two major types of brain tumor
Detailed analysis of two brain tumor subtypes has revealed that they may originate from the same type of neural progenitor cells and be distinguished by...
Aging: Cell coordination breakdown
Credit: Spencer Phillips, The European Bioinformatics Institute Researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and t..
Public funding essential for advances in biomedical research
BOSTON, March 30, 2017 -- In the budget President Trump recently submitted to Congress, he asked for a reduction in the 2018 funding of the...
NASA examines the rainfall left behind from ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie
Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Cyclone Debbie generated a lot of rainfall before and after it made landfall in Queensland, Australia, and NASA analyzed...
New clinical trial for early-stage eye melanoma offers study of targeted therapy
Credit: Photo courtesy: Roger Barone/Wills Eye Hospital March 30, 2017, Philadelphia, Pa - A first-of-its-kind, potentially groundbreaking new option for treating a form of eye...
Proteins that can take the heat
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ancient proteins may offer clues on how to engineer proteins that can withstand the high temperatures required in industrial applications, according...
Sculpting optical microstructures with slight changes in chemistry
Credit: (Credit Wim L. Noorduin/ C. Nadir Kaplan/ Harvard University) In 2013, materials scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied...
Rotating molecules create a brighter future
Scientists have discovered a group of materials which could pave the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lighting, solving a quandary which has inhibited...
Wispy remains of supernova explosion hide possible ‘survivor’
Credit: NASA, ESA and H.-Y. Chu (Academia Sinica, Taipei) Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most...
Researchers reveal atomic-level activity of green catalyst used in PVC production
An international group of scientists has unlocked the secret of a gold-based catalyst that is responsible for a new, environmentally friendly method of producing the...
