Study points a way to better implantable medical devices
Credit: Photo-illustration by Felice Frankel CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Medical devices implanted in the body for drug delivery, sensing, or tissue regeneration usually come under fire...
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New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma
(DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) A physicist has created a new system that will let scientists control the energy and rotation of plasma in real time...
A pocket-sized retina camera, no dilating required
Credit: Bailey Shen. It's the part of the eye exam everyone hates: the pupil-dilating eye drops. The drops work by opening the pupil and preventing...
Tracing down linear ubiquitination
Credit: Koraljka Husnjak using PyMOL software FRANKFURT. Ubiquitin is a small protein that can be linked to other cellular proteins, thereby controlling and modulating their...
TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the...
Molecular scale transporter with a twist, powered by liquid crystal defects
Defects that break the symmetry of otherwise orderly material are called topological defects. In solid crystals, they are called dislocations because they interrupt the regularly...
Hubble’s glittering frisbee galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a section of NGC 1448, a spiral galaxy located about 50...
SwRI-led team focusing on safety chosen for NASA’s SSERVI
Boulder, Colo. -- March 20, 2017 -- NASA announced it has selected a new team led by Southwest Research Institute to its Solar System Exploration...
Carnegie Mellon University launches carbon emissions index
PITTSBURGH, PA - Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced the creation of a new index that will measure carbon...
New species of Brazilian copepod suggests ancient species diversification and distribution
Credit: Dr. Paulo H. C. Corgosinho A new species of groundwater copepod has been discovered in the rocky savannas of Brazil - an ecosystem suffering...
Gardening worms and climate change undermine natural coastal protection
Credit: Photo NIOZ Dikes could be lower if they are protected against the waves by grassy marshes. But the protective salt marsh grass is struggling...
Team nebulizes aphids to knock down gene expression
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers are nebulizing soybean aphids with RNA, which, when incorporated into the body, can hinder the...
Reconsider the impact of trees on water cycles and climate, scientists ask
Bogor (Indonesia) and Nairobi (Kenya), March 20, 2017 - Forests and trees play a major role on water cycles and cooler temperatures, contributing to food...
Pembrolizumab shows promise in treatment of mesothelioma
PHILADELPHIA - Pembrolizumab, an antibody drug already used to treat other forms of cancer, can be effective in the treatment of the most common form...
Unexpected, star-spangled find may lead to advanced electronics
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in...
