Foreign graduate students and postdocs consider leaving the US
On March 6, President Donald Trump signed a second executive order to suspend immigration from six predominately Muslim countries, this time excluding Iraq from the...
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Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for electronics and photonics
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from one point to another, it...
UH Physicist launches new journal for materials science
Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, has launched...
IT Researchers develop automatic security tests for complex systems
Credit: Saarland University These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically extract the required information from...
Researchers make headway toward understanding Alexander disease
Credit: Waisman Center/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery about Alexander disease, a rare...
NASA spots sub-tropical storm 11S still swirling
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly known as 11S was spotted...
Study links sulfide-producing bacteria and colon cancer in African-Americans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the number and type of bacteria...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of drylands
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil...
Optical fingerprint can reveal pollutants in the air
(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a...
Researchers discover star in closest known orbit around black hole
An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour....
Visualizing debris disk ‘roller derby’ to understand planetary system evolution
Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material...
Relativistic electrons uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen probes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years..
NASA’s webb telescope ghostly ‘lights out’ inspection
Credit: Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn What happens when the lights are turned out in the enormous clean room that currently houses NASA's James Webb Space...
World-first surveillance strategy shaped by Stirling expertise
Credit: University of Stirling The operation of surveillance cameras is the subject of a new UK strategy, shaped by a University of Stirling privacy expert....
Quantum movement of electrons in atomic layers shows potential of materials for ele
Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from one point to another, it...
