Plants at the pump
Credit: Photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif.--Regular, unleaded or algae? That's a choice drivers could make at the pump one day. But for...
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The protective layer of prehistoric land plants
Credit: Photo: Ralf Reski An international research team has discovered a biochemical pathway that is responsible for the development of moss cuticles. These waxy coverings...
Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba
Credit: Fabiany Herrera & Patrick Herendeen A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed...
Stabilizing soils with sulfates to improve their constructional properties
Credit: Seco et al., 2017 The journal Applied Clay Science has recently published the paper 'Sulfate soils stabilization with magnesium-based bindersâ', a piece of research...
Ionization mechanisms of captive atoms struck by light matter
Light interacting with hydrogen atoms enclosed in hollow cages composed of carbon atoms - referred to as fullerene material - produces ionisation. This phenomenon, which...
Mechanism underlying size-sorting of rubble on asteroid Itokawa revealed
Credit: JAXA In 2005, the Hayabusa spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) landed on Itokawa, a small near-Earth asteroid named after the...
How rare sugars might help control blood glucose
In an era when the label "natural" hits a sweet spot with consumers, some uncommon sugars emerging on the market could live up to the...
Moving toward faster, more accurate detection of food- and water-borne bacteria
Credit: Charles S. Henry, Ph.D. Food poisoning is a scourge. Yet preventing it is far from foolproof. But in a new study in Analytical Chemistry,...
Physicists design a device inspired by sonic screwdriver
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Physicists have designed a handheld device inspired by the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who and the tricorder in Star Trek that...
New technology platform propels the use of ‘organs-on-chips’
A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of...
Phonon nanoengineering: Vibrations of nanoislands dissipate heat more effectively
Credit: (Source: IFJ PAN) Europium silicide has for some time attracted the attention of scientists. Recognized as being promising for electronics and spintronics, this material...
RIT alumnus wins national award for undergraduate physics research
A graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Science has been recognized by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the-Advanced Laboratory Physics Association...
Researchers propose technique for measuring weak or nonexistent magnetic fields
Credit: Michael Flatte, University of Iowa Physicists at the University of Iowa have proposed a new technique to detect and measure materials that give off...
Quantifying nature’s mental health benefits
The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. Nature's positive impact on mood is easily understood on an intuitive...
Northeastern researcher to co-direct NSF initiative to advance wireless communication
On Wednesday, the National Science Foundation named Northeastern professor Tommaso Melodia director of research of the Project Office for a groundbreaking initiative called Platforms for...
