NASA’s Webb Telescope team prepares for earsplitting acoustic test
Credit: Credits: NASA Inside NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland the James Webb Space Telescope team completed the environmental portion of vibration testing...
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Bristol and BT collaborate on massive MIMO trials for 5G wireless
Loading video... Credit: BT The quest for highly efficient 5G wireless connectivity has been given a boost thanks to a collaboration between a team of...
How proteins reshape cell membranes
Credit: Image: Arthur Alves de Melo, MDC Small "bubbles" frequently form on membranes of cells and are taken up into their interior. The process involves...
Cosmic blast from the past
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Three decades...
New polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling
When Geoffrey Coates, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this...
Electrons use DNA like a wire for signaling DNA replication
Credit: Caltech In the early 1990s, Jacqueline Barton, the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, discovered an unexpected property...
Study offers guidance on how to protect olive trees from being ravaged by deadly pathogen
Credit: Dr Steven White, CEH. Expert ecologists at the UK-based Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) have devised a scientific model which could help predict...
Hammerhead shark migration gives new hope for conservation
Credit: Eugene Kitsios for Bimini Biological Research Station A target of both the recreational fishing and shark-fin trade, the global population of the instantly recognizable...
Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech to create minerals industry consortium
Credit: Colorado School of Mines Minerals and metals are at the foundation of modern technology-based societies. Each year, the average American uses about 25 tons...
High levels of chemicals found in indoor cats
Credit: Photo: Jana Weiss A study from Stockholm University have now established what was previously suspected, that the high levels of brominated flame retardants measured...
New algorithm identifies gene transfers between different bacterial species
Credit: Photo: Pekka Marttinen Gene transfers are particularly common in the antibiotic-resistance genes of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. When mammals breed, the genome of the offspring...
Two types of sensors that provide information on vineyard water status are designed
Credit: NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre The first of these sensors provides information without being in contact with the plant and works by capturing information in...
Tissue-engineered model developed to study bone-invading tumor
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 24, 2017--Researchers have used tissue engineering to create models for studying the bone-destroying activity of...
Interactive health apps may inspire healthy behaviors, but watch the tone
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Just like real doctors and nurses, online health tools with good -- but controlled -- communication skills can promote healthier lifestyles,...
Saturn’s rings viewed in the mid-infrared show bright cassini division
Credit: NAOJ A team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the brightnesses and temperatures of Saturn's rings using the mid-infrared images taken by the Subaru...
