Hubble spotlights a celestial sidekick
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a highly efficient wide-field camera covering...
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From mice, clues to microbiome’s influence on metabolic disease
Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has been shown to work in...
Designing new materials from ‘small’ data
Credit: James Rondinelli Finding new functional materials is always tricky. But searching for very specific properties among a relatively small family of known materials is...
Developing a catalytic conveyor belt
Credit: Oleg E. Shklyaev and Henry Shum PITTSBURGH (February 17, 2017) ... Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement, researchers at the University of...
Measuring pain: SLU scientist tests possible biomarkers
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- With new funding from The Mayday Fund, a Saint Louis University researcher will leverage her discovery of a...
DRI unmanned cloud-seeding realizes beyond visual line of sight
Loading video... Credit: DRI/Drone America Reno, Nev. (Feb. 16, 2017) - Nevada's unmanned cloud-seeding research team has realized another fundamental capability in their effort toward...
When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials
Credit: ©Science China Press Ultrafast non-equilibrium magnetization in correlated spin systems is extensively studied in recent years. At both fundamental and application levels, ultrafast laser...
In-mouse catalysis
Address and deliver: A gold catalyst can be delivered to a target organ in a higher organism where it performs a chemical transformation visualized by...
Tumor suppressor promotes some acute myeloid leukemias, study reveals
Credit: Behrens et al., 2017 Researchers in Germany have discovered that a tumor suppressor protein thought to prevent acute myeloid leukemia (AML) can actually promote...
Quality of life with those with advanced cancer improved through walking
Walking for just 30 minutes three times per week could improve the quality of life for those with advanced cancer, a new study published in...
Role of rogue protein PAK4 confirmed in pancreatic cancer cells
A new study that confirms the role of a protein called PAK4 in the movement and growth of pancreatic cancer cells could help researchers find...
Molecular phenomenon discovered by advanced NMR facility
Credit: University of Warwick Cutting edge tech shows molecule self-assembling into different forms passing from solution state to solid state and back again - a...
Researchers replicate nature’s ability to reflect light to develop innovative ma
Researchers from the University of Surrey have developed an innovative new technique to mimic one of nature's greatest achievements -- natural structural colour. Following in...
Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms
Credit: Created by Enrique Sahagun Heat transport is of similar fundamental importance and its control is for instance necessary to efficiently cool the ever smaller...
Big improvement to brain-computer interface
Credit: Sam Kassegne When people suffer spinal cord injuries and lose mobility in their limbs, it's a neural signal processing problem. The brain can still...
