ORNL wins four FLC technology transfer awards
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 9, 2017 - Four technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have earned Federal Laboratory...
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Rice takes deeper look at unconventional oil and gas
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Understanding how oil and gas molecules, water and rocks interact at the nanoscale will help make extraction of hydrocarbons through hydraulic...
We like taking selfies but not looking at them
Credit: Images courtesy of Sarah Diefenbach. Selfies are enormously popular on social media. Google statistics have estimated that about 93 million selfies were taken per...
Direct radiolabeling of nanomaterials
Positron emission tomography plays a pivotal role for monitoring the distribution and accumulation of radiolabeled nanomaterials in living subjects. The radioactive metals are usually connected...
Hubble finds big brother of Halley’s Comet ripped apart by white dwarf
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levy (STScI) The international team of astronomers observed the white dwarf WD 1425+540, about 170 light-years from Earth in the...
Hubble witnesses massive comet-like object pollute atmosphere of a white dwarf
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI) For the first time, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup...
ESMO announces new award for achievements in immuno-oncology
Lugano, Feb. 9, 2017 - ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced today a new award honouring individuals for outstanding achievements...
Extended lactation does not impair the quality or cheese-making property of milk
On average, a Danish dairy cow calve once a year. However, there are many indications that fewer calvings and extended milking periods have more advantages....
Meta-lenses bring benchtop performance to small, hand-held spectrometer
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 9, 2017 -- A research team of physicists from Harvard University has developed new hand-held spectrometers capable of the same performance as...
Computer trained to predict which AML patients will go into remission, which will relapse
Credit: School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers have developed the first computer machine-learning model to accurately predict which patie..
Malaria mosquitos sensitive to horseradish
Credit: Picture: Sabeen Survery and Urban Johanson. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken an important step on the road to understanding the underlying...
Metamaterial: Mail armor inspires physicists
Credit: Photo: KIT The Middle Ages certainly were far from being science-friendly: Whoever looked for new findings off the beaten track faced the threat of...
Industrial maintenance is becoming knowledge work
Credit: Konecranes Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mobile social media will soon be part of everyday work for service technicians. VTT Technical Research...
IFT20 protein’s role in helping cancer cells to invade
Credit: Kobe University An international research team has discovered that the IFT20 protein helps some cancer cells to invade by facilitating the transportation of membranes...
Doctors create ‘MAGIC algorithm’ to predict bone marrow transplant patients’ risk of dying
(New York, NY - February 3, 2017) --Researchers at Mount Sinai Health System have discovered a way to predict whether blood cancer patients who received...
