Brain boot camp: New technology aims to accelerate learning
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison Engineering MADISON, Wisconsin -- The adage "put your thinking caps on" might evoke visions of an elementary classroom, where a teacher has...
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Video captures bubble-blowing battery in action
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. -- With about three times the energy capacity by weight of today's lithium-ion batteries, lithium-air batteries could one...
UT Dallas researchers investigate technique to accelerate learning
Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas have been awarded a contract worth up to $5.8 million...
Illuminating the secret of glow-in-the-dark mushrooms
Credit: Cassius V. Stevani/IQ-USP, Brazil Illuminating the Secret of Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms: Scientists now understand what makes bioluminescent mushrooms glow, which may pave the way to...
Newly prescribed sleeping pills increase risk of hip fracture
Older people newly prescribed sleeping pills like benzodiazepines and 'Z-drugs' have over double the odds of a hip fracture in the first two weeks compared...
Study offers new theoretical approach to describing non-equilibrium phase transitions
Credit: Vinokur/Galda/Argonne National Laboratory Imaginary numbers are a solution to a very real problem in a study published today in Scientific Reports. Two physicists at...
Tracking unstable chromosomes helps predict lung cancer’s return
Scientists have found that unstable chromosomes within lung tumours increases the risk of cancer returning after surgery, and have used this new knowledge to detect...
Fighting cancer with immunotherapy: Signaling molecule causes regression of blood vessels
Credit: Image: Christian Friese / MDC Immunotherapy with T-cells offers great hope to people suffering from cancer. Some initial successes have already been made in...
Light can improve perovskite solar cell performance
Credit: Michael Grätzel/EPFL Publishing in Nature, EPFL scientists show how light affects perovskite film formation in solar cells, which is a critical factor in using...
Human forebrain circuits under construction — in a dish
Credit: Sergiu Pasca, M.D., Stanford University National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded neuroscientists have created a 3D window into the human brain's budding executive hub assembling...
Study signals need to screen genes for stem cell transplants
Regenerative medicine using human pluripotent stem cells to grow transplantable tissue outside the body carries the promise to treat a range of intractable disorders, such...
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Muifa in Northwestern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Tropical Storm Muifa continued to move through the open waters of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA's Aqua satellite...
Berkeley Lab scientists discover new atomically layered, thin magnet
Credit: Zhenglu Li/Berkeley Lab It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led...
Sun’s eruptions might all have same trigger
Credit: Wyper, P./Nature Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better...
UCI physicists design 2-D materials that conduct electricity at almost the speed of light
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif. - Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new two-dimensional quantum materials with breakthrough...
