Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing...
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Synthetic two-sided gecko’s foot could enable underwater robotics
Geckos are well known for effortlessly scrambling up walls and upside down across ceilings. Even in slippery rain forests, the lizards maintain their grip. Now...
Longer-lasting pain relief with MOFs
To treat headaches, back pain or fever, most of us have reached for ibuprofen at one point or another. But we often have to take...
Several EPA programs face possible elimination under Trump proposal
The Trump administration's proposed plan for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency includes completely defunding several programs related to climate change, public health and pollution, accord..
Scientists using high tech microscope find clues to an autoimmune disease
AURORA, Colo. (April 26, 2017) - Using a unique microscope capable of illuminating living cell structures in great detail, researchers at the University of Colorado...
Digital life project uses 3-D to document endangered frogs
Credit: Digital Life/David McIntyre AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by evolutionary biologist Duncan Irschick today unveiled...
Chad M. Walesky, Ph.D., to receive the ASIP 2017 Young Scientist Leadership Award
The ASIP Young Scientist Leadership Award is supported by the A.D. Sobel - ASIP Education Fund and recognizes outstanding and sustained achievements at the earliest...
Katerina A. Politi, Ph.D., to receive the ASIP 2017 Cotran Early Investigator Award
The Cotran Early Career Investigator Award is partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Elsevier, an ASIP Corporate Partner. This award recognizes early career...
A more than 100 percent quantum step toward producing hydrogen fuel
Efforts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels are advancing on various significant fronts. Such initiatives include research focused on more efficient production of gaseous...
Nanotechnology designed to speed up the hardening of concrete
Researchers at Tecnalia and the ICMCB-CNRS have recently published the article "Ultra-Fast Supercritical Hydrothermal Synthesis of Tobermorite under Thermodynamically Metastable Conditions" in the pre..
HHMI awards medical research fellowships to 79 students
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) Medical Research Fellows Program has selected 79 talented medical and veterinary students to conduct in-depth, mentored biomedical research. Fifty-thr..
The automation of art: A legal conundrum
Credit: Provided by: Alexander Mordvintsev, Christopher Olah and Mike Tyka In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that "contained within it is the dream...
Boston Medical Center unveils $15 million cogeneration plant to increase energy efficiency
Boston Medical Center is now generating much of its own electricity and heat through a natural gas-fired, 2 megawatt combined heat and power plant (CHP,...
New model could help predict major earthquakes
Credit: Masahiro Yoshimoto Nagoya, Japan - A Nagoya University-led team reveals the mechanisms behind different earthquakes at a plate boundary on the west coast of...
The clever cell
Credit: University of Konstanz In nature, bacteria occur mostly in multi-cellular collectives, rather than as individuals. They are capable of coordinating their behaviour, with some...
