Helping students learn by sketching
Although sketching exercises can help students learn many subjects, they are woefully underused in classrooms. "Sketches are difficult and time-consuming to grade," said Northwestern University'..
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Study unravels long-held Fermi puzzle tied to nonlinear systems
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In physics, the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) problem -- which found that certain nonlinear systems do not disperse their energy, but rather return to...
ENN Group becomes MIT Energy Initiative member to advance energy storage technologies
Credit: Kelley Travers / MITEI Recognizing the critical need for scalable energy storage solutions to develop regional energy systems in China, ENN Group of China...
Study finds worse survival when specific thyroid cancers spread to bone
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan - When cancer metastases, bone unwittingly offers a friendly place for tumor cell growth--only to have its hospitality betrayed...
Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered a catastrophic explosion and blowout on April 21, 2010, leading to the worst oil spill...
Hubble sees starbursts in Virgo
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Although galaxy formation and evolution are still far from being fully understood, the conditions we see within certain galaxies -- such...
Unraveling the mechanism of skin barrier formation
Scientists have identified the gene responsible for generating acylceramide, the key lipid in forming the skin barrier that protects us from pathogens, allergens and other...
Affection of the respiratory muscles in combined complex I and IV deficiency
Mitochondrial disorders (MIDs) frequently manifest as myopathy. Myopathy may also involve the respiratory muscles. Affection of the respiratory muscles may progress to respiratory insufficiency, requi..
Glioblastoma patients may benefit from a vaccine-chemotherapy combination
Bottom Line: A vaccine targeting cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigen pp65, combined with high-dose chemotherapy (temozolomide), improved both progression-free survival and overall survival for a small group..
Immunotherapy for glioblastoma well tolerated; survival gains observed
Credit: Clinical Cancer Research/American Association for Cancer Research DURHAM, N.C. -- A phase one study of 11 patients with glioblastoma who received injections of an...
When it comes to your profile picture, let a stranger do the choosing
Credit: Please credit 'choosing face infographic by David White' When trying to pick the most flattering pictures for online profiles, it may be best to...
The world’s most spoken language is…’Terpene’
Credit: 21 Lux photography/Heike Engel If you're small, smells are a good way to stand out. A team of researchers led by the Netherlands Institute...
Scientists tag humpback whales in southeast Pacific
Credit: Anne Gordon, Whale Watching Panama Whales from both poles migrate long distances to breed in tropical waters. Smithsonian scientist Hector M. Guzman and Fernando...
Kent State University at Stark research unravels mysteries of mouthparts of butterflies
Imagine that the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids can be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to...
Advantage: Water
Credit: Zdenek Dohnalek RICHLAND, Wash. - When a molecule of water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst titanium oxide, it sometimes breaks...
