Washington State University physicists create ‘negative mass’
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like....
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Nuclease-resistant hybrid nanoflowers
Credit: KAIST An eco-friendly method to synthesize DNA-copper nanoflowers with high load efficiencies, low cytotoxicity, and strong resistance against nucleases has been developed by Professor...
Low cervical cancer screening rates found among mentally ill
Women enrolled in California's Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) who have been diagnosed with severe mental illness have been screened for cervical cancer at much lower rates...
Th17 cells could facilitate wider clinical use of adoptive immunotherapy
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) investigators report that long-term expansion protocols for adoptive cancer immunotherapy do not compromise...
Drop of mock B61-12 is first of new flight tests
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Photo by James Galli ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- From a distance, the drop of a mock nuclear weapon -- containing only non-nuclear components...
Computers create recipe for two new magnetic materials
Credit: Pelin Tozman, AMBER and CRANN Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland DURHAM, N.C. -- Material scientists have predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom,...
3-D-printed model of stenotic intracranial artery enables vessel-wall MRI standardization
A collaboration between stroke neurologists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and bioengineers at the University of Massachusetts has led to the creation...
SAVI camera ditches long lens for distant images
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 14, 2017) - A unique camera that can capture a detailed micron-resolution image from a distance uses a...
Immunity against melanoma is only skin deep
Credit: Yina Huang In a newly published study, researchers at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center find that unique immune cells, called resident memory T cells,...
NASA sees central and south Philippines bracing for Tropical Depression 02W
Credit: Credits: NASA NASA's Terra satellite passed over newly developed Tropical Depression 02W as it formed east of the central and southern Philippines in the...
New method for tapping vast plant pharmacopeia to make more effective drugs
Credit: Jennifer Wisecaver, Rokas Lab, Vanderbilt University Cocaine, nicotine, capsaicin. These are just three familiar examples of the hundreds of thousands of small molecules (also...
NASA examines New Zealand’s extreme rainfall as Cyclone Cook’s remnants move away
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Two extra-tropical cyclones recently dropped very heavy rain over New Zealand, Debbie and Cook. As Cook's remnants continue...
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'..
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...
