Visionary engineering
Sumita Pennathur, an associate professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received the prestigious "Visionary Award" from the American Diabetes Association (ADA)....
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Metabolic mechanism identified for R-LA induced cell death in liver cancer cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 11, 2017--A new study that measured metabolite levels over time in starved rat liver cancer...
CDC/WHO Ebola guidelines could put sewer workers at risk
Research from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh suggests that guidelines for safe disposal of liquid waste from patients being treated for the Ebola...
Did you catch that? Robot’s speed of light communication could protect you from danger
Credit: Cornell University, College of Engineering ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as...
Who are you on social media? New research examines norms of online personas
According to the Pew Research center, the majority of adults on the internet have more than one social networking profile on sites like Facebook, Twitter,...
MDI Biological Laboratory to provide incubator space to Monoclonals Inc.
Credit: Monoclonals Inc. BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it will provide laboratory incubator space to Monoclonals Inc., a biomedical...
What’s a knot — and what’s not — in genomic mapping
Credit: Jain and Dorfman WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2017 -- While DNA sequencing provides precise, nucleotide-by-nucleotide genomic information, genome mapping provides a bigger-picture perspective..
‘Indistinguishable photons’ key to advancing quantum technologies
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2017 -- To really take off, advanced quantum information processing will require getting a better (experimental) grasp of an essential phenomenon...
Flexible processors with atomically thin materials
Credit: Hermann Detz, TU Vienna The first fully functional microprocessor logic devices based on few-atom-thick layered materials have been demonstrated by researchers from the Graphene...
Humans and sponges share gene regulation
Credit: Courtesy The University of Queensland Humans have a lot in common with the humble sea sponge, according to research that changes the way we...
Environmental DNA helps protect great crested newts
Credit: By kind permission of Dr Brett Lewis Research by the University of Kent has revealed how tiny amounts of DNA (eDNA) released into water...
‘Cold’ Great Spot discovered on Jupiter
Credit: Based on data from VLT/ESO. Great Cold Spot comparable in scale to famous Great Red Spot (24,000 km west-east and 12,000 km north-south) The...
Researchers unravel the drivers of large iceberg movement
When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic,...
Microprocessors based on a layer of just 3 atoms
Credit: TU Wien, Marco Furchi Two-dimensional materials, or 2D materials for short, are extremely versatile, although - or often more precisely because - they are...
All in one against CO2
A "self-heating" boron catalyst that makes particularly efficient use of sunlight to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) serves as a light harvester, photothermal converter, hydrogen generator,...
