Policymakers ‘flying blind’ into the future of work
PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information they need to answer it...
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With magnetic map, young eels catch a ‘free ride’ to Europe
Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to coastal and freshwater habitats from...
Brain tissue from a petri dish
Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it...
Cancer occurrence among African-born blacks differs substantially from US-born blacks
The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according to a new study. The...
A battery prototype powered by atmospheric nitrogen
Credit: Zhang et. al. As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a source of renewable energy. But...
Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without any applied fields. The effect...
New material could save time and money in medical imaging and environmental remediation
Credit: Samuel Dunning and David Steadman/University of Texas at Austin Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a material that holds the...
Nearly two billion people depend on imported food
Credit: Aalto University Researchers show empirically: when population pressure increases, food is imported The Earth's capacity to feed its growing population is limited - and...
New study emphasizes the relative scarcity of lake water
Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using a mathematical analysis, researcher David Seekell, at Umeå University, and his...
Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch Food Quality and Safety
Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal: Food Quality and Safety...
Scientists discover master switch to turn on silent biosynthetic gene clusters
Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of their possible offerings. Now, researchers...
First large-scale survey of Chagas disease in the United States confirms that the ‘silent killer’ is a major public health challenge for the country
Credit: Fabio Nascimento-DNDi A study of almost 5,000 Latin American-born residents of Los Angeles County found that 1.24% tested positive for Chagas disease, a parasitic...
UVA finds way to view genes inside living cells
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System Researchers have developed a technique to watch the movement of genes inside living cells in real time. They...
Measuring the shadow of the black hole
The international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imaging for the first time the black-hole candidate at the center of our Milky Way, has...
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat
Credit: Xinyu Liu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one...