UTA researcher earns TxDOT contract to use geocells to improve pavement infrastructure
Credit: UT Arlington A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to determine the benefits of using recycled materials and geocells to...
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Level up and learn: Team teaches science through video game
A University of Texas at Dallas team is exploring whether teaching real-world science through a popular computer game may offer a more engaging and effective...
Tumor-targeting system uses cancer’s own mechanisms to betray its location
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By hijacking a cancer cell's own metabolism, researchers have found a way to tag and target...
Research on dementia needs new approach say scientists at 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting
BOSTON--Nutrition researcher Neal D. Barnard, M.D., and other speakers at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Annual Meeting call for a new approach...
A new contrast agent for MRI
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new, specially coated iron oxide nanoparticle developed by a team at MIT and elsewhere could provide an alternative to conventional gadolinium-based...
Joseph Moskal elected to medical and biological engineering elite
Credit: Sally Ryan Northwestern University's Joseph R. Moskal has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Moskal...
Kalinin, Paranthaman elected Materials Research Society fellows
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 14, 2017 -- Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sergei Kalinin and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, have...
Extending VCSEL wavelength coverage to the mid-infrared
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are small, semiconductor-based lasers that emit optical beams from their top surface, and one of...
Study: Long-term eelgrass loss due to joint effects of shade, heat
Credit: © J. Lefcheck/VIMS. A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science links a long-term decline in Chesapeake Bay's eelgrass...
Black hole is producing its own fuel for star-making
The Phoenix cluster is an enormous accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies, located 5.7 billion light years from Earth. At its center lies a massive galaxy,...
Ancient jars found in Judea reveal earth’s magnetic field is fluctuating, not diminishing
Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagnetic...
USU chemist seeks ‘game-changer’ in electrochemical water catalysis
Credit: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - The world's current reliance on fossil fuel energy, which is finite and a major source...
Flirting on the ‘fly’, what blow flies can tell us about attraction & dating apps
Loading video... Credit: SFU A study led by SFU biology researcher Gerhard Gries found that the photoreceptors in the eyes of blow flies do more...
Turning up the heat for perfect (nano)diamonds
Credit: Stephan Hruszkewycz WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, contains a host...
Study confirms key therapeutic advance for children living with HIV and tuberculosis
Credit: Scholars & Gentlemen /DNDi The non-profit research and development organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has released results of a st..
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