USDA announces $2.9 million available for biorefinery research
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of $2.9 million...
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The U joins national sustainable manufacturing alliance for recycling and remanufacturing
Rochester Institute of Technology's Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) was selected this week by the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its Manufacturing USA...
Hubble detects ‘exocomets’ taking the plunge into a young star
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild and G. Bacon (STScI) Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets...
Study characterizes key molecular tool in DNA repair enzymes
New research has revealed the function of a widely shared enzyme component, the Zf-GRF domain, as a critical molecular tool necessary for manipulating DNA during...
NASA study finds solar storms could spark soils at moon’s poles
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SVS Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles,...
Researchers design one of strongest, lightest materials known
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a...
Symposium turns spotlight on brain research
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The brain is home to two kinds of cells: neurons and glia, with the latter protecting the former. Glia, the stuff between...
A breakthrough in optical physics by Professor Roberto Morandotti’s team
For the second year in a row, a scientific advance by Professor Roberto Morandotti's team at the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre has been...
Investigators identify optimal conditions for growth of Legionella bacteria
Washington, DC - January 6, 2017 - The bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease grow well in warm tap water installations with ample dissolved organic matter--conditions...
Parents purchase frozen dinners for more than convenience
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, January 6, 2017 - Processed foods are higher in calories, sugar, sodium, and saturated fat than...
New research offers clues into how the brain shapes perception to control behavior
Credit: Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function at The Rockefeller University What you see is not always what you get. And that, researchers at The Rockefeller...
Tailored organoid may help unravel immune response mystery
What if you could design an adaptable, biomaterials-based model of an organ to track its immune response to any number of maladies, including cancer, transplant...
New guidelines for diagnosis and management of thyroid disease during pregnancy published in Thyroid
Thyroid (), the official journal of the American Thyroid Association (http://www.thyroid.org/), is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly online with open access options and in...
UCI scientists identify a new approach to recycle greenhouse gas
Credit: UCI Led by Yilin Hu, UCI assistant professor of molecular biology & biochemistry at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences, the researchers found that...
Zooplankton rapidly evolve tolerance to road salt
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A common species of zooplankton--the smallest animals in the freshwater food web--can evolve genetic tolerance to moderate levels of road salt...