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Credit: Teufel/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature ...

Chemistry on the edge

Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot ...

First look inside nanoscale catalysts shows ‘defects’ are useful

Credit: (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Using one of the world's brightest light sources to peer inside some of the world's ...

Catching CRISPR in action

Credit: Jin Liu and Zhicheng Zuo, UNT One of the most talked about biological breakthroughs in the past decade was ...

WPI researcher wins NSF CAREER Award to study how bacteria survive in stressful conditions

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and ...

Researchers find a potential target for anti-Alzheimer’s treatments

Credit: LCSB at the University of Luxembourg Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of ...

Dual-purpose biofuel crops could extend production, increase profits

Credit: Haley Ahlers/PETROSS Today many biofuel refineries operate for only seven months each year, turning freshly harvested crops into ethanol ...

Innovative imaging and surgery treats lymph condition in adults

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers who developed a safe and effective procedure to remove thick clogs in children's airways ...

Hubble’s front row seat when galaxies collide

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate smudge in deep space is far more turbulent than it first appears. Known as ...

Future now — applying lasers in 3-D printing and manufacturing

Credit: World Scientific, 2017 With the rapid advancement of technology in the manufacturing arena, 3D printing is fast becoming a ...

Rise of personal technology in criminal proceedings poses risks to individuals’ rights

Personal technology such as fitness trackers and smartphones that record users' daily activities are likely to be used increasingly in ...

Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis

1. Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis in Danish study Screening was not associated with a reduction in advanced ...

Prostate cancer treatment rates drop, reflecting change in screening recommendations

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men ...

Aggressive prostate cancer secrets revealed in landmark study

Credit: Monash University A landmark study, led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute with the involvement of the Peter MacCallum ...

Newly discovered phytoplankton groups appear to favor warmer oceans

Credit: Adam Monier, University of Exeter (Toronto - Jan. 9, 2017) An international research team has discovered two phytoplankton groups ...

VLT to search for planets in Alpha Centauri system

Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation ...

Boston College and MIT chemists report E-selective macrocyclic ring-closing metathesis

Chestnut Hill, Mass. (Jan. 9, 2017) - Using ring-closing metathesis to exploit the properties of carbon-carbon double bonds, researchers from ...

For chemicals, mega is out and bio is in

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Ramon Gonzalez sees flares burning methane from the stacks above Houston's refineries and thinks, "What a ...

Illinois team advances GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors

Credit: University of Illinois A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon ...

Ottoline Leyser honored with the 2017 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award