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January 15, 2020

Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, ...

HIV ‘hotspots’ not necessarily major drivers of new infections

January 15, 2020

Credit: Kate Grabowski Areas of high HIV prevalence, known as 'hotspots', do not necessarily fuel the epidemic in the wider ...

In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture

Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural ...

Who’s liable? The AV or the human driver?

Columbia researchers use game theory to help policy makers create liability rules for accidents involving self-driving cars and those driven ...

Not so fast: Some batteries can be pushed too far

Rice engineers find overabundance of intentional defects can cause battery cathodes to failCredit: Mesoscale Materials Science Group/Rice University HOUSTON - ...

Tomohiro Nishijima earns The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC -Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research ...

Researchers develop tool to identify molecular receptors in worms

Findings published in Royal Society of Chemistry journal could speed up neuroscience researchCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - January ...

Physicists prove that 2D and 3D liquids are fundamentally different

Credit: NTU Singapore A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have ...

Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development

Credit: Yokohama National University Quicker is not always better, especially when it comes to a 3D sensor in advanced technology. ...

Researchers solve a scientific mystery about evaporation

Work has implications for power generation, desalination, electronicsCredit: University of Houston Evaporation can explain why water levels drop in a ...

New mechanism may safely prevent and reverse obesity

Researchers at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center observed that blocking a cellular receptor not only prevented but reversed obesity, with ...

Cell growth: Intricate network of potential new regulatory mechanisms has been decoded

Biophysics: Publication in StructureCredit: HHU / Manuel Etzkorn In the cover article of the Cell Press journal Structure, the authors ...

Inside story on cassowary evolution

3D scans confirm Australian bird's link to South AmericaCredit: Flinders University One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, ...

‘Superdiamond’ carbon-boron cages can trap and tap into different properties

A long-sought-after class of 'superdiamond' carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties predicted and synthesizedCredit: Image is courtesy of ...

Technique allows dolphin pregnancy exams to mirror those in humans

The NMMF has just released its most recent advancement in dolphin medicine -- an ultrasound technique for pregnant dolphins that ...

New quantum loop provides long national testbed for quantum communication technology

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago ...

An 18-carat gold nugget made of plastic

Credit: ETH Zurich Lovers of gold watches and heavy jewellery will be thrilled. The objects of their desire may someday ...

Plants found to speak roundworm’s language

Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute have found that plants manipulate nematode pheromones to repel these pests, which cause more than ...

Machine learning shapes microwaves for a computer’s eyes

January 9, 2020

Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objectsCredit: Mohammadreza Imani, Duke University DURHAM, ...

Researchers discover new building blocks of catalyst zeolite nanopores