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Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., March 7, 2017 - Chemists at the University of California, Irvine have developed ...

Synchrotron sheds (X-ray) light on carbon chemistry at ocean surfaces

WASHINGTON D.C., March 7, 2017 -- Nature's carbonate system, the dynamic chemistry involving carbon dioxide (CO2), carbonate (CO32-), bicarbonate (HCO3-), ...

ORNL study examines tungsten in extreme environments to improve fusion materials

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 7, 2017--A fusion reactor is essentially a ...

Copper mining with bioactive substances derived from bacteria

Credit: C) HZDR / 3Dkosmos Chile is one of the most important suppliers of copper to German industry. Within the ...

Designing the fuel-efficient aircraft of the future

Loading video... Credit: Sean Cunningham, TACC As much as we complain about air travel, the fact is, flying has gotten ...

Hexagonal boron nitride enables the fabrication of 2-dimensional electronic memories

Credit: Copyright Wiley-VCH 2017. Reproduced with permission from the authors. The use of two dimensional (2D) layered materials to improve ...

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a ...

Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields

Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" ...

A new approach to improving lithium-sulfur batteries

Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson/University of Delaware Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are the power behind most modern portable electronics, including cell phones, ...

New types of structures for cage-like clathrates

Cage-like compounds called clathrates could be used for harvesting waste heat and turning it into electricity. UC Davis chemists just ...

New method rescues donor organs to save lives

Loading video... Credit: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--March 6, 2017--A multidisciplinary team led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Mikati Foundation Professor ...

Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its ...

Fluciclovine PET/CT improves radiotherapy targeting for recurrent prostate cancer

Credit: Ashesh B. Jani, MD, and David Schuster, MD, Emory University. Reston, Va. (March 6, 2017) - The featured clinical ...

New deep learning techniques analyze athletes’ decision-making

Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but ...

Biophysicists propose new approach for membrane protein crystallization

Credit: MIPT Press Office A team of scientists from the Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins at MIPT, Research ...

New evidence for a water-rich history on Mars

Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to ...

Sandia scientist named fellow for diverse contributions to aeronautics, space research

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Gary Polansky, the chief scientist for hypersonic technology development and applications at Sandia National Laboratories, has been ...

3-D printing with plants

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks ...

$2.8M in federal grants to JAX scientists to target triple-negative breast cancers

Two grants from the U.S. Department of Defense totaling $2.8 million will support Jackson Laboratory (JAX) research in one of ...

Doctoral student’s research looks at cause of neurodegenerative disease