Argonne invents reusable sponge that soaks up oil
Credit: Photo by Mark Lopez/Argonne National Laboratory When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the ...
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Ancient stardust sheds light on the first stars
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser An international team of astronomers, led by Nicolas Laporte of University College London, have used the [Atacama ...
Nonsurgical treatment for enlarged prostate remains effective for years
WASHINGTON (March 8, 2017) -- A minimally invasive treatment that reduces urinary tract symptoms for men with enlarged prostates maintains ...
Lung cancer may go undetected in kidney cancer patients
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - March 7, 2017 - Could lung cancer be hiding in kidney cancer patients? Researchers with ...
RIT helps advance space camera being tested on ISS
Imaging technology advanced by researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology and Florida Institute of Technology is being tested on the ...
Snake bit? UCI chemists figure out how to easily and cheaply halt venom’s spread
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 ...
