Tag: Research/Development

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Scientists seeking to bring to Earth the fusion that powers the sun and stars ...

Carbon nanotube tape stays sticky in extreme temperatures

Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness ...

Shared e-cargo bikes: boom and barriers in Basel

Sustainable means of mobility are becoming ever more popular. In Switzerland, around 15,000 people have registered with the online platform ...

UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature, unlike current technology

Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have ...

Tour de France pelotons governed by sight, not aerodynamics

Credit: Photo by Quino Al LOGAN, UTAH -- The 2019 Tour de France has just begun. As 190 riders speed ...

Pioneering Army researcher earns Presidential Early Career award

Credit: Army Research Laboratory A researcher from the Army's corporate research laboratory has received the Presidential Early Career Award for ...

Vitamin C is key to protection of exciting new nanomaterial

Credit: Texas A&M University Engineering In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of ...

Ben-Gurion University researchers train dogs to respond to haptic vibration commands

Modified haptic vest has applications for search and rescue, service animal programs -- presented in World Haptic Conference paperCredit: Jonathan ...

NSF funds Bridges-2 supercomputer at PSC

$10-million system will expand national capacity for coupled HPC, AI and data and serve nontraditional and traditional high-performance-computing communities A ...

The folds in our grey cells

Dr. Silvia Budday receives DFG funding for junior research group investigating the mechanics of the human brain. We all know ...

Blue light at night increases the consumption of sweets in rats

A new study demonstrates that just one hour of exposure to blue light at night - the kind of light ...

Quantum computing: Forschungszentrum Jülich and Google announce research partnership

Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Kurt Steinhausen Berlin / Mountain View / Jülich, 8 July 2019 - Forschungszentrum Jülich and Google ...

AJTMH tip sheet for July 2019

Your advance look at three new studies publishing online on July 8, 2019 in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine ...

Tracing the roots: Mapping a vegetable family tree for better food

Genetic testing developed by MU scientists could aid in developing new and healthier dietsCredit: University of Missouri Human genetic testing ...

GW pilot study finds collagen to be effective in wound closure

Researchers from the George Washington University have found that topical collagen powder is non-inferior to primary closure for punch biopsy ...

New technique allows real-time microscopy at high heat and loading

Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows them to track microscopic changes in metals or ...

Secure data protection in the new internet of things

Computer scientists are developing precision tools and infrastructureCredit: Harald Krieg The core idea of the team headed by Magdeburg project ...

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

Credit: University of Cambridge A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural ...

Collision course: Amateur astronomers play a part in efforts to keep space safe

July 4, 2019

Credit: Dstl Heavy traffic is commonplace on Earth but now congestion is becoming an increasing problem in space. With over ...

Research on sustainable conversion of lignn into valuable chemical compounds funded