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Chemists Devise Revolutionary 3-D Bone-Scanning Technique

Sep. 8, 2016 — A scanning technique for bones has been created that does not expose patients to X-ray radiation but provides exceptional 3-D images from which diagnoses and prognoses can be made. Their technique ... read more

Smartphone Hacks 3-D Printer by Measuring 'Leaked' Energy and Acoustic Waves

Sep. 7, 2016 — Researchers illustrate how smartphones, due to their ubiquity and sophisticated gadgetry, can easily hack 3-D printers by ... read more

Textile Fiber Waste Helps Improve the Sustainability of Materials

Sep. 7, 2016 — Researchers have developed a panel with textile waste that improves both the thermal and acoustic conditions of buildings and reduces the energy impact associated to the ... read more

Smart Buoy for Measuring Water Pollutants

Sep. 8, 2016 — All over the world, lakes, rivers, and coastal waters are threatened by high nutrient inputs. Nitrate or phosphates from waste-waters or fertilizers causes eutrophication. ... read more

Algorithm Detects Online Fraudsters

Sep. 8, 2016 — An algorithm makes it easier to determine if someone has faked an Amazon or Yelp review or if a politician with a suspiciously large number of Twitter followers might have bought and paid for that ... read more

Telemedicine Is as Effective as in-Person Visits for Children With Asthma

Sep. 8, 2016 — Sometimes children with asthma live hundreds of miles away from the nearest allergist and therefore may not be getting the best and most cost-effective care. According to a new study, treatment via ... read more

Avoiding 'Traffic Jam' Creates Impossibly Bright 'Lighthouse'

Sep. 8, 2016 — The central energy source of enigmatic pulsating Ultra Luminous X-ray sources (ULX) could be a neutron star according to numerical simulations. ULXs, which are remarkably ... read more

The Enigma Machine Takes a Quantum Leap

Sep. 6, 2016 — Researchers have moved beyond the theoretical in demonstrating that an unbreakable encrypted message can be sent with a key that's far shorter than the message -- the first ... read more

A First for Direct-Drive Fusion

Sep. 6, 2016 — New experiments have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that's five times higher than the current record laser-fusion energy yield, as long as the ... read more

The Perfect Car, According to Science

Sep. 7, 2016 — What does the ideal car look like? A new study used a morphing technique and consumer choice model to quantify how the aesthetic design of US car models affects ... read more

'Robo-Taxis' Roam Around the Streets of Singapore

British Officials Want A Worldwide Ban On Microbeads In Cosmetics

Wearable Device Delivers Automatic Support for Weak Muscles

The First Star-Visiting Probe Will Need Some Ambitious Engineering

Containing Our 'Electromagnetic Pollution'

Sep. 8, 2016 — Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere -- that's been the case since the beginning of the universe. But the proliferation of electronics in recent decades has contributed both to the volume of ... read more

Deriving Inspiration from the Dragon Tree

Sep. 8, 2016 — Could dragon trees serve as a source of inspiration for innovations in lightweight construction? A team of researchers has laid the groundwork for designing technical fiber-reinforced lightweight ... read more

New Technology Could Be Game Changer for Providing a 'Voice' for Hospitalized Patients

Sep. 8, 2016 — There are almost 800,000 patients in the U.S. who are intubated and require mechanical ventilation annually. More than half of these patients are awake, alert and desperately attempting to ... read more

Negative Experiences on Facebook Linked to Increased Depression Risk in Young Adults

Sep. 8, 2016 — Negative experiences on Facebook may increase the risk of depressive symptoms, suggesting that online social interactions have important consequences for mental health, a unique new study of young ... read more

Saskatchewan Uranium Mining Emits Few Greenhouse Gases, Study Shows

Sep. 8, 2016 — The mining and milling of Canadian uranium contributes very few greenhouse gases to nuclear power’s already low emissions, a research group has ... read more

Posting Personal Experiences on Social Media May Help You Remember Them in the Future

Sep. 7, 2016 — Posting personal experiences on social media makes those events much easier to recall, a new study -- the first to look at social media's effect on memory -- has ... read more

Humans May Be Uniquely Identified by the Proteins in Their Hair

Sep. 7, 2016 — Unique protein markers in hair could be used alongside DNA profiling for human identification, according to a new ... read more

Fuel Cell Membrane Outperforms Market: 'Goldilocks' Membrane Is Just About Right

Sep. 7, 2016 — Industrial interest is expected in a vehicular fuel cell membrane able to excrete protons at the most effective temperature ranges, allowing electrons to form an unimpeded electric ... read more

Reconciling Dwarf Galaxies With Dark Matter

Sep. 7, 2016 — Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent some of the biggest mysteries about our universe. While many dwarf galaxies surround our own ... read more

Atomic Scale Pipes Available on Demand and by Design

Sep. 7, 2016 — Researchers have discovered how to create the smallest ever water and gas pipes that are only one atom in ... read more

Breakthrough in Materials Science: Scientists Bond Metals With Nearly All Surfaces

Sep. 7, 2016 — How metals can be used depends particularly on the characteristics of their surfaces. A research team has discovered how they can change the surface properties without affecting the mechanical ... read more

Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding

Sep. 7, 2016 — When you have too many robots together, they get so focused on not colliding with each other that they eventually just stop moving. Georgia Tech's new algorithms are different: they allow any ... read more

Introducing Diversity in Online Language Analysis

Sep. 7, 2016 — For the past 30 years, computer science researchers have been teaching their machines to read standard English -- for example, by assigning back issues of the Wall Street Journal -- so computers can ... read more

New Perovskite Research Discoveries May Lead to Solar Cell, LED Advances

Sep. 7, 2016 — 'Promising' and 'remarkable' are two words a scientist has used to describe recent research results on organolead mixed-halide perovskites. Perovskites are optically active, ... read more

Sugar Transforms a Traditional Chinese Medicine Into a Cruise Missile

Sep. 7, 2016 — Chemical biologists report that tests of triptolide in human cells and mice are vastly improved by the chemical attachment of glucose to the triptolide ... read more

New Service Improves Cloud Storage Usage on Mobile Devices

Sep. 7, 2016 — Researchers designed and developed StoArranger, a service to intercept, coordinate and optimize requests made by mobile apps and cloud storage services. StoArranger works as a 'middleware ... read more

Tapping the Unused Potential of Photosynthesis

Sep. 7, 2016 — Scientists have reengineered the fundamental process of photosynthesis to power useful chemical reactions that could be used to produce biofuels, pharmaceuticals and fine ... read more

New Way of Taming Ions Can Improve Future Health Care

Sep. 7, 2016 — A group of researchers has discovered a completely new way of using lasers to accelerate ion beams. In time, the new technique could possibly give more people access to advanced cancer ... read more

Neutron Crystallography Aids in Drug Design

Sep. 7, 2016 — Knowledge of H-bonding networks, water molecule orientations and protonation states, along with details of hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions, can prove vital towards a better understanding ... read more

Novel Nanoscale Detection of Real-Time DNA Amplification Holds Promise for Diagnostics

Sep. 7, 2016 — A novel label-free method of measuring DNA amplification in real time has now been developed by researchers. The technique detects changes in the refractive index of a laser beam passing through a ... read more

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