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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sep. 7, 2016 Unique protein markers in hair could be used alongside DNA profiling for human identification, according to a new ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sep. 7, 2016 Researchers have discovered how to create the smallest ever water and gas pipes that are only one atom in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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