Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory Rutledge keeps a small piece of
fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex. This tissue-like material,
softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a
human...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: Minnesota, United States
Genetically engineering plants is a time-intensive process. Methods currently
used to deliver genetic changes are imprecise, so it's often necessary to
generate thousands of plants to find one that happens to have the desired
alteration....
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Location: Bonn, Germany
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn,
Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have
detected two of the most complex molecules yet discovered in interstellar space:...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
A miniature telescope implanted into the eye could soon help people with
vision loss from end-stage macular degeneration. Last week, an advisory panel
for the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended that the agency
approve...
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: washington, United States
DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H.
psychedelica-A juvenile H. psychedelica hops along a coral
reef, its course even more precarious as it is buffeted by currents. Notice
how it curves its tail around to...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Havard, United States
This is not a direct way to test string theory just proposed Andrew Strominger and his colleagues, but it could become ... Using tools from this theory, they managed to deduct the entropy of black holes Kerr rotation extreme, such as GRS 1915 +10,...
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a simple, two-step chemical process to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon fuels. The compounds created during the process could also be used to make other industrial chemicals...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in
cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball
design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at
the...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: University of Utah, United States
Final results from the
University of
Utah’s High-Resolution Fly’s Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most
energetic particles in the universe...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat,
two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your
computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras
placed...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
A new National Aeronautics and
Space Administration study confirms that the surface temperature of
Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air
temperatures, and...
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Location: Department of Physics, Syracuse University, United States
Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse
University's Department of
Physics may help them identify the sound of a...
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