Location: Cambridge, United States
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look
in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him.
In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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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: University of Minnesota, United States
Researchers at the
University of
Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have
discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
A new thin-film coating developed at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology can deliver controlled drug doses to specific
targets in the body following...
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Location: University of California, Merced, United States
Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore...
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Location: Princeton University, United States
Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance:
Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water
apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature.
The simple fact...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
As the United Nations climate negotiations proceed in Bali, Indonesia,
researchers have taken a first step toward quantifying the "socioclimatic"
exposure of different countries to future climate change.
The research team from
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Location: Purdue University, United States
Researchers who study severe weather and climate
change joined forces to study the effects of global...
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Location: Vanderbilt University, United States
There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help
organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number
of hypotheses,...
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Location: Michigan State University, United States
A mouse created by Michigan State University scientists studying a disease thought to be a neurological disorder that weakens men has exposed two surprises: Testosterone appears to be the culprit and it’s...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
Scientists since the early '90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots. Then the plants break certain kinds of pollutants into harmless...
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Location: Nanoscale Science Department, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, United States
Investigators from the research groups of Dr. Klaus Kern at the Max
Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (MPI) and of Mario
Ruben at the
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Location: NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Inhaled depleted
uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard
and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for illness in both...
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Location: 5801 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 773-702-1234, United States
If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will
find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit,
methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid
regions. These...
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Location: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0212, United States
Carbon-rich meteorites that crash to Earth carry a wealth of information from
far-flung regions of outer space. Now, it seems that some extraterrestrial
baggage survives the long journey intact. A new study shows that carbon
molecules known...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new
technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used
in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquids.
Researchers have...
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