UCLA researcher highlights advances in nanotechnology's fight against cancer
(Phys.org) —As cancer maintains its standing as the second leading cause of death in the U.S., researchers have continued their quest for safer and more effective treatments. Among the most promising...
View ArticleNASA rigs up snorkel in spacesuit after risky water leak
Snorkels in space? NASA dreamed up the idea as a quick fix to a dangerous spacesuit problem so astronauts can step out to repair an equipment breakdown at the International Space Station.
View ArticleBacteria to aid sutainable sugarcane production
Scientists have discovered a bacterium that could reduce the use of fertiliser in sugarcane production and improve yield.
View ArticleEurope launches billion-dollar Milky Way telescope (Update)
The European Space Agency on Thursday launched an advanced telescope designed to detect a billion stars and provide the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way and our place in it.
View ArticleThe rise and fall of galactic cities
(Phys.org) —In the fable of the town and country mice, the country mouse visits his city-dwelling cousin to discover a world of opulence. In the early cosmos, billions of years ago, galaxies resided in...
View ArticleNew data compression method reduces big-data bottleneck
(Phys.org) —In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the...
View ArticleNewly discovered raptor lived alongside T. rex
(Phys.org) —It's been a big year for the University of Alberta's Phil Currie, even by his standards as one of the world's top dinosaur hunters. He's lead instructor on Dino 101. This summer, he had a...
View ArticleStudies suggest boreal forests can handle oilsands development
(Phys.org) —Ongoing work by University of Alberta researcher Scott Chang is providing cautious optimism about how forest soil and trees are coping with oilsands development in Northern Alberta.
View ArticleStudy: Potential benefits of pinewood char as synthetic fuel source
(Phys.org) —Researchers at Purdue University have successfully tested the conversion of large particles of pinewood char in a gasification process, a step necessary for the mass production of synthetic...
View ArticleResearchers grow liquid crystal 'flowers' that can be used as lenses
(Phys.org) —A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for...
View ArticleResearchers sequence and analyse sugar beet genome
A study published in Nature today describes the sugar beet reference genome sequence generated by researchers both from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Max Planck Institute for Molecular...
View ArticleMountain erosion accelerates under a cooling climate
The Earth's continental topography reflects the balance between tectonics, climate, and their interaction through erosion. However, understanding the impact of individual factors on Earth's topography...
View ArticleAcrobatic birds aren't as energetic as they look
In research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B scientists have found that the acrobatic courtship displays of male golden-collared manakins are less energetically costly than...
View ArticleAvegant plans to show headset with virtual retinal display at CES
(Phys.org) —Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Avegant on Wednesday announced that a Kickstarter campaign will launch on January 22 on behalf of its product Glyph, a $499 headset. Glyph is also to go on display...
View ArticleColloidal suspensions of microspheres in a liquid may not be simple systems
(Phys.org) —A colloidal suspension is a mixture in which microscopic particles of one substance are dispersed in another and because of its properties does not "settle" in the way that one might expect...
View ArticleResearch trio crack RSA encryption keys by listening to computer noise
(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers in Israel has discovered that it is possible to crack 4096-bit RSA encryption keys using a microphone to listen to high-pitch noises generated by internal computer...
View ArticleResearchers describe how to cause older Apple computers to video record...
(Phys.org) —Two researchers at Johns Hopkins University have posted a research paper outlining a way to remotely control a computer webcam (on MacBook and iMac computers) without causing the in-use...
View ArticleResearchers team up on potential fuel cell advance
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory put together clues from experiments and theory to discover subtle variations in the way fuel cells generate electricity – an advance that could lead...
View ArticleThe origin of flowers: DNA of storied plant provides insight into the...
The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's "abominable mystery"—the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated on Earth millions of years ago. The genome sequence sheds new...
View ArticleElectron's shapeliness throws a curve at supersymmetry
A small band of particle-seeking scientists at Yale and Harvard has established a new benchmark for the electron's almost perfect roundness, raising doubts about certain theories that predict what lies...
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