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Earth Sciences

Suomi NPP satellite spots ex-Tropical Cyclone Emeraude's remnants

On Mar. 24 at 07:42 UTC (3:42 a.m. EDT) the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a…

Medical Engineering

New Live-Imaging Technique Enhances Mouse Brain Studies

University of Oregon scientists have looked into the brains of living mice to see in real time the processing of sensory information and generation of…

Life & Chemistry

Magnetic Forces Control Neurons: Insights on Glucose Metabolism

Jeffrey Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, and colleagues successfully employed this system to study the…

Life & Chemistry

Microfluidic Devices Rotate Cells and Organisms with Precision

The research, published today in Nature Communications, was led by Tony Jun Huang, professor of engineering science and mechanics and Huck Distinguished Chair…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Gene Expression: The Key to Protein Production

Your DNA governs more than just what color your eyes are and whether you can curl your tongue. Your genes contain instructions for making all your proteins,…

Life & Chemistry

New Reaction Creates Versatile Chiral Building Blocks

Researchers in the Doyle lab at Princeton have developed a direct cross-coupling reaction to produce nitrogen-containing compounds called 1,2-dihydropyridines,…

Materials Sciences

Drexel Researchers Develop New Method for Invisible Dirt-Repelling Brushes

You might not be aware of it, but invisible carpets of polymers are keeping things from being sticky right now. The lenses of your glasses might be coated with…

Life & Chemistry

Key Signaling Molecule β-Arrestin Uncovered in Cell Communication

International scientists led by Carsten Hoffmann and Martin Lohse of the University Würzburg, Germany, identified for the first timeβ-Arrestin as an…

Life & Chemistry

Marine bacteria are essential for coral reef health

An entire reef habitat examined

Environmental Conservation

'Watchdog' for greenhouse gas emissions

The signatory countries of the Kyoto Protocol and the new Paris Agreement have committed to reduce global warming. The countries themselves use estimates and…

Physics & Astronomy

UMass Amherst astronomers report most 'outrageously' luminous galaxies ever observed

Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the Universe, objects so bright…

Health & Medicine

Scientists distinguish molecules most capable of fighting prostate cancer

A team of researchers from the four research centers — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow State University, National University of Science and…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular “Light Switch” Analysed Using Neutron Scattering

LOV proteins are very popular with molecular biologists; with their help, it is possible to turn biological processes on and off almost at the flick of a…

Life & Chemistry

Modeling to save a rare plant

Human activities continue to expand. At the same time, an increasing number of plants face habitat loss and fragmentation. In fact, more than 700 plants are…

Materials Sciences

Optimized analytics reduce “false negatives” in the detection of nanoparticles

Many everyday products and our environment contain nanoparticles, and there is increasing interest in finding them. The particles and their sizes are commonly…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Nanoscale Innovation with Microwave Microscopy

Now, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a…

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