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Materials Sciences

New Material Aims to Solve Heat Issues in Computer Chips

The heat that builds up in the shuttling of current in electronics is an important obstacle to packing more computing power into ever-smaller devices: Excess…

Environmental Conservation

When Trees Aren’t ‘Green’

Most of us don’t consider forests a source of pollution. As natural bodies, they should be good for the environment. But a recent study in Japan shows that…

Life & Chemistry

Virtual Reality Reveals How We Navigate in the Dark

A series of immersive virtual reality experiments has now confirmed that the human brain’s internal navigation system works in the same fashion as the grid…

Health & Medicine

Dusty Secrets: Farm Compounds That May Aid Asthma Relief

The project's goal is to identify compounds present in dust in the farm environment that may be protective against asthma. Findings from this study could lead…

Materials Sciences

Cells Get Star Treatment: A*STAR’s Innovations in Healing

Tissues and organs in the body are sometimes damaged to such an extent that they require artificial support to heal. Now, A*STAR researchers have used…

Interdisciplinary Research

Metallic Glass Innovations: Understanding Alloy Flaws

A study from A*STAR reveals that designers of metallic-glass-based nanodevices must account for tiny flaws in alloy frameworks to avoid unpredictable…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Into Grand Canyon’s Age From Western Studies

The age of the Grand Canyon (USA) has been studied for years, with recent technological advances facilitating new attempts to determine when erosion of this…

Earth Sciences

Tropical storm Carlos lingering off Mexico's southwestern coast

On June 12 at 15:00 UTC (11:00 a.m. EDT) NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured a visible image of tropical storm Carlos that showed bands of thunderstorms being…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Cell Density Stability in Aging Brain

The study, of cognitively normal young and old adults, was published in the journal NMR in Biomedicine.

Machine Engineering

FlexPulse: Customizable Picosecond Pulses for Laser Applications

The increasing demands in laser material applications require high flexible and comprehensive laser systems.

Physics & Astronomy

New Electron Accelerator at Mainz Achieves Key Milestone

As the production of two superconducting accelerator modules for the future electron accelerator MESA (“Mainz Energy-Recovering Superconducting Accelerator”)…

Life & Chemistry

Helicobacter Pylori’s Role in Gastric Cancer Uncovered

Around half of the global population is chronically infected with the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, almost 1% of whom go on to develop gastric…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Tracks Tropical Cyclone Ashobaa Approaching Oman

NASA's Terra satellite passed over Ashobaa on June, 11 at 06:35 UTC (2:35 a.m. EDT). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument…

Awards Funding

Cleanliness Technology Prize Honors Innovative Disinfection System

This year, the jury was won over by two contributions: an innovative particle-cleaning system with an integrated photodynamic process for disinfecting…

Environmental Conservation

Increased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plants’ ability to absorb nutrients

Researcher Johan Uddling has been working with Swedish and international colleagues to compile data on how raised levels of carbon dioxide impact on plant…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Telescope detects 'sunscreen' layer on distant planet

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as…

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