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Physics & Astronomy

World’s Most Complex 2D Laser Beamsteering Array Demonstrated

Most people are familiar with the concept of RADAR. Radio frequency (RF) waves travel through the atmosphere, reflect off of a target, and return to the RADAR…

Studies and Analyses

In minutes a day, low-income families can improve their kids' health

“Children whose families engaged with each other over a 20-minute meal four times a week weighed significantly less than kids who left the table after 15 to 17…

Life & Chemistry

New Brain Research Reveals Faster Memory Recognition

31 test subjects were charged with the task of identifying words they had been shown previously. Recognition was triggered in significantly less than half a…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Sends Mona Lisa to the Moon via Laser Technology

The iconic image traveled nearly 240,000 miles in digital form from the Next Generation Satellite Laser Ranging (NGSLR) station at NASA's Goddard Space Flight…

Physics & Astronomy

Titan’s Dune Makeover: Exploring Innovation on Saturn’s Moon

“Most of the Saturnian satellites – Titan's siblings – have thousands and thousands of craters on their surface. So far on Titan, of the 50 percent of the…

Health & Medicine

Stroke Survivors With PTSD Less Likely to Seek Treatment

A new survey of stroke survivors has shown that those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are less likely to adhere to treatment regimens that reduce…

Health & Medicine

Emphysema Severity Linked to Increased Mortality Risk

“Ours is the first study to examine the relationship between degree of emphysema and mortality in a community-based sample and between airway wall thickness…

Health & Medicine

Simple Blood Test Identifies High-Risk Trauma Patients

A simple, inexpensive blood test performed on trauma patients upon admission can help doctors easily identify patients at greatest risk of death, according to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UGA Researchers Create New Material for Warm-White LEDs

Light emitting diodes, more commonly called LEDs, are known for their energy efficiency and durability, but the bluish, cold light of current white LEDs has…

Life & Chemistry

Halogen Bonds: Enhancing Drug Discovery Through Chemistry

Halogen chemistry has been exploited by medicinal chemists for nearly 70 years. To date, halogens were regarded useful for optimization of so-called ADMET…

Life & Chemistry

UNC-45 Protein: Key to Muscle Formation and Stability

Researchers of CECAD, the Cluster of Excellence at the University of Cologne, Germany, and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna,…

Life & Chemistry

Neurobiology of Predation vs. Grazing: New Insights Revealed

Researchers in the group of Ralf Sommer at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, have for the first time been able to…

Life & Chemistry

IMP Scientists shed light on the “dark matter” of DNA

Genome sequences store the information about an organism’s development in the DNA’s four-letter alphabet. Genes carry the instruction for proteins, which are…

Physics & Astronomy

New Innovations in Simulation: Preparing for Earth’s Future

The planet Earth will die – if not before, then when the Sun collapses. This is going to happen in approximately seven billion years. In the universe however…

Materials Sciences

Snail Teeth Innovation Boosts Solar Cells and Battery Efficiency

An assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering is using the teeth of a marine snail found off the coast of…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA'S Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

“Completing Aft Optics System performance testing is significant because it means all of the telescope's mirror systems are ready for integration and testing,”…

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