All News

Earth Sciences

Plant Stress Paint Reveals Drought Impact Early

Healthy vegetation requires a certain amount of water from the soil every day to stay alive, and when soil moisture falls below adequate levels, plants become…

Materials Sciences

NASA Investigates Use of ‘Trailblazing’ Material for New Sensors

Technologist Mahmooda Sultana, who joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., two years ago and has since emerged as Goddard’s go-to expert…

Environmental Conservation

Exploring Climate Change Through Long-Term Ecological Research

“Long-term ecological research is important to understanding the effects of a changing climate on our natural resources and so much more,” said Michael T….

Physics & Astronomy

Accelerating Electronics: Switching Rates Hit 100 Billion Cycles

Modern information processing allows for breathtaking switching rates of about a 100 billion cycles per second. New results from the Laboratory for Attosecond…

Earth Sciences

California's N2O emissions may be nearly triple current estimates

Berkeley Lab researchers devise a new method to estimate state’s greenhouse gas emissionsUsing a new method for estimating greenhouse gases that combines…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Identify Great Earthquake Hot Spots Worldwide

But where along these extended subduction areas are great earthquakes most likely to happen? Scientists have now found that regions where ‘scars’ on the…

Earth Sciences

U.S. Wildfire Risk Grows: Insights from NASA’s Climate Models

Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the new analysis of future U.S. fire activity. The analysis was based on current…

Architecture & Construction

Protecting Historic Limestone Buildings with Innovative Coatings

Buildings and statues constructed of limestone can be protected from pollution by applying a thin, single layer of a water-resistant coating.That’s the word…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Thermodynamics: Atoms in Space Interactions

No man is an island, entire of itself, said poet John Donne. And no atom neither. Even in the middle of intergalactic space, atoms feel the electromagnetic…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

South Farms Pig Gains Global Attention in Genome Sequencing

Funding that came through ACES allowed Schook and others to put together the Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium, an alliance of university, industry, and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Optical Tweezers Capture Nanometer-Scale Specimens

To grasp and move microscopic objects, such as bacteria and the components of living cells, scientists can harness the power of concentrated light to…

Health & Medicine

Snoring Solutions: Prevent Heart Issues Linked to Sleep Apnea

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have the same early cardiovascular damage as diabetics, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging…

Business and Finance

Despite End of Recession, Family Reliance on Wives’ Income Remains at Record Level

“If history is a good guide, it is likely that wives’ share of total family earnings will not return to pre-recession levels, but rather, the Great Recession…

Life & Chemistry

Research Shows Iron's Importance in Infection, Suggests New Therapies

The collaborative research — led by Phillip Klebba, professor and head of the department of biochemistry — clarifies how microorganisms colonize animal hosts…

Physics & Astronomy

Voyager 1 Cruising on a ‘Magnetic Highway’

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new region on the outskirts of our solar system that appears to be a magnetic highway for charged particles….

Environmental Conservation

Qatar and PIK Launch First Climate Change Research Institute

It will be the first of its kind “in a country whose wealth is founded on fossil fuels,” PIK’s director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber said. “Qatar declares to…

Feedback