Since the beginning of August, NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain.
A novel B1-mapping technique (B1-TRAP) is presented, which offers a good compromise with respect to speed, robustness and accuracy.
The researchers' aim is to enhance a human operator's ability to perform precise tasks using a multi-jointed robotic device such as an articulated mechanical…
The research findings appear in the September issue of Physical Review Letters. “Black hole bombs and photon mass bounds” is co-authored by Emanuele Berti, UM…
Carbon dioxide is the predominant so-called “greenhouse gas” that acts as sort of an atmospheric blanket, trapping the Earth’s heat. Over time, an abundance of…
Now, a new analysis supports the notion that the troughs are faults that formed when a fellow asteroid smacked into Vesta's south pole. The research reinforces…
Products from 22 companies based in Guadeloupe and Martinique (two French départements in the Caribbean) and in Réunion Island (in the Indian Ocean) will be in…
More than 50 percent weight savings in aircraft construction is now possible using hypermodern production techniques. A process called 3-D laser sintering of…
“The process by which a retrovirus invades the host germ line appears to be quite drawn out in this case, so that the koala population has suffered the…
The research will appear in the Journal of Biological Chemistry’s October edition and currently is available online.“It’s a big breakthrough for us,” says…
“Outdoor Recreation in the Northern United States,” a report recently published by the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station as GTR NRS-100,…
“We've found that hundreds of new genes are involved in the function and development of these cells,” said co-author Richard Bonneau, an associate professor at…
Since that time, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on this mysterious animal, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats.A…
Bryan Yoon, the study’s co-author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, found that last summer during Hurricane…
Both studies shed light on more than a decade of debate on the origin and prevalence of remotely triggered earthquakes. Until now, distant but damaging…
While the scientists expected the leptin-deficient fish would be unable metabolize fat, “we did not expect that the leptin also affects the development of…