During those 72 hours the Solar Impulse team was able to test the human challenge posed by long flights and gain valuable insights for the round-the-world…
“From an early age, I was fascinated by what I could smell and how I reacted to it and by how flavor works and things like that,” said John G.Hildebrand, a…
The findings, which appear in the current issue of the journal Science, provide new insights into nerve cell communication in the brain that could also play a…
H5N1 influenza has been at the center of heated discussions in science and policy circles since the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity…
The immune system protects from infections by detecting and eliminating invading pathogens. These two strategies form the basis of conventional clinical…
Ania Bleszynski Jayich, an assistant professor of physics who joined the UCSB faculty in 2010, spent a year at Harvard working on an experiment that coupled…
Capacitors are like batteries in that they store and release energy. However, capacitors use separated electrical charges, rather than chemical reactions, to…
“Looking at the success of electronics over the last century, I have always wondered why we should be limited to electric current in making circuits,” said…
The grant shall be used to accelerate the search for active agents to treat diseases that are caused by protein misfolding. These include Alzheimer’s and…
Only 10 years ago, deciphering the genetic information from one individual in a matter of weeks to find a certain disease-causing genetic mutation would have…
University of Illinois at Chicago biologist Thomas Park and colleagues at UIC and the University of Texas Heath Science Center at San Antonio think the…
University at Buffalo engineers have developed a one-step, low-cost method to fabricate a polymer with extraordinary properties: When viewed from a single…
Engineers at Harvard have demonstrated a new kind of tunable color filter that uses optical nanoantennas to obtain precise control of color output.Whereas a…
Yet this knowledge could be “a matter of life and death,” says University of Vermont biologist Bryan Ballif.While blood transfusion problems due to Langereis…
For that, they rely on a network of sites that serve as “you are here” signs planted throughout the world. The catch is, the sites don't sit still because…
The loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs is a topic that can provoke heated arguments about globalization. But what do the cold, hard numbers reveal? How has the…
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