A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country. The composite of inedible agricultural waste and mushroom…
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from…
Indeed, finer than human hair, five times stronger by weight than steel, and three times tougher than the top quality man-made fiber Kevlar, spider dragline…
The study found that nearly one third of students with ADHD, twice the proportion as students with no psychiatric disorder, either drop out or delay high…
Fusion powers the stars and could lead to a limitless supply of clean energy. A fusion power plant would produce 10 times more energy than a conventional…
During this 2010 “Sort Benchmark” competition – the “World Cup of data sorting” – the computer scientists from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering…
Switchgrass is now grown as a cattle feed and to restore depleted soils. But interest in using it as a biofuel has intensified in recent years because it can…
“This minimally invasive technique for localized prostate cancer offers the potential to destroy the cancer without making any incision or causing any…
“Rectifying diodes are the fundamental building blocks in electronics,” says Tuo-Hung Hou, describing the research. “Diodes made of oxide materials instead of…
“HFE determines solubility and allows accurate prediction of a compound's path in a complex environment,” says author Maxim Fedorov of the Max Planck Institute…
Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the…
“Bioreplication began about 2001 or 2002,” said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. “All the techniques currently…
In biology and genetics, the concept of epistasis is what gives rise to the whole being more (or less) than the sum of its parts. The quantitative effect of a…
High-Reynolds-number flows (which are prone to turbulence) are critically important in aeronautics, naval applications, energy conversion processes,…
This complex investigation required the use of high-resolution sidescan sonar and remotely operated underwater vehicles to locate sea disposed munitions in…
Using chemical “nanoblasts” that punch tiny holes in the protective membranes of cells, researchers have demonstrated a new technique for getting therapeutic…
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