Quantum computers hold the promise of offering a new route to solving some classes of these problems, such as breaking encryptions. The tremendous computing…
t the severity of tissue injury or destruction from a choked-off blood supply varies from person to person, and may depend in large part on whose circulatory…
Entrepreneurs with a commercial plan to use the EGNOS satellite navigation signal have a chance to make their vision a reality by applying for the Special…
Regarding the key role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an important driving force for innovations, there is an explicit need to improve…
A protein complex, which is an important link in a cellular transport chain, also initiates the assembly of the next link in the chain. This newly-won insight…
Packaging anti-cancer drugs into particles of chemically modified silica improve the drugs' ability to fight skin cancer in mice, according to new research….
They might not be known for their big brains, but fruit flies are helping to make scientists and doctors smarter about what causes Huntington’s disease and how…
QDs can be moved with “optical tweezers” – a system that sets up a gradient of forces from multiple laser beams – or by electrophoresis, in which a microscopic…
This is especially pronounced if there is an extended period of time separating the crime and the testimony. This is what Angela S. Ahola, Department of…
The first two types of supernova are either hot, young giants that go out in a violent display as they collapse under their own weight, or old, dense, white…
“In some areas there will indeed be masses, and there will be big masses of grasshoppers,” said Richard Zack, an associate professor of Entomology at…
Kids in the classroom are learning how technology works by fabricating 3-D copies of their favorite things. Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab –…
The flow of particles, although seemingly random, can be characterized more effectively, according to work done by Virginia Tech’s Shane Ross of the…
New findings from computer modeling indicate that some of those exoplanets might fluctuate between being habitable and being inhospitable to life because of…
“The findings mean that future studies of exoplanetary systems will be more complicated. Astronomers can no longer assume all planets orbit their parent star…
Not all explosions are created equal – it's as true for film effects as it is for stars. An international team of scientists, including a University of Arizona…
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