A low-cost prototype device described in a recent paper* can run up to eight separations simultaneously in a space about the size of a quarter, highlighting…
Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an elusive engineering goal. Inspired by spider silk, a naturally occurring…
The discovery, reported last week in Environmental Science and Technology,* could resolve a long-standing mystery surrounding occasional mass fish kills on the…
At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has generated extremely short light pulses using a new technique…
This idea is looking better than ever now that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have made nanodot…
The fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons will make its closest pass to Jupiter on Feb. 28, threading its path through an “aim point” 1.4 million…
Though doctors have promoted the value of exercise for a variety of disorders for years, “exercise training has not been definitively established as safe in…
The six-month study of homeless youth in Albuquerque found that teens who completed the program significantly reduced their substance abuse and depression and…
A new study sheds some light on the complex design of tears. What we think of as tears, scientists call tear film, which is made up of three distinct,…
Patients with high blood pressure are more likely to develop new-onset diabetes than those who don’t have hypertension, but this tendency is often attributed…
More and more, conventional inorganic semiconductor electronics are being complemented with organic components. For example, flexible displays, large…
Israel lies along the Syrian-African rift, one of the world's major fault lines. A major earthquake hits the region approximately once every hundred years, and…
Diana Hsueh at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues collected corn from nearly 70 locations in the United States and Canada. They found that…
“By combining conventional techniques with more modern techniques, we were able to better diagnose and determine the best options for patients with oral…
A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops fall from a cloudburst onto bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of…
Plants wouldn't have been able to move from water to land 400 million years ago if they hadn't evolved this ability, which protects them from losing too much…
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