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Robotic Insects Achieve First Controlled Flight at Harvard

In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a…

Life & Chemistry

Concerns Over Unproven Stem Cell Therapies: Key Insights

The commentary is published online today in The EMBO Journal ahead of a debate in the Italian parliament on whether to change a recent law that allows certain…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Worms: Insights Into Regeneration Science

Prof. Eugene “Gene” Myers, one of the pioneers in bioinformatics, is affiliated with the group as a mentor. Together with his laboratory at the Max Planck…

Information Technology

Scientists Use Satellites, Underwater Robot to Study Atlantic Sturgeon Migrations

Researchers at the University of Delaware and Delaware State University are using satellites, acoustic transmitters, an underwater robot and historical records…

Earth Sciences

Geologists Study Mystery of 'Eternal Flames'

A little-known but spectacular flame in Erie County, N.Y., is the focus of an article in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology, co-authored by Agnieszka…

Information Technology

In Speed Test, Quantum Beats Conventional Computing

A computer science professor at Amherst College who recently devised and conducted experiments to test the speed of a quantum computing system against…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted with Planet Debris'

These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster is only 625…

Health & Medicine

Spontaneous Mutations Linked to Congenital Heart Disease

Although genetic factors contribute to congenital heart disease, many children born with heart defects have healthy parents and siblings, suggesting that new…

Life & Chemistry

Catalyst Extends Freshness of Fruit by Degrading Ethylene

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Japanese researchers have now introduced a new catalytic system for the fast and complete degradation of ethylene. This…

Life & Chemistry

Seabird Bones Uncover Shifts in Open-Ocean Food Chain

A research team, led by Michigan State University and Smithsonian Institution scientists, analyzed the bones of Hawaiian petrels – birds that spend the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Strategies for Achieving Net-Zero Energy Homes Unveiled

This disparity in useful energy data is just one of several information gaps that must be bridged as the United States transitions towards residences that…

Earth Sciences

New Spectroscopy Technique Enhances Greenhouse Gas Detection

The team, which recently published its findings in the journal Nature Photonics, says the technique also could work for other jobs that require gas detection,…

Life & Chemistry

Asian Lady Beetles: Nature’s Biological Warfare Uncovered

Once introduced for biological pest control, Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis populations have been increasing uncontrollably in the US and Europe since the…

Life & Chemistry

New Theory on Genesis of Osteoarthritis Comes with Successful Therapy in Mice

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have turned their view of osteoarthritis (OA) inside out. Literally. Instead of seeing the painful degenerative disease as a…

Studies and Analyses

Invasive Species: "Away-Field Advantage" Weaker Than Ecologists Thought

The away-field advantage hypothesis hinges on this idea: Successful invaders do better in a new place because the environment is more hospitable to them. They…

Environmental Conservation

Nation Equipped to Grow Serious Pond Scum for Fuel

Gulf Coast, Southeastern Seaboard especially favorable for algae growthA new analysis shows that the nation’s land and water resources could likely support the…

Physics & Astronomy

Team Sets Upper Limit for Atmospheric Depth on Uranus and Neptune

These giants are home to extreme winds blowing at speeds of over 1,000 km/hour, hurricane-like storms as large around as Earth, immense weather systems that…

Life & Chemistry

Top 10 New Species: Glow-in-the-Dark Cockroach & More

An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered top 10…

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CARTES 2013: Mobile Security and Trust from Brazil to Paris

The trade show will address the sector’s key issues, including mobile security, secure mobile commerce, digital identity and smart cities. CARTES Secure…

Life & Chemistry

Live and let die – Protein prevents immune cell suicide

Now, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) Braunschweig and at the Otto von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg have published their…

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