University of Utah biologists devised a new technique to rapidly determine the job performed by particular genes in laboratory animals, according to a report. The method can do in days what once took a year.
University of Arkansas researchers have found a novel physical effect of systems used in ultrasound and sonar that is ten times stronger than current methods used in these techniques. This large ratio of physical change to electric effect may be used one day to create more sensitive and more portable sonar devices and medical ultrasound equipment.
Astronauts sleep poorly in space, and it's no wonder. Just consider: the excitement of blasting off on a powerful rocket, the strange sensations of free-fall, the novelty of mornings that return every 90 minutes... Who could sleep through all that? Nevertheless, astronauts must get their rest, and medical researchers are trying to help. New research is pointing the way to a better night's sleep on the ISS ... and beyond.
Coffee beans spilled upon a table form no pattern, they're a mess, their distribution dictated by the laws of chance. The same was generally believed true of atoms deposited upon a substrate. Now, the first vision of a peaceable kingdom in which deposited atoms form orderly, controllable 2-D nanopatterns has been observed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.
To create high-yield nuclear fusion that will ultimately produce cheap electric power from sea water, researchers must be able to evenly compress a BB-sized pellet so that its atoms are forced to fuse.
Thermo Finnigan, a Thermo Electron business, has entered into an agreement for an exclusive license of a protein identification software enhancement known as "SALSA" (Scoring ALgorithm for Spectral Analysis).
The National Science Foundation will host leading researchers at a syposium and exhibition of nanoscale science and engineering on Thursday, September 13.
A study of deregulation's past impact on several safety-critical industries provides valuable insight into the factors affecting safety of deregulated nuclear power plants.
Can you imagine giving birth to a child the size of a six-year-old? Or not being able to eat or breathe properly for the last third of pregnancy? Welcome to the unique world of the Australian stumpy-tailed lizard!
An Adelaide University spin-off company, has just signed three contracts worth over 2 million dollars that will place Australian meteorological expertise on the world stage.
Terrill Cool, professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University, has been awarded $354,000 by the Department of Energy for a three-year study of combustion chemistry.
Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell University, has been awarded a $1.3 million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation to produce and study polymer microphotonics.
Two members of the Cornell University faculty--Robert C. Richardson, the Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics and vice provost for research and Paul M. Kintner Jr., professor of electrical and computer engineering--have been named to NASA committees overseeing the agency's budget and management of space science programs.
New research has revealed a surprising connection between red tides in the Gulf of Mexico and giant dust clouds that blow across the Atlantic Ocean from the distant Sahara Desert.
When it comes to predicting boundary conditions of fluids flowing over solid surfaces, the textbooks are all wet, say researchers at the University of Illinois.
By colliding two laser beams head-on, scientists at the University of Illinois can measure the movement of chromatin (tiny packets of DNA) in the nucleus of a living cell.
In the foothills of the Alaska Range, the last 150 years have been warm by historical reckoning, scientists report. However, they note, two other lengthy periods of climatic warmth appear to have occurred in that region during the last 2,000 years.
A successful full-scale test of the carbon-injection process for removing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants tested a commercial activated carbon and a corn-derived activated carbon developed by researchers at Illinois .
University of Utah chemists have developed a catalytic reaction that uses oxygen to help eliminate undesirable forms of alcohol - a new technique they hope will become a clean and inexpensive way to manufacture medicines.
In a study published in the August 30 edition of the journal "Nature," two professors at the University of Maryland have discovered that genes involved in speciation are indeed located very close to each other on the genome.
Wildfires break out in unexpected places, then they do things that surprise firefighters. But maybe such fires won't always be so unpredictable.
Researchers at Cornell University say they are well advanced in creating a polymer of silkworm silk that both mimics and improves on nature, they reported at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society at McCormick Place, Chicago.
By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope, researchers at Cornell University have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes, and have learned how to feel the force of a single electron as it hops on and off the tube, they reported at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Severe, long-term complications of diabetes, a growing health problem that affects an estimated 16 million Americans, may be reduced with new treatments based on an 'enzyme mimetic' that has been shown to significantly improve the functioning of blood vessels and nerves in diabetic animal studies, as reported in the September issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology.
Using such novel tools as a small catamaran and a fish finder that can show what orca whales are feeding on up to a quarter of a mile beneath the ocean surface, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals' plummeting population.
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has signed a new industrial partner: SGI Inc. (NYSE:SGI), formerly known as Silicon Graphics
Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug candidates may soon be heading for the express check-out lane.
Scientists at Purdue University are creating a biological sensor for glucose in research that ultimately may help to design "intelligent drug delivery" devices that could be implanted in the body to administer medications such as insulin.
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered a unique gene modification in adult human cancer cells that could provide insight into the cause of certain types of lymphoma and possibly other cancers.
Photovoltaics-the high-tech approach to converting sunlight directly into electricity-could be low cost and widely practical if based on organic "self-asssembling" thin film technologies, say scientists at the University of Arizona.
Walter Munk, considered by many to be one of the world's greatest living oceanographers, will be awarded the inaugural Prince Albert I Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
System-on-a-chip (SOC) is the hottest new approach to making electronics smaller, faster and cheaper and University of Arkansas researcher Alan Mantooth is working on a computer model that will make producing SOCs feasible for consumer products.
A team that includes University of Michigan School of Information researchers will receive $10 million from the National Science Foundation to build a virtual laboratory, or "collaboratory," through which engineers can design and test earthquake-safe structures.
Development of a national cyber-network for earthquake engineering research will begin in earnest with a $10 million award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Along with Stanford University, FSU was elected to the now 16-member Joint Oceanographic Institutions. As a member, FSU joins such prestigious organizations as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California-San Diego and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.Â
Dr. William S. Hancock has been named editor of Journal of Proteome Research, a new scientific publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
IEEE Spectrum visits one of China's largest dams.
Grown-ups are gleefully turning smart Lego bricks into autonomous gadgets.
Smart autos and advanced algorithms will help keep cars from crashing into each other.
Chemical engineers are getting closer to developing a method for taking insulin and other medications orally instead of by injection and will discuss new findings during an American Chemical Society meeting Aug. 26.
As thousands of acres burn across the western United States, scientists are flying over wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, measuring mercury emissions in their smoke. A team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research is conducting experiments to create a better picture of the global sources of atmospheric mercury.
Last weekend an amateur astronomer found a new comet the old-fashioned way.
A University of Arkansas team will work in zero gravity to test a sample collector for a proposed NASA mission that one day may bring asteroids to Earth from space.
Two scientists will get married on stage at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. Lisa Danielson and Will Stefanov are geologists. The public is invited to donate old bridesmaid's dresses.
A University of Arkansas researcher has compared the family trees of fruit flies and their host cacti and found that evolutionary "jumps" to different types of plant hosts have occurred throughout time, suggesting that ecological specialization can occur repeatedly from the same species pool.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft has spotted curious icy spires jutting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto.
Scientists from the University of North Carolina schools of medicine and pharmacy have teamed up to develop a new way to calculate the stability of cellular proteins. The research could eventually have an impact on the way proteins for new drug development are designed and engineered.
BD Biosciences and Thermo Finnigan, a Thermo Electron business (NYSE:TMO), have developed an innovative technique for isolating specific cell types in complex biological samples and then identifying low-abundance proteins from those cells.
Working with large-scale computer simulations, a team of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln modeled four new kinds of crystalline ice, all by adjusting the diameter of a carbon nanotube by less than one-quarter of a nanometer.
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