News tagged with postdoctoral fellow

Novel filter metal-organic framework material could cut natural gas refining costs

A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money – and lower their environmental impacts – by eliminating ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study: Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s

While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 77

Learning from lizards

The speedy lizard was streaking across the tabletop when suddenly one foot hit a slippery spot.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Jupiter's moon Europa, potential new habitat for life

In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (38) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Study: Women aren't becoming engineers because of confidence issues

Women are less likely than men to stay in engineering majors and to become engineers because they want to have families and are more insecure about their math abilities, right? Not necessarily, suggests a new study in the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Cod resurgence in Canadian waters

Cod and other groundfish populations off the east coast of Canada are showing signs of recovery more than 20 years after the fisheries collapsed in the early 1990s, according to research published today in ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gatekeepers: Study discovers how microbes make it past tight spaces between cells

There are ten microbial cells for every one human cell in the body, and microbiology dogma holds that there is a tight barrier protecting the inside of the body from outside invaders, in this case bacteria. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Industry support of academic life science research may be dropping

While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships - particularly direct funding for research ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0