Transparent transistors fabricated onto the sharp curves of a tiny glass tube are paving the way toward a therapeutic advance for the nearly 10 percent of the U.S. population who have diabetes.
Analytical Chemistry
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Trees falling as fragile forests become cropland is a visual shorthand for the environmental costs exporting countries pay to meet lucrative global demands for food. Yet a new study reveals a counterintuitive truth: Importing ...
Environment
May 7, 2018
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An international research team led by scientists at Beihang University in China and The University of Texas at Dallas has developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures.
Nanomaterials
May 7, 2018
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Scientists drilling deep into ancient rocks in the Arizona desert say they have documented a gradual shift in Earth's orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000 years, playing a role in natural climate swings. Astrophysicists ...
Earth Sciences
May 7, 2018
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News agencies welcomed Monday what they called a "major step" by the EU parliament's legal committee asking internet giants to pay for press articles.
Internet
May 7, 2018
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A field study published in JNeurosci of tropical fish in Central America reveals how the animals use electric fields to communicate in their natural habitat to accomplish coordinated behaviors including mating and reproduction.
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2018
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Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant will leave the company after it's acquired by Germany's Bayer AG.
Business
May 7, 2018
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Billionaire Warren Buffett recommends that investors stick with simple stock index funds—not bonds and especially not bitcoins.
Business
May 7, 2018
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Oysters build extensive reef communities by cementing to one another early in their lives. Scientists have known they secrete an adhesive for this purpose, but new research shows the glue they make as babies and juveniles ...
Materials Science
May 7, 2018
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A Northwestern-led synthetic biology research team has combined technologies to develop a new biotech technique that promises to accelerate research into protein therapies that could one day become the next defense against ...
Biochemistry
May 7, 2018
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