The latest advance in a new type of optics aimed at improving microscopy started with a game of tennis three years ago.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 1, 2018
0
20
For the first time, researchers isolated and characterized atomically thin 2-D crystals of pentagons bonded together in palladium diselenide (PdSe2). The research confirmed predictions that the puckered structure would be ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 1, 2018
0
319
Physiology may be one of the toughest courses that first-year medical students take as part of a curriculum that's filled with daunting amounts of complex information. However, researchers at the University of Illinois College ...
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2018
0
52
New research from UT Dallas indicates that values should play a bigger role in the study of science in schools.
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2018
0
3
Computers may better predict taxi and ride sharing service demand, paving the way toward smarter, safer and more sustainable cities, according to an international team of researchers.
Business
Mar 1, 2018
0
22
A team of researchers with members from several institutions in France, Brazil and Sweden has discovered two new strains of giant viruses, which they note have "the most complete translational apparatus of the known virosphere." ...
NASA's InSight spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California to begin final preparations for a launch this May. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, today and arrived ...
Space Exploration
Mar 1, 2018
0
78
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably.
Space Exploration
Mar 1, 2018
0
57
During the height of the California drought that began in late 2011, Los Angeles imported 89 percent of its water from more than 200 miles away—an energy-intensive process. After a yearlong reprieve, Southern California ...
Environment
Mar 1, 2018
0
31
Italy is usually associated with relatively warm weather, but this week it, too, has fallen victim to the cold snap nicknamed the Beast from the East.
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2018
0
11
