What an age we live in. This summer marks the very first opposition of Pluto since New Horizons' historic flyby of the distant world in July 2015. If you were like us, you sat transfixed during the crucial flyby phase, the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2016
0
23
REDD+ aims to save and protect tropical forests, thus playing a major role in combating climate change and protecting biological diversity. However, many tropical countries lack the necessary forest monitoring method required ...
Environment
Jun 15, 2016
0
22
Synthetic biology involves creating artificial replica that mimic the building blocks of living systems. It aims at recreating biological phenomena in the laboratory following a bottom-up approach. Today scientists routinely ...
Biochemistry
Jun 15, 2016
0
5
New Zealand could dramatically reduce outbreaks of invasive species if it selectively chose its international trade partners, research from Victoria University of Wellington suggests.
Ecology
Jun 15, 2016
0
5
Plants are more vulnerable to toxic nanoparticles if their parents were grown in contaminated soil, according to the first multi-generational study on the safety of cerium oxide nanoparticles in agriculture, published in ...
Biotechnology
Jun 15, 2016
0
15
Try shaking a colleague's left hand with your right hand. It just doesn't work, does it? Your right palm and her or his left palm cannot mesh comfortably because hands are chiral objects, having non-superimposable mirror ...
Materials Science
Jun 15, 2016
0
15
A simple and inexpensive method to make a range of cyclic monomers has been developed by A*STAR researchers. These new monomers were used to make biodegradable polymers with potential applications from drug or gene delivery ...
Polymers
Jun 15, 2016
0
6
One of the biggest problems in designing electronic components is getting rid of excess heat. Now, A*STAR researchers have found a simple way to vary the heat flow in graphene, a breakthrough that will improve attempts to ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2016
0
12
A long-running debate among traffic engineers has been resolved by two A*STAR researchers who have discovered that two seemingly very different models of traffic flow in cities actually have similar underlying mathematical ...
Mathematics
Jun 15, 2016
0
34
Microprocessors are at the heart of devices such as computers, smart phones and iPads. In the Texas Architecture and Compiler Optimization (TACO) lab at Texas A&M University, Dr. Daniel Jiménez, professor in the Department ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 15, 2016
0
13
