A UConn researcher has identified a mutant plant that offers insight into how plants produce cell walls, which may ultimately reap applications for agricultural productivity and biofuel production.
Biotechnology
Sep 17, 2015
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What's a few protons, one way or another? A great deal, according to Dr. Morris Bullock and Dr. Monte Helm at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists in their invited review article.
Materials Science
Sep 17, 2015
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A new exhibit at the McMaster Museum of Art brings together years of painstaking research by an international team of scientists, engineers, conservators and art historians who have used sophisticated equipment and techniques ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 17, 2015
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A new prototype from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Jie Cheng could give a second wind to turbines that currently waste Mother Nature's strongest breaths.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 17, 2015
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Researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital have developed a system that can take MRI scans of a patient's heart and, in a matter of hours, convert them into a tangible, physical model that surgeons can use to plan ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 17, 2015
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Down the drain. It's a phrase synonymous with lost opportunities. In semiarid regions, opportunity for improved water supply and security literally goes down the drain every time episodic rainstorms pass through.
Environment
Sep 17, 2015
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When people talk to each other, there are plenty of opportunities for communication problems to occur. Sometimes we don't hear individual words correctly, at other times, contexts are not clear. Or we are unsure if we have ...
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2015
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Rapid decontamination of an aqueous solution by a freely moving microscrubber: this scenario has been realized by American scientists for the sequestration of CO2 from water. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, they introduce ...
Materials Science
Sep 17, 2015
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It may not quite be the Matrix, but videogames giant Sony took fans on a journey into its own virtual reality on Thursday when it unveiled its revamped Morpheus headset at the annual Tokyo Game Show.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 17, 2015
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Wild songbirds that prefer to eat at bird feeders have an increased risk of acquiring a common eye disease. In turn, these birds also spread the disease more quickly to their flock mates, according to an international research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2015
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