At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting in a Spectrum prototype unit. Scientists and engineers working on the Spectrum project are developing new hardware for the ...
Space Exploration
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For the first time, scientists have reported in-situ diffraction experiments measuring deformation twinning at the lattice level during shock compression. The results were recently published in Nature by a team of researchers ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 27, 2017
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A collaborative group of researchers including Petr Kral, professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describe a new technique for creating novel nanoporous materials with unique properties that can be ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2017
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Two-dimensional materials have been successfully assembled into devices with the smallest possible man made holes for water desalination.
Nanomaterials
Oct 27, 2017
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Eager to help local communities during the 2008 financial crisis, Claire Dunning, then a fresh college graduate, took a program assistant position at a Boston foundation. A historian by training, she was struck by the nonprofit ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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Research has long shown that women who enter college intending to pursue a career in science abandon that path more frequently than their male peers, with many citing poor grades and large gateway classes as reasons for their ...
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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Massive offshore structures like oil rigs and wind turbines are designed to withstand the myriad punishments oceans tend to mete out. However, over time, just the saltwater itself can significantly decrease the durability ...
Materials Science
Oct 27, 2017
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When it comes to judging the fairness of electoral districts, we can't believe our eyes.
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2017
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A honey bee researcher who earned her doctorate at Montana State University in July had her dissertation research published in a scientific journal in the same month.
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2017
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Physicists have proposed a way to test quantum gravity that, in principle, could be performed by a laser-based, table-top experiment using currently available technology. Although a theory of quantum gravity would overcome ...
