More than 80 years ago, Model As rolled out of the gleaming new Ford assembly plant at the edge of the San Francisco Bay. Today the brick "daylight factory" with tall ceilings and an open floor plan is where state-of-the-art ...
Robotics
Jul 16, 2015
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We all know that injuries happen and doctors sometimes have to use metal screws or plates to support broken bones while the bones heal. What if that implanted metal just disintegrated on its own after the injury heals?
Materials Science
Jul 15, 2015
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Traumatic injuries, whether from serious car accidents, street violence or military combat, can lead to significant blood loss and death. But using a material derived from crustacean shells, scientists have now developed ...
Materials Science
Jun 25, 2015
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A team of researchers has created a new implantable drug-delivery system using nanowires that can be wirelessly controlled.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 23, 2015
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Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented the first practical, scalable method for synthesizing jiadifenolide, a plant-derived molecule that may have powerful brain-protecting properties.
Biochemistry
Jun 15, 2015
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While inching along congested roadways, California drivers will often see motorcyclists zip by, eking out a path in the narrow space between two lanes of cars. This practice of passing other vehicles traveling in the same ...
Other
Jun 1, 2015
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At the southernmost extremes of the planet lives a fish different from all other vertebrates on Earth.
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2015
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When it comes to vehicle safety, car buyers get what they pay for. That's the finding of University at Buffalo research presented today, May 14, at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Other
May 15, 2015
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A small earthquake has rattled a wide swath of greater Los Angeles, shaking buildings downtown.
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2015
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21
Few organs in the body are as complicated as the human brain, a tight spiderweb of neurons that shoots electrical signals across synapses to control all our thoughts and movements. When something goes wrong—as it does when ...
Materials Science
Apr 2, 2015
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