Newswise — A team of Florida State University researchers has uncovered a way to use low-energy light to manipulate photopolymers or plastic films — a finding that has implications for a wide range o… [+2897 chars]
An international team of scientists found that sociality is not linked to intestinal nematode infection in Asian elephants. The researchers looked at loneliness and characteristics of the elephants' … [+5397 chars]
Design and formation of thermoresponsive gating particles (PNIPAM@RS100) A schematic representation of the thermoresponsive PNIPAM gating system for controlled delivery is shown in Fig. 1. The porou… [+20271 chars]
If you’ve been meaning to update your resumé, there’s an opportunity for you to add “worked on a NASA project.” Or even more intriguingly, “Jovian Vortex Hunter.” That’s because NASA is looking for c… [+1830 chars]
Get ready for space hydroponics. Interstellar Salad Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are need… [+1754 chars]
Photo credit: John Liu, via Flickr (cropped). How can Darwinians really enjoy awe and gratitude when believing that everything made itself by chance with no purpose or plan? Well, here is some aweso… [+7718 chars]
Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death - a stellar explosion called a supernova - but emerged from it bri… [+3233 chars]
The emerging field of valleytronics, which exploits the momentum preference of excited electrons, or excitons, in a variety of optoelectronic devices, is closely tied to the fabrication of novel 2D m… [+6888 chars]
image: A team of researchers, including NAU assistant professor Jason Ladner, conducted a genetic study of snake fungal disease that was recently published in PLOS Biology,view more Credit: Norther… [+9348 chars]
After months of scrutinizing photographs of the lunar surface, scientists have finally found the crash site of a forgotten rocket stage that struck the far side of the moon in March. They still do n… [+6731 chars]
High-energy neutrinos are highly fascinating subatomic particles produced when very fast charged particles collide with other particles or photons. IceCube, a renowned neutrino detector located at th… [+5300 chars]
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