Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, United States
A new technique for printing extraordinarily thin lines quickly over wide
areas could lead to larger, less expensive and more versatile electronic
displays as well new medical devices, sensors and other technologies.
Solving a...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for
everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But
researchers at the University of
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Location: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Energy, United States
TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope —
capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth
of a meter), less than the diameter of a single
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts
poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to
a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Denizens of oceans, lakes and even wet soil, diatoms are unicellular algae
that encase themselves in intricately patterned, glass-like shells. Curiously,
these tiny phytoplankton could be harboring the next big breakthrough in
computer...
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Location: British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom
The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica’s most
rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature
Geosciences. The volcano on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet erupted 2000 years ago
(325BC) and...
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Location: University of California, Merced, United States
Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good.
Recent research by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
A study led by McGill
University researchers has demonstrated that small differences between
individuals at the
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Location: Princeton University, United States
Beyond its role as the elixir of all life, water is a very unusual substance:
Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water
apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature.
The simple fact...
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Location: Schepens Eye Research Institute, United States
Scientists at Schepens
Eye Research Institute have found that people with low vision can improve
their ability to see and enjoy television with a new technique that allows them
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Location: University of Pennsylvania, United States
University of Pennsylvania
engineers and physicians have developed a carbon nanopipette thousands of times
thinner than a human hair that measures electric current and delivers fluids
into...
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Location: Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), United States
Tracking the location and availability of resources such as hospitals,
transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can be
life-saving.
A collaborative mapping tool developed by the
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: University of Illinois, United States
Researchers at the University
of Illinois have found a simple solution to a problem that has plagued
scientists for decades: the tendency of...
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Location: Cornell University, United States
Neutron stars and black
holes aren’t all they’ve been thought to be.
In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously
believed, and...
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Location: Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, United States
Using new techniques for rapidly scanning the human genome, researchers have
associated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, two fats in the blood, to 18
genetic variants, six of which represent new
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Location: University of Minnesota, United States
University of Minnesota
researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory.
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the
University of Minnesota...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
In studies involving more than 35,000 people and a survey across the entire
human genome, an international team supported in part by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) has found evidence...
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