Engineered Nanoparticles Deliver Antibiotics Directly to Bacteria
If an effort to target bacteria that has become increasingly resistant to existing drugs, engineers specializing in nanomedicine and biomaterials have developed a nanoparticle that…
New Drug CD47 Could Potentially Shrink and Cure All Tumors
New research indicates that there could be a single drug that could shrink or cure all types of cancer, whether it’s breast, ovary, colon, bladder,…
Solid-State Laser for Military Applications Exceeds Initial Design Goals
Northrop Grumman successfully tested their next-generation high-energy, solid-state laser in the company’s Redondo Beach laboratory. The laser burned through the critical components of a target…
Evolutionary History of Cypress Tree Reflects the Breakup of Pangaea
New research from biologists at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich examines the evolutionary history of the cypress tree, finding that their origins can be traced…
Hyperparasite Fungus Limits the Effects of ‘Zombie-Ant’ Fungus
New research on a parasite that fights zombie-ant fungus, an infestation that takes over the brain and then ejects its spores out of the ant’s…
Physicists Predict Properties of Prime Numbers from Freezing Liquids
Physicists from Queen Mary’s School of Mathematical Sciences, together with colleagues from Bristol University, discovered a pattern in frozen glasses that relates to prime numbers….
Non-Experts Use Online Crowd-Sourcing to Diagnose Malaria
UCLA engineers have taken online crowd-sourcing a step further. By creating a crowd-sourced online gaming system in which players distinguish malaria-infected red blood cells from…
Black Hole Rips Apart a Helium Rich Star
Data captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope show direct evidence of a supermassive black hole using its powerful gravitational forces to…
View the Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower From Halley’s Comet
Star gazing fans will get to enjoy the peek display of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower from Halley’s Comet on the night of May…
New Technique Predicts How Hydrogels Transform
Hydrogels have been in the marketplace for a long time, offering diverse properties that make them ideal for applications on a number of consumer products….
Exploring Graphene-Based THz Devices
Future communication devices may get a big boost in efficiency from terahertz waves and graphene. In a newly published study, scientists at the University of…
Graphene Center Laboratory is State of the Art “Nano-Factory”
Graphene is an amazing material offering high strength, transparency, and flexibility with excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, all from a single layer of carbon atoms….
Corkscrew Lava Coils Seen on Mars in Athabasca Valles
NASA’s HiRISE spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Mars, spotted these interesting patterns, which are actually rare lava flows. This is the first time that lava…
Resveratrol Interacts With SIRT1 Gene for Health Benefits
New research from Harvard Medical School shows that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, interacts with a key gene in mitochondria, providing prolonged lifespan…
Pigeons Ability to Hear Magnetic Fields Finally Linked to the Lagena in Inner Ear
New research has showed that the individual neurons in the brains of common pigeons could relay crucial information about the Earth’s magnetic field, potentially providing…
4D Imaging of Breathing Lungs
A new 4D dynamic functional lung imaging method developed by engineers at Monash University will allow health professionals a chance to study breathing lungs in…
Columbia Glacier Retreating to the Sea in Alaska
It took seven years, but the photographic record of the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound on Alaska’s southern central Pacific coast has been compiled…
APEX Provides Images of Dust near Orion’s Belt
New images captured by Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope show clouds of cosmic dust threaded through the nebula Messier 78. The images were created by overlaying…
