“Mediocre to Awful” State Science Standards Could Jeopardize U.S. Competitiveness
A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the United States K-12 state science standards reports that “the majority of the states’ standards…
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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy have published a new study examining how spider webs respond…
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The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
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Scientists working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) discovered a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic…
Neuroscientists Decode Correlation Between Sound and Brain Activity
UC Berkeley neuroscientists are hoping to be able to hear the unsaid words of patients in the near future. While conducting their research, they were…
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The Little Ice Age (LIA), a mysterious period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period and extended from the 16th into the 19th…
Researchers Developing Handheld Pathogen Detector
Cornell professors are combining their inventions in an effort to develop a handheld pathogen detector for developing world countries. The device works by “amplifying” very…
Intercontinental Crop Losses Caused by Ozone
Researchers at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with the University of York, published a new study showing the extent of the Northern Hemisphere’s intercontinental…
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Thanks to their keen vision, jumping spiders have been able to get the advantage on their prey in the invertebrate world. However, scientists have been…
MSU Researchers Show How New Viruses Evolve Through Mutations
Researchers at Michigan State University are studying how viruses evolve and potentially become deadly mutations. For the first time ever, scientists were able show how…
‘Blue Marble’ Image of the Earth Taken from NASA’s Suomi NPP Satellite
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP, captured this “Blue Marble” image of Earth on January 24, 2012 using the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite. As you…
Scientists Create Stem-Cell-Derived Neurons from Alzheimer’s Disease
For the first time ever, Scientists from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have created functional human Alzheimer’s neurons in a dish. The…
Physicists Measure the Propagation Velocity of Quantum Signals
Physicists from the Quantum Many-Body Systems division at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Geneva have…
Viruses Use Bacteria for Reproduction
MIT researchers are studying how viruses use bacteria to support the replication of their own DNA. Viruses in phosphorus-starved regions of the ocean are able…
Scientists Make 3D Objects Invisible to Microwave Wavelengths
After years of progress, scientists are now coming closer and closer to making real-world objects disappear from view. Researchers from the University of Texas at…
Chemists Work on Synthetic Cell Creation
Chemists Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin are working on the creation of a “synthetic cell.” Their goal is to create a living organism from non-living…
33,000 Year Old Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave
An ancient domesticated do skull was found in a Razboinichya cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Using an accelerator mass spectrometry and radiocarbon dating,…
Sandia Chemists Use MOFs to Remove Radioactive Gas from Nuclear Fuel
A research team, comprised of Sandia chemists, is researching ways to make nuclear fuel reprocessing cleaner and to reduce the volume of high-level wastes. By…
