An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers. Chemical engineers and materials…
U.S. Federal health agencies have started to tighten security surrounding the research on deadly pathogens. The move is to enhance public safety, but some fear…
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….
Authored by leading scientists at top institutions, the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) is a resource that joins deeply detailed cancer genome data with predictors…
NASA has requested a $17.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2013 which includes $4 billion for space operations, $4 billion for exploration activities in the…
The solar-powered Juno spacecraft that was launched in 2011 to improve our understanding of Jupiter’s formation and evolution just completed the mission’s first trajectory correction…
Cornell researchers are using exploratory surgeries on mice to further their understanding of spinal cord injuries. By surgically implanting a window with a transparent panel…
A groundbreaking dendritic cell vaccine study is underway at the Center for Immunotherapy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Researchers at RCPI began a phase 1…
The recent NASA satellite image shows that La Niña is peaking in intensity, increasing the odds that the southern and southwestern United States will remain…
MIT researchers discovered a new algorithm that is faster than the Fourier transform. This new algorithm is based on two key ideas: divide a signal…
A group of renowned researchers combined their interests in the high-pressure studies of water, condensed matter physics, and the discovery of new chemistries to predict…
It took a three-hour series of thruster-engine firings for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to pull off the maneuver to refine its flight path while…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needs stronger, lighter, and more resilient materials that can be used in any number of applications from armor, to…
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
The Cornell CAC has recently received an award for excellence in the field of high performance computing. The award was given to them from the…
It seems that inefficiency isn’t always a bad thing. Recent research shows that dynein, a motor protein, has a “strut” like motion instead of the…
New research in the fight against breast cancer and prostate cancer could produce positive results. Researchers discovered a way to stop Myc-driven cancer cells by…
Researchers at MIT have published their work on the reconstruction of the Wyoming Province. Despite billions of years of turmoil beneath the Earth’s crust, the…
