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UC Santa Barbara: A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations
For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power...
Jan 21
WashU: Coyote genes may show urban evolution at work
A new study outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adaptable carnivores spotted...
Jan 21
MIT: A new way to determine whether a species will successfully invade an ecosystem
MIT physicists develop a predictive formula, based on bacterial communities, that may also apply to other types of ecosystems, including...
Jan 21
Texas A&M: Texas A&M Researchers Develop Breakthrough One-Step Flame Retardant For Cotton Textiles
Although extremely flammable, cotton is one of the most commonly used textiles due to its comfort and breathable nature. However, in a...
Jan 21
UC DAVIS: The Hunt Narrows for Ebolavirus Hosts
Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not...
Jan 21
University of Southern California: Study links PFAS contamination of drinking water to a range of rare cancers
In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found an association between levels of manmade...
Jan 21
University of Wisconsin–Madison: Project to explore enzyme behind early evolution of life on Earth
Betül Kaçar, associate professor of bacteriology, likes mysteries. And there is, maybe, no larger mystery than the origins and early...
Jan 21
Boston University: We Have Lift-Off: BU Telescope heads For The Moon
At 1:11 am on January 15, NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft blasted into the sky from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding...
Jan 21
Georgia Tech: New Wearable Device Monitors Joint Pain
Samer Mabrouk started playing squash as an undergraduate at Georgia Tech. Ankle injuries were to be expected, and resting for a few days...
Jan 21
Purdue University: Purdue aims to speed evolution of pharma manufacturing in collaboration with Lilly and Merck
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University, in collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company and Merck & Co. Inc., announced Friday (Jan. 17)...
Jan 21
MIT: An abundant phytoplankton feeds a global network of marine microbes
One of the hardest-working organisms in the ocean is the tiny, emerald-tinged Prochlorococcus marinus. These single-celled...
Jan 7
University of Arizona: Brain study challenges long-held views about Parkinson's movement disorders
University of Arizona researchers have revealed new insights into one of the most common complications faced by Parkinson's disease...
Jan 7
Yale: How electrical synapses fine-tune sensory information for better decisions
Scientists at Yale and the University of Connecticut have taken a major step in understanding how animal brains make decisions, revealing...
Jan 7
Stanford: A new ultrathin conductor for nanoelectronics
Researchers at Stanford Engineering have developed an ultrathin material that conducts electricity better than copper and could enable...
Jan 7
MIT: New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
MIT engineers designed a nanofiltration process that could make aluminum production more efficient while reducing hazardous waste. Used...
Jan 7
ASU: The meteorite effect
On Nov. 9, 1923, Harvey Nininger saw his future explode across the Kansas sky. He would become perhaps the single most accomplished...
Jan 7
University of Arizona: Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each other in a...
Jan 7
NC State University: How We Classify Flood Risk May Give Developers, Home Buyers a False Sense of Security
Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas threatened by...
Jan 7
UC Irvine: New mechanism discovered that triggers immune response in cells with damaged DNA
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 6, 2025 — A research team from the University of California, Irvine has revealed a previously unknown mechanism that...
Jan 7
University of Virginia: Generation X Is in the Bullseye for Lead Exposure, Harms to Mental Health
N ew research from the University of Virginia has found people born between the late 1960s and mid-1980s in the United States experienced...
Jan 7
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