SpaceX launches staph infection experiment to ISS today
University of FloridaUniversity of Florida scientist hopes to learn what happens if you get infected with Staphylococcus aureus while in space.
University of Florida scientist hopes to learn what happens if you get infected with Staphylococcus aureus while in space.
An international team that includes Rutgers University–New Brunswick scientists has developed a new method to make and manipulate a widely studied class of high-temperature superconductors.
There has been a lack of basic research centered on women’s health. But times are changing, says Kristin Myers. And it’s about time.
Researchers demonstrate the growth of cobalt nanoclusters on two-dimensional copper surfaces using an array of ring-shaped crown ether molecules.
Our built environment is aging and failing faster than we can maintain it. Recent building collapses and structural failures of roads and bridges are indicators of a problem that’s likely to get worse, according to experts, because it’s just not possible to inspect every crack, creak and crumble to parse dangerous signs of failure from normal wear and tear. In hopes of playing catch-up, researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering are trying to give robotic assistants the tools to help inspectors with the job.
A lot of factors go into an individual’s comfort, and it’s more than just how one feels about the temperature.
Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate change.
Raeanna Sharp-Geiger will leverage her experience as chief operations officer for Argonne National Laboratory.
Scientists using Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source have developed a multipurpose nanomaterial to aid in sustainable manufacturing.
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is the recipient of an inaugural U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Engines Program award. The NSF Engines: Piedmont Triad Regenerative Medicine Engine is a regional project that provides an innovation ecosystem to stimulate workforce development, job creation, and economic growth through the development of technologies that benefit the emerging industry.
Argonne collaborates with Purdue University on new research aimed at lowering the cost of developing small nuclear reactors.
For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that exist in widely used chemicals known as siloxanes, or silicones.
Visual Sample Plan, a free software tool developed at PNNL that boosts statistics-based planning, has been recognized with a 2024 Federal Laboratory Consortium Award.
Sal Rodriguez, a nuclear engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, is forging a rocket revolution with the help of the University of New Mexico and student Graham Monroe.
Under the direction of principal engineer Yuhu Zhai, PPPL is building its new High-Field Magnet Test Facility, which will provide powerful magnets for scientific experiments to researchers at both PPPL and Princeton University, as well as private companies along the mid-Atlantic coast.
The pore-like structure of permeable pavements may help protect coho salmon by preventing tire wear particles and related contaminants from entering stormwater runoff, according to a Washington State University study.
A team of researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has established the Synthetic Biology Manufacturing of Advanced Materials Research Center to work across disciplines to find nature-inspired alternatives to plastics.
Argonne provides graduate students with high-level mentorship and first-hand experience on their theses and STEM journeys
As an engineer of high-performance molecular qubits, Q-NEXT collaborator and UChicago grad student Chloe Washabaugh takes on the erudite, the everyday and everything in between.
A good shoe can make a huge difference for runners, from career marathoners to couch-to-5K first-timers. But every runner is unique, and a shoe that works for one might trip up another.
The proposed marketplace, named “Retriever,” reduces delay, improves user experience, and is transparent and fair for real-time Web 3.0 services.
The team examined a commercially available battery-electric aircraft with two seats, the “Pipistrel Alpha Electro”, in the life cycle assessment.
Scientists are working to ramp up the U.S. rubber market by advancing methods to extract latex from two sustainable North American plant sources: a dandelion species and a desert shrub.
Conducting neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.
We are tasking our computers with processing ever-increasing amounts of data to speed up drug discovery, improve weather and climate predictions, train artificial intelligence, and much more.
A breakthrough technology has been developed that enables the production of green hydrogen in a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner, bringing us closer to a carbon-neutral society by replacing expensive precious metal catalysts.
Researchers led by Keiji Numata at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the RIKEN Pioneering Research Cluster, have succeeded in creating a device that spins artificial spider silk that closely matches what spiders naturally produce.
For the first time, scientists have successfully trapped atoms of krypton (Kr), a noble gas, inside a carbon nanotube to form a one-dimensional gas.
Plumber’s nightmare structure presents itself as an assemblage where all exits seem to converge inward—a plumber’s nightmare but an anticipated uniqueness for researchers, suggesting distinctive traits divergent from traditional materials.
Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a new, more environmentally friendly way to create conductive inks for use in organic electronics such as solar cells, artificial neurons, and soft sensors. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, pave the way for future sustainable technology.
Researchers combine traditional mathematical approaches and cutting-edge machine learning methods for improved analysis of building structures.
Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the same style as nature's most efficient swimmer - the Aurelia aurita jellyfish.
Climate change has increased the demand for renewable energy sources, driving hydropower development.
Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimisation, according to new research.
Evanston, IL In a paper to be published in Science Jan. 18, scientists Chad Mirkin and Sharon Glotzer and their teams at Northwestern University and University of Michigan, respectively, present findings in nanotechnology that could impact the way advanced materials are made.
A team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering will kick off the second phase of an ambitious research project that aims to transform navigation and accessibility for many of the 285 million people with blindness and low vision (pBLV) worldwide.
With support from the Q-NEXT quantum center, scientists leverage nanoscale-research facilities to conduct pioneering precision studies of qubits in silicon carbide, leading to a better understanding of quantum devices and higher performance.
10 postdoctoral researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were recently recognized at the laboratory’s 2023 Postdoctoral Performance Awards, which were presented in a ceremony on Nov. 9.
Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Dr. Amr S. Helmy, have developed a new method for integrating electro-optic SiO2/ITO heterointerfaces into MIS structures.
FAU received a $2.6 million grant from the NSF to establish a scholarship program in the burgeoning and critical field of cybersecurity. The NSF’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service program seeks to increase the number of qualified cybersecurity professionals working for federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments.
Sandia engineer Tony Garcia recognized with a prestigious 2023 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers STAR of Today award for technical achievement.
Just like a book can’t be judged by its cover, a material can’t always be judged by its surface. But, for an elusive conjectured class of materials, physicists have now shown that the surface previously thought to be “featureless” holds an unmistakable signature that could lead to the first definitive observation.
The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what’s really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.
Researchers from Osaka University and their collaborating partners improve the efficiency of thermoelectric conversion from a semiconductor, which could help optimize the efficiency and sustainability of the global digital transformation.
Houston’s water and wastewater system could be more resilient with the development of hybrid urban water supply systems that combine conventional, centralized water sources with reclaimed wastewater, according to a study by Rice University engineers published in Nature Water.
Eutrophication of lakes is a global environmental issue, and polluted inflowing rivers are important external factors leading to lake eutrophication.
RUDN University professor strengthened ordinary concrete with epoxy resin. The author was the first to show that in this way it is possible to make concrete 80-100% stronger, taking into account the corrosive influence of an aggressive environment.
The researchers have addressed challenges in data retention and endurance of these devices by developing a silver-dispersive chalcogenide thin film.
Researchers move a step closer to making conventional optoelectronic devices more lightweight and flexible.
New findings debunk previous wisdom that solid-state qubits need to be super dilute in an ultra-clean material to achieve long lifetimes. Instead, cram lots of rare-earth ions into a crystal and some will form pairs that act as highly coherent qubits, shows paper in Nature Physics.