By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope, researchers at Cornell University have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes, and have learned how to feel the force of a single electron as it hops on and off the tube, they reported at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Severe, long-term complications of diabetes, a growing health problem that affects an estimated 16 million Americans, may be reduced with new treatments based on an 'enzyme mimetic' that has been shown to significantly improve the functioning of blood vessels and nerves in diabetic animal studies, as reported in the September issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology.
Using such novel tools as a small catamaran and a fish finder that can show what orca whales are feeding on up to a quarter of a mile beneath the ocean surface, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals' plummeting population.
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has signed a new industrial partner: SGI Inc. (NYSE:SGI), formerly known as Silicon Graphics
Researchers sorting through large numbers of chemical compounds to identify new drug candidates may soon be heading for the express check-out lane.
Scientists at Purdue University are creating a biological sensor for glucose in research that ultimately may help to design "intelligent drug delivery" devices that could be implanted in the body to administer medications such as insulin.
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered a unique gene modification in adult human cancer cells that could provide insight into the cause of certain types of lymphoma and possibly other cancers.
Photovoltaics-the high-tech approach to converting sunlight directly into electricity-could be low cost and widely practical if based on organic "self-asssembling" thin film technologies, say scientists at the University of Arizona.
Walter Munk, considered by many to be one of the world's greatest living oceanographers, will be awarded the inaugural Prince Albert I Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
System-on-a-chip (SOC) is the hottest new approach to making electronics smaller, faster and cheaper and University of Arkansas researcher Alan Mantooth is working on a computer model that will make producing SOCs feasible for consumer products.
A team that includes University of Michigan School of Information researchers will receive $10 million from the National Science Foundation to build a virtual laboratory, or "collaboratory," through which engineers can design and test earthquake-safe structures.
Development of a national cyber-network for earthquake engineering research will begin in earnest with a $10 million award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Along with Stanford University, FSU was elected to the now 16-member Joint Oceanographic Institutions. As a member, FSU joins such prestigious organizations as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California-San Diego and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.Â
Dr. William S. Hancock has been named editor of Journal of Proteome Research, a new scientific publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
IEEE Spectrum visits one of China's largest dams.
Grown-ups are gleefully turning smart Lego bricks into autonomous gadgets.
Smart autos and advanced algorithms will help keep cars from crashing into each other.
Chemical engineers are getting closer to developing a method for taking insulin and other medications orally instead of by injection and will discuss new findings during an American Chemical Society meeting Aug. 26.
As thousands of acres burn across the western United States, scientists are flying over wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, measuring mercury emissions in their smoke. A team from the National Center for Atmospheric Research is conducting experiments to create a better picture of the global sources of atmospheric mercury.
Last weekend an amateur astronomer found a new comet the old-fashioned way.
A University of Arkansas team will work in zero gravity to test a sample collector for a proposed NASA mission that one day may bring asteroids to Earth from space.
Two scientists will get married on stage at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. Lisa Danielson and Will Stefanov are geologists. The public is invited to donate old bridesmaid's dresses.
A University of Arkansas researcher has compared the family trees of fruit flies and their host cacti and found that evolutionary "jumps" to different types of plant hosts have occurred throughout time, suggesting that ecological specialization can occur repeatedly from the same species pool.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft has spotted curious icy spires jutting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Callisto.
Scientists from the University of North Carolina schools of medicine and pharmacy have teamed up to develop a new way to calculate the stability of cellular proteins. The research could eventually have an impact on the way proteins for new drug development are designed and engineered.
BD Biosciences and Thermo Finnigan, a Thermo Electron business (NYSE:TMO), have developed an innovative technique for isolating specific cell types in complex biological samples and then identifying low-abundance proteins from those cells.
Working with large-scale computer simulations, a team of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln modeled four new kinds of crystalline ice, all by adjusting the diameter of a carbon nanotube by less than one-quarter of a nanometer.
A team of UCSD scientists have discovered a new immunological pathway that opens a new avenue of research, with the potential for preventing autoimmune diseases and some lymphomas, without compromising the body's immune defenses.
An analysis of the recently discovered Tagish Lake Meteorite notes that it appears to preserve organics that accumulated or developed in the early history of the Solar System and thus gives a historical record of an early stage in a process of evolution of complex carbon compounds in space.
A unique array of listening devices deployed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is one of the first stations in an important new global network that will detect signals from events as diverse as secret nuclear weapons tests, volcanic eruptions, and hurricanes in early formation.
The future of science, new discoveries in genetics, cell biology, and chemistry, as well as the societal and ethical implications of these discoveries are the focus of a public conference Oct. 2-3 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.
Two groups of Cornell University researchers have been awarded U.S. defense agency contracts to develop molecular switches and explore the spin properties of electrons, aiming at a new generation of miniaturized electronic devices.
In the past firefighters wished for rain or perhaps a cool breeze. Now there's a different kind of aid from the heavens -- rapid-response fire maps.
The Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation recently awarded Boston University's astronomy department a $500,000 grant to develop Mimir, a powerful, state-of-the-art, wide-field imaging spectrometer and polarimeter.
Fueled by a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working to develop a cheaper and more efficient fuel cell -- a technology that holds promise as a clean, alternative energy source.
Massive computing power and biology are coming together in a big way through a cooperative research and development agreement announced today by IBM and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Researchers have sequenced the genome of Agrobacterium and made it freely available on the Internet. Agrobacterium has the unique property of inserting small pieces of genetic material into a plant, animal or fungal cell, and is a basic tool for genetic engineering.
Iowa State University's Seed Science Center will administer a new system that should make it easier for American seed companies to export more than a billion dollars worth of products. The National Seed Health System will standardize seed health testing and field inspections nationwide and expand testing responsibilities to commercial labs.
A Penn State expert on probabilistic simulation thinks that the large number of shark attacks that recently took place in Florida might be explained through probability theory.
For years, farmers and agribusinesses have talked about being on the "pesticide treadmill": A few years after a pesticide is introduced, insects develop resistance to it. But Barry Pittendrigh, assistant professor of entomology at Purdue University, says it's possible to stop the treadmill, or at least slow it to a crawl.
Land-grant universities must join forces with the federal government and private industry to more actively battle eco-terrorism attacks against university researchers, according to Bob Hoover, president of the University of Idaho and a member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Board of Directors.
Silicon microteeth that open and close like jaws have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The microjaws fit in a microchannel about one-third the width of a human hair (about 20 microns wide). When the jaws close, they trap a red blood cell -- one of many being pumped through the microchannel like tomatoes spilled from a basket.
After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight, a University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football: why a forward pass curves slightly to the left or right, based on the handedness of the passer.
Palomar Observatory receives high-speed network connectivity via HPWREN: near-earth asteroid and supernova researchers reap benefits.
University of Illinois at Chicago chemists use fluorous chemistry to modify Swern reaction for odorless conversion of alcohols into aldehydes and ketones.
The Center for Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded $1.5 million in matching funds from the State of California.
A textile scientist at North Carolina State University is developing a more efficient method of dyeing cotton that is not only less harmful to the environment, but also uses significantly smaller amounts of energy, water and salt in the dyeing process.
An amusing accident in the Mojave desert has inspired a new kind of Mars rover -- a two-story high beach ball that can descend to the Martian surface, land safely, and explore vast expanses of the Red Planet.
While most people are trying to avoid the perils of this year's hurricanes, scientists will soon be flying right into them.
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