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3D star formations created by NASA supercomputer

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

To create unique star-formation simulations scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are using NASA's most powerful supercomputer, Pleiades. Like something from a video game, the…

Robots

Bio-bots mimic stingray and follow light

Editorial Team Jul 11, 2016

A robotic mimic of a stingray that's powered and guided by light-sensitive rat heart cells has been created by researchers. The work exhibits a new method for building bio-inspired robots by means of tissue engineering. Batoid fish, which…

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Vaccines on ice: Solution for developing countries

Editorial Team Jul 8, 2016

From polio to hepatitis, vaccines against killer diseases are fragile and can easily be made useless if they get too hot or too cold. The problem is particularly acute in the developing countries where nearly one in five of the world's…

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BRIM technique identifies aggressive breast cancer cells

Editorial Team Jul 8, 2016

A technology that can identify aggressive forms of ductal carcinoma in situ, or stage 0 breast cancer, from non-aggressive varieties has been developed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The technique combines imaging and…

Energy

Crystal orientation a breakthrough for solar tech

Editorial Team Jul 8, 2016

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Rice University have tweaked their crystal production method and developed a type of two-dimensional layered perovskite with outstanding stability and more than…

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Nanomachine diagnostics at genetic level

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

Along with former graduate student Divita Mathur, Professor Eric Henderson, studies how to build nanomachines that may have real-world medical applications someday soon. He and Mathur recently published an article in the peer-reviewed…

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Next-gen vaccines succeed in fighting disease

Editorial Team Jul 5, 2016

Working toward developing an E. coli-based transport capsule designed to help next-gen vaccines do a more efficient and effective job than today's immunizations, researchers experimenting with harmless strains of E. coli. The research,…

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Flight duration record set by NASA’s Balloon Program

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

A new flight duration record for a mid-latitude flight of a large scientific research balloon was set at 3:54 p.m. EDT, 2nd July, when NASA's Balloon Program Office successfully completed the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon…

A&D

Telescope to be launched to observe Crab Nebula

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

Soon, a telescope designed and built at KTH will be launched into the stratosphere, carried aloft by a 150-diameter helium balloon about 40km above Earth. This is an effort to observe the small pulsar at the center of the spectacular Crab…

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