Discovery could lead to new way of cleaning up oil spills
(Phys.org) —University of Alberta mechanical engineering researchers have shown that a simple glass surface can be made to repel oil underwater. This has huge implications for development of a chemical...
View ArticleBlockade in cellular waste disposal: Scientists show how protein aggregates...
Proteins can only perform their complex functions in the cell when they assume a specific three-dimensional structure for each respective task. Because misfolded proteins are often toxic, they are...
View ArticleROSPHERE: A spherical robot for exploration missions
Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, have developed a robot prototype by using an unconventional motion mode to conduct missions on wild environments.
View ArticleSetting the stage for passing on epigenetic information to the next generation
(Phys.org) —In a comprehensive study, scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research identified the molecular logic underlying the retention of histones and their marks during...
View ArticleNew solar car from U-Michigan has sleek, asymmetrical design (w/ Video)
The lopsided solar car named Generation, unveiled today, might be the oddest-looking vehicle the top-ranked University of Michigan team has ever built. But the bold shape is a calculated effort to...
View ArticleA designer enzyme for alternative energy
(Phys.org) —Imagine pulling energy out of thin air. Yi Lu and his colleagues are on that path, in a quest to find alternatives to fossil fuels. The team has designed an enzyme that can harvest the...
View ArticleTwo-dimensional atomically-flat transistors show promise for next generation...
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with University of Notre Dame, have recently demonstrated the highest reported drive current on a transistor made of a monolayer of tungsten diselenide...
View ArticleMuscles act as metamaterials due to collective behavior, physicists show
(Phys.org) —Metamaterials are defined as artificial materials that have been engineered to have unusual properties that are not found in nature. For instance, ordinary materials (say, a rubber band)...
View ArticleResearchers discover way to allow 80 percent of sound to pass through walls
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Korea has discovered a way to allow sound to pass through walls almost as if they were not there at all. As the group describes in their paper published in the...
View ArticleRobots learn how to arrange objects by 'hallucinating' humans into their...
(Phys.org) —A team of robotics engineers working in the Personal Robotics Lab at Cornell University (led by Ashutosh Saxena) has developed a new way to give robots a context-sensitive way to organize a...
View ArticleA cheaper drive to 'cool' fuels: Scientists pioneer inexpensive catalyst to...
(Phys.org) —University of Delaware chemist Joel Rosenthal is driven to succeed in the renewable energy arena.
View ArticleTeam creates techniques for high quality, high resolution stereo panoramas
Stereoscopic panoramas promise an inviting, immersive experience for viewers but, at high resolutions, distortions can develop that make viewing unpleasant or even intolerable. A team at Disney...
View ArticleHarnessing the potential of quantum tunneling: Transistors without...
(Phys.org) —For decades, electronic devices have been getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller. It's now possible—even routine—to place millions of transistors on a single silicon chip.
View ArticleUK regulator orders Google to delete private data
Britain's data regulator Friday ordered Internet giant Google to delete personal data scooped up in its Street View project—or face a contempt of court action.
View ArticleScientists solve riddle of strangely behaving magnetic material
(Phys.org) —Materials scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have found an accurate way to explain the magnetic properties of a compound that has mystified the scientific...
View ArticleSuper full moon shines brightly this weekend (Update)
A "supermoon" rises this weekend.
View ArticleFAA moving toward easing electronic device use
The U.S. government is moving toward easing restrictions on airline passengers using electronic devices to listen to music, play games, read books, watch movies and work during taxiing, takeoffs and...
View ArticleOddest couple ever found: Amphibian and mammal forerunner share 250 million...
250 million years ago, a mammal forerunner and an amphibian shared a burrow. Scientists from South Africa, Australia and France have discovered a world first association while scanning a 250 million...
View ArticleMessier 61 looks straight into Hubble's camera
(Phys.org) —The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is...
View ArticleFive years of stereo imaging for NASA's TWINS
(Phys.org) —Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves...
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