ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab
A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world's largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean from CERN to its new home at the US Department of...
View ArticleONR: Helping to train the future canine force
Canines have proven to be expert bomb detectors for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. But with combat operations winding down, the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) Expeditionary Canine Sciences...
View ArticleLab test commonly used to assess water toxicity
Hyalella azteca are invertebrates that are widely used for sediment and water toxicity studies. Investigators have found that H. azteca collected from sites influenced by agricultural/urban runoff are...
View Article'Cicadas': US military's new swarm of mini-drones
US military scientists have invented a miniature drone that fits in the palm of a hand, ready to be dropped from the sky like a mobile phone with wings.
View ArticleDriest place on Earth hosts life
Researchers have pinpointed the driest location on Earth in the Atacama Desert, a region in Chile already recognised as the most arid in the world. They have also found evidence of life at the site, a...
View ArticlePhysicist's Nobel Prize up for auction; $325,000 minimum bid (Update)
A retired experimental physicist has put up his 1988 Nobel Prize for auction, and the minimum bid is $325,000.
View ArticleCanada to send two astronauts into space by 2024
Canada committed Tuesday to flying two astronauts to space within the next decade as part of its renewed participation with the International Space Station program.
View ArticleElectroporation delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 system improves efficiency and...
Jackson Laboratory researchers have shown that using an electric current to deliver the CRISPR/Cas9 system, in order to engineer genetic changes in laboratory mice, is highly efficient and...
View ArticleA pocket-sized medical lab being tested at the CHUV
The device – a sort of Swiss army knife of medical tests – was created by Qloudlab, a start-up based at EPFL, and is currently undergoing certification at the CHUV hospital. This miniature laboratory...
View ArticleRayleigh scattering reveals light propagation in optical nanfibers
Optical fibers are hair-like threads of glass used to guide light. Fibers of exceptional purity have proved an excellent way of sending information over long distances and are the foundation of modern...
View ArticleMars camera makes 60,000 orbits of Red Planet
Next week, a visual and infrared camera designed at Arizona State University will pass 60,000 orbits of the Red Planet.
View ArticleMariner 4 to Mars, 50 years later
July 14 marks 50 years of visual reconnaissance of the solar system by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), beginning with Mariner 4's flyby of Mars in 1965.
View ArticlePre-college science programs lead to more science majors
High school students who take part in pre-college programs that focus on science are much more likely to pursue higher education and, eventually, careers in science, technology, engineering and...
View ArticleNIST demonstrates quick testing of organic materials with off-the-shelf...
Hunting for the best material from which to build organic solar cells can be like seeking the proverbial haystack needle, but now scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
View ArticleNew insights into biofilm formation could lead to better therapies, but...
July 20, 2015 - Biofilms are tough, opportunistic, highly antibiotic resistant bacterial coatings that form on catheters and on medical devices implanted within the body. University of Maryland...
View ArticleFermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles
Scientists on the NOvA experiment saw their first evidence of oscillating neutrinos, confirming that the extraordinary detector built for the project not only functions as planned but is also making...
View ArticleNational labs put power behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto
After a journey of three billion miles lasting more than nine years, NASA's New Horizons mission finally flew by Pluto and its mysterious moons. The craft is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric...
View ArticleResearchers set new temperature record for a superconductor
(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz has set a new warmth record for a superconductor. In their paper published in the...
View ArticleBetter daily sea ice forecasts for the Arctic following innovation
Ice experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. National Ice Center and other institutions have developed a straightforward new technique for estimating sea ice...
View ArticleEarth observations show how nitrogen may be detected on exoplanets, aiding...
Observations of nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere by a NASA spacecraft 17 million miles away are giving astronomers fresh clues to how that gas might reveal itself on faraway planets, thus aiding in the...
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