Transforming Gas into Fuels with Better Alloys
Technological advances in oil and gas well stimulation over the past decade now allow for the production of natural gas from shale gas trapped...
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More Efficient Security for Cloud-Based Machine Learning
A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks, without dramatically slowing their runtimes. This approach holds promise...
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Can Stress Make us Sick?
We know that a lot of stress can impact our thoughts and mood.
But can too much stress actually make us more likely to develop...
New Gene Test Could Improve Treatment of Breast Cancer
A low-cost test to more accurately predict which breast cancers are at higher risk of relapse and thus inform better treatment decisions, is being...
Protecting the Power Grid: Advanced Plasma Switch Can Make the Grid...
Inside your home and office, low-voltage alternating current (AC) powers the lights, computers and electronic devices for everyday use. But when the electricity comes...
Team of Researchers with FEFU Participation Developed Nanofoam for Effective Sound Insulation
A team of researchers from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), research centers of Russia and the Republic of Korea developed sound absorbing nanofoam, which...
Berkeley Engineers Develop Origami Electronics from Cheap, Foldable Paper
Using inexpensive materials, UC Berkeley engineers have fabricated foldable electronic switches and sensors directly onto paper, along with prototype generators, supercapacitors and other electronic...
Sleep Deprivation Boosts Effects of Drugs and Furthers Chemical Dependence
Sleep deprivation has become a worldwide epidemic. Research conducted in the United States shows that the number of adults who slept six hours or less rose...
Foam Could Offer Greener Option for Petroleum Drillers
Now, Princeton researchers led by Howard Stone, the Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have experimentally tested a...
Broccoli, Cabbage and Kale May Protect Against Colon Cancer
The early-stage mouse study, from scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London, is published in the journal Immunity.
This suggests that even without genetic risk factors,...
Nordic Nations, North Americans and Antipodeans Rank Top in Navigation Skills
People in Nordic countries, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have the best spatial navigational abilities, according to a new study led by UCL...
Proof-Of-Concept Technique Makes Nanoparticles Attractive for New Medications
Since the development of insulin to manage diabetes, pharmacists have longed to create an insulin pill. Past attempts have failed, because insulin does not...
Lab ‘Failure’ Leads to Potential Treatment for Obesity
Yale scientists set out to create a morbidly obese mouse. They failed miserably.
What they found was much more interesting.
“We created a mouse that eats...
Scientists Uncover New Details in How Sense of Smell Develops
Dogs, known for their extraordinarily keen senses of smell, can be trained to use their sensitive sniffers to find drugs, bombs, bed bugs, missing...
Scientists Design Material That Can Store Energy like an Eagle’s Grip
These kinds of materials are called auxetics and behave quite differently from regular materials. Instead of bulging out when squeezed, they collapse in all...
New, Greener Prospects for Steel Waste Gases
In the iron and steel industry, gaseous emissions are an unavoidable by-product of steelmaking. About 40 % of the carbon used in steelmaking leaves...
Liquid Battery Could Lead to Flexible Energy Storage
A new type of energy storage system could revolutionise energy storage and drop the charging time of electric cars from hours to seconds.
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