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Zika virus can live for hours on hard, non-porous surfaces
The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human...
Efficient approach for tracking physical activity with wearable health devices
Motion capture technology helped researchers at NC State University develop an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user's physical activity based on data from...
Making spintronic neurons sing in unison
Johan Åkerman. Credit: Johan Wingborg
What do fire flies, Huygens's wall clocks, and even the heart of choir singers, have in common? They can all...
Study finds evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil in land-based birds
A seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the salt marshes. Credit: Andrea Bonisoli Alquati
The ecological consequences of an environmental disaster can extend further than one...
Researchers send messages using household chemicals
Stanford researchers led by postdoc Nariman Farsad have built a machine that sends text messages using common chemicals.Image: Standford University
Researchers have built a machine...
World’s fastest quantum simulator operating at the atomic level
Schematic explanation of the world's fastest quantum simulator. Credit: NINS/IMS
Kenji Ohmori (Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan) and a group...
Do extremely reddened quasars extinguish star formation?
An artist's impression shows a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. Credit:...
Cosmic ‘barcode’ from distant galaxy confirms Nature’s constancy
Astronomers observed light from a quasar 8.5 billion years after it passed through distant galaxies.Credit: James Josephides and Professor Michael MurphyClose
Astronomers have precisely measured...
The aging brain benefits from distraction
This figure shows the relationship between task performance and level of cognitive control.Credit: Amer, Campbell, Hasher/Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2016
As you age, you may...
Smoke + Hot Temperatures = Increased SIDS Risk
Researchers are a step closer to understanding why cigarette smoke exposure during pregnancy may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). SIDS...
Exploring gigantic volcanic eruptions that caused worldwide mass extinctions
This diagram shows the Pacific large igneous provinces included in a study by Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences researchers. Sections colored in red were...
