A thin ribbon of flexible electronics can monitor health, infrastructure
Stretchy, bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients' health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
Credit: Benjamin Leever, Ph.D.
A new world of flexible,...
Business cycle drives the spread of viral diseases
Next time a flu epidemic hits your area, putting everyone in bed, rejoice: it may mean that the recession is over.
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Babies can learn that hard work pays off
Babies can learn to try hard after observing adults trying hard to reach their goals.
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If at first you don't succeed,...
Emerging disease further jeopardizes North American frogs
This tadpole shows signs of a severe Perkinsea infection.
Credit: William Barichivich, USGS
A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause...
Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog
The Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica), newly recognized as a separate species, occurs in England, France, the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Italy and Western Germany.
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Changing of the guard: Research sheds light on how plants breathe
UC Santa Cruz researchers worked with Structured Materials Industries to design and build an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system large enough to accommodate telescope...
New mirror-coating technology promises dramatic improvements in telescopes
UC Santa Cruz researchers worked with Structured Materials Industries to design and build an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system large enough to accommodate telescope...
Brain cancer growth halted by absence of protein
Experiments by a team of NIH-funded scientists suggests a potential method for halting the expansion of certain brain tumors.
Credit: Image courtesy of Michelle Monje,...
Scientists sequence asexual tiny worm whose lineage stretches back 18 million years
Pictured is Diploscapter pachys (D. pachys), a newly sequenced roundworm that is approximately one-third of a millimeter long and one of a very few...
NASA satellites see Sandy expand as storm intensifies
NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of the massive Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 28 at 1302 UTC (9:02 a.m. EDT). The line of...
Geological game changer: When continents connected
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date...
