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Researchers report new way to make dissolving electronics
Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, center, and co-first authors Xu Wang, left, and Kyoseung...
CRISPR technology used to change flower color
Morning glory flowers. (stock image)
Credit: © tamayura39 / Fotolia
In a world-first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR/Cas9, genome- editing tool to...
Ship exhaust makes oceanic thunderstorms more intense
The top map shows annual average lightning density at a resolution of about 10 kilometers (6 miles), as recorded by the WWLLN, from 2005...
Explosive birth of stars swells galactic cores
Submillimeter waves detected with ALMA are shown in the left, indicating the location of dense dust and gas where stars are being formed. Optical...
Pluto features given first official names
Pluto's first official surface-feature names are marked on this map, compiled from images and data gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flight...
Direct evidence of sea level ‘fingerprints’ discovered
"Scientists have a solid understanding of the physics of sea level fingerprints, but we've never had a direct detection of the phenomenon until now,"...
Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons
Scientists have discovered a new way to convert human skin cells directly into motor neurons (above). The technique, developed at Washington University School of...
Monkey sees … monkey knows?
University of Rochester researchers Jessica Cantlon and Stephen Ferrigno determined that non-human primates exhibited metacognitive illusions after they observed primates completing these series of...
Cooling system works without electricity
Panel used in study.
Credit: Aaswath Raman
It looks like a regular roof, but the top of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building at Stanford University has...
How monkey fights grow
How does conflict spread? (stock image)
Credit: © Alexey Astakhov / Fotolia
How does conflict spread through a society? One way to think of conflict spreading...
3-D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand
Brown researchers have found a way to 3-D print intricate temporary microstructures that can be degraded on demand using a biocompatible chemical trigger. The...
