Vaccines not protecting farmed fish from disease
The vaccines used by commercial fish farmers are not protecting fish from disease, according to a new study.
The study was compiled by researchers at...
New fuel cell technology runs on solid carbon
Advancements in a fuel cell technology powered by solid carbon could make electricity generation from resources such as coal and biomass cleaner and more...
The world’s most powerful acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humans
Acoustic tractor beams use the power of sound to hold particles in mid-air, and unlike magnetic levitation, they can grab most solids or liquids....
‘Programmable droplets’ could enable high-volume biology experiments
MIT researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them in ways...
The Pentagon built with mineralized microbes predating dinosaurs
A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found that some of the building blocks of the Pentagon and Empire State...
Women run faster after taking newly developed supplement
A new study found that women who took a specially prepared blend of minerals and nutrients for a month saw their 3-mile run times...
Packing a genome, step-by-step
Genome folding now has a playbook.
A new step-by-step account spells out in minute-time resolution how cells rapidly pack long tangles of chromosomes into the...
NASA team studies middle-aged sun by tracking motion of Mercury
Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding. It happens because the Sun's...
Temporary ‘bathtub drains’ in the ocean concentrate flotsam
An experiment featuring the largest flotilla of sensors ever deployed in a single area provides new insights into how marine debris, or flotsam, moves...
Breakthrough study shows how plants sense the world
Plants lack eyes and ears, but they can still see, hear, smell and respond to environmental cues and dangers -- especially to virulent pathogens....
Artificial agent designs quantum experiments
We carry smartphones in our pockets, the streets are dotted with semi-autonomous cars, but in the research laboratory experiments are still being designed by...
