Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University.
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A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
The flexible tissue scaffold, shown here emerging from a glass pipette with a tip one millimetre wide, unfolds itself after injection into the body. This could enable surgeons to use minimally invasive techniques, which reduce recovery time, scarring and...
Using fluorescent lights, Kerry Sieh and Charles Rubin of the Earth Observatory of Singapore look for charcoal and shells for radiocarbon dating.
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An international team of scientists digging in a sea cave in Indonesia has discovered...
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime.
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After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually...
Concentrations of repetitive loss properties in Florida are shown in this map. Researchers identified sites where government buyouts and remediation projects can achieve social, environmental, and economic benefits.
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A study of flood damage in Florida...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b).
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Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
MIT scientists have determined the structure of an enzyme that is found in ocean microbes and can produce a precursor to methane.
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Industrial and agricultural activities produce large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global...
The naked HIV capsid, left, would be quickly detected and eliminated from the cell, but a host protein, cyclophilin A, in red in the image on the right, binds to the capsid and enables it to transit through the...
Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to synthesize the superconducting cuprate samples.
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The perfect performance of superconductors could revolutionize everything...
Due to its breadth, the Jena experiment proves for the first time that a loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components and processes in ecosystems.
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How serious is the loss of species globally?...
Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming.
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The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current...
