USB stick that tests for HIV. Credit: Imperial College London / DNA Electronics Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick. The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and DNA Electronics, uses a drop of...
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 been the setting of many milestones in the development of an innovative cooling technology that...
The coordinated cyber attack that crippled parts of the internet on Friday highlighted key policy problems, a Stanford cybersecurity scholar said. And while the problems were clear, there are no easy solutions, said Herbert Lin, a senior research scholar for...
Predicted structure of the group 1 allergen protein from an American house dust mite. Arrow points to the location of a novel mutation discovered by the University of Michigan-led team. Credit: Rubaba Hamid As if holiday travel isn't stressful enough. Now...
"It's very inspiring to see how these structures occur in nature and how they can achieve different functions," says Jifei Ou, a graduate student in media arts and sciences at MIT. "We're just trying to think how can...
Scientists from MIPT's Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases together with Inria research center, Grenoble, France have developed a software package called Knodle to determine an atom's hybridization, bond orders and functional groups' annotation in...
This is an aerial view of the Virgo site showing the Mode-Cleaner building, the Central building, the three kilometer-long west arm and the beginning of the north arm. The other buildings include offices, workshops, computer rooms and the control...
Schematic of a bio-bot: Engineered skeletal muscle tissue is coupled to a 3-D printed flexible skeleton. Optical stimulation of the muscle tissue, which is genetically engineered to contract in response to blue light, makes the bio-bot walk across a...
New research from Olin Business School examines data from the 2007-09 financial crisis to show how the US Federal Reserve can effectively assist banks in times of financial uncertainty. Credit: Washington University in St. Louis This week, the Federal Reserve hiked...
Upping the ante on artificial intelligence: Michael Bowling (center) flanked by the co-authors of DeepStack.Credit: John Ulan A team of computing scientists from the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group is once again capturing the world's collective fascination with...
Researchers have made the first important step toward integrating atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (APGNRs) onto nonmetallic substrates. Credit: Adrian Radocea, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers have demonstrated the first important step toward integrating atomically precise graphene nanoribbons...