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New, highly stable catalyst may help turn water into fuel
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Breaking the bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water could be a key to the creation of hydrogen in a sustainable manner, but finding an economically viable technique for this has proved difficult. Resea...
How some algae may survive climate change
(Rutgers University) Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria, according to a Rutgers-led stud...
Pitt bioengineering grad student makes waves in MR research with a 3D printed phantom head
(University of Pittsburgh) Phantoms are not just ghostly figures of our imagination, they are also numerical or physical models that represent human characteristics and provide an inexpensive way to test electromagnetic applications. Sossena Wood, a...
Check out close-up views of asteroid (plus a movie) from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission
This image of the asteroid Ryugo was captured by the Hayabusa 2 probe’s ONC-T camera at an altitude of about 64 meters (210 feet). Image was taken on Sept. 21. A large boulder is at bottom left, along with a scale bar indicating the length of 1 meter...
Paul G. Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture is lifting the veil on its PGA rocket engine
An artist’s conception shows Stratolaunch’s PGA rocket engine. (Stratolaunch Illustration)
The name of Stratolaunch Systems’ home-grown rocket engine leaves no doubt about who’s footing the bill: It’s called the PGA, as in Microsoft co-founder Paul G...
Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation donation unites funders for £1.35 million program
(Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)) The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to announce a pledge of £600,000 from the Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation towards a pilot program to develop two cohorts of innovative new leaders in medical scie...
Iridium plans to launch CloudConnect satellite IoT system in partnership with Amazon Web Services
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is ready to launch 10 Iridium Next satellites into orbit. (Iridium Photo)
Iridium, the satellite communications network, announced Thursday that it intends to work with Amazon Web Services to connect the leading cloud-provide...
Hawai'i land impacted by sea level rise may be double previous estimates
(University of Hawaii at Manoa) By including models of dynamical physical processes such as erosion and wave run-up, a team of researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Res...
Arch Mission partners with Microsoft, University of Washington and Twist to send DNA library to moon
An artist’s conception shows Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander on the lunar surface. (Astrobotic Illustration)
DNA-based data storage systems have been proposed as a theoretical way to preserve information for millennia on the moon, but the idea isn’t so...
Viruses on a Plane: What Emirates Flight EK203 Teaches Us
We're good at responding to suspected disease outbreaks, but we’re in danger of letting down our guard-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com