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Engineer creates new design for ultra-thin capacitive sensors
(Binghamton University) As part of ongoing acoustic research at Binghamton University, State University at New York Distinguished Professor Ron Miles has created a workable sensor with the least possible resistance to motion.
Cardinal Rule: Female Birds Sing Too
Many people assume only male birds do the singing. But females also sing in at least 660 species and perhaps many more. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Amid departures, Planetary Resources is holding out hope for an asteroid mining comeback
An artist’s conception shows the Arkyd-301 spacecraft, which was destined to start blazing a trail for asteroid prospecting in 2020. (Planetary Resources Illustration)
It’s been months since had to scale back its asteroid aspirations because — and th...
UCR team among scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond earth
(University of California - Riverside) Some of the leading experts in the field, including a UC Riverside team of researchers, have written a major series of review papers on the past, present, and future of the search for life on other planets.
Building a better microscope
(Washington University in St. Louis) Microscopes are limited in what they can see because of their resolution, or their ability to see detail. The detail, or information, from the object is there, but some of it gets lost as the light reflecting off...
True nature of cells blamed in Alzheimer's revealed
(University of Virginia Health System) Immune cells commonly blamed in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases are actually precision cleaning machines protecting the central nervous system, new research from the University of Virginia...
Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record
(Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)) In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator record for the fusion product. Moreover, first confirmation for...
NASA looks at Daniel's concentrated center
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The fourth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific season formed on Saturday, June 23. It strengthened into a tropical storm, and on June 25, 2018, NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyze the storm in...
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These are the three things we have to do to to decarbonize.
FDA Approves Country's First Marijuana-Based Medicine
The drug will treat two rare forms of epilepsy-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com