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Western Dakota Tech earns first place in 4th annual Community College Innovation Challenge
(National Science Foundation) The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) awarded Western Dakota Tech from Rapid City, South Dakota first place in the 2018 fourth annual Community College Innovation...
To make plastic, just add blood
To make plastic, just add bloodTo make plastic, just add blood, Published online: 22 June 2018; Red blood cells harbour key ingredients for polymerization.
Men tolerate stress incontinence years before seeking help
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Men often tolerate stress urinary incontinence for more than two years before seeking medical help -- and one-third put up with it for more than five years, making it important for doctors to check for this problem, a...
Oil and Gas Facilities Leak More Methane than Previously Thought
Plugging those leaks would be a cost-effective way to slow the rate of warming, experts say-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Using tree-fall patterns to calculate tornado wind speed
(Ecological Society of America) Daniel M. Rhee, a PhD student at University of Illinois specializing in Structures in Civil Engineering, focuses his research on modeling tornadoes and near-surface wind speeds using tree-fall and damage patterns. With...
Should Law Enforcement Need a Warrant to Track Your Cell Phone?
In Carpenter v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court is about to tackle its biggest case related to the Fourth Amendment and privacy of data generated by cell phones-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Dynamic modeling helps predict the behaviors of gut microbes
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) A new study provides a platform for predicting how microbial gut communities work and represents a first step toward understanding how to manipulate the properties of the gut ecosystem. This could allow scientists to...
Parents need to check their own screen time habits
Worrying about how many hours kids spend in front of screens is one thing, but what about the effects of parents' noses being buried in their phones?
Blood test predicts spastic cerebral palsy
(Nemours) Researchers at Nemours and the University of Delaware have developed a blood test predictive of spastic cerebral palsy. Their study, published in BMC Bioinformatics, showed that DNA patterns in circulating blood cells can be used to help id...
Rapid and efficient oil-water separation achieved by newly-developed particles
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) Recently, researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry have developed an emulsion interfacial polymerization approach to synthesize anisotropic Janus particles with controllable topologi...