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Engineers develop inexpensive, smart stop sign to improve driver safety
(University of Texas at San Antonio) According to the US Department of Transportation, more than half of all roadway fatalities occur on rural roads. Now engineers at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are building and testing a low-cost,...
Diabetes' sworn enemy could ultimately be a valuable ally
(University of Montreal) Montreal research team unravels an adaptive mechanism involved in controlling insulin action, showing that glucagon plays a crucial part in it and can thus be a protective asset.
Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid
If there was ever any doubt that Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to , a should put those doubts to rest.
The black-and-white video clip, shot by the probe’s CAM-H monitoring camera, shows the sampling horn being lowered to the sunlit surface....
Grant expected to push sepsis research forward
(Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso) The 2019 Society of Critical Care Medicine Weil Research Grant will allow a TTUHSC El Paso professor to continue research that focuses on how different immune cells contribute to the body's...
Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth
An image captured by the Beresheet lunar lander shows a plaque with the Israeli flag in the foreground, and Earth in the background. (Beresheet / SpaceIL Photo)
An Israeli lunar lander gets photobombed by Earth in a selfie released today by SpaceIL’s...
One device, many frequencies: Argonne researchers create a unique, tiny resonator
(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) A finding from a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory could ultimately help improve the army of tiny, vibrating components found in a range of electronics a...
Location and competition
(University of California - Santa Barbara) Those of us who drive regularly are keenly aware of gas prices and their daily fluctuations. Many of the factors that influence the price per gallon -- the cost of crude oil, regional taxes and processing an...
Genetic 'usual suspects' identified in researchers' new list
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) After analyzing tens of thousands of data samples, researchers have created a list of genes that ranks them based on how frequently they are implicated in specific diseases. The list may prove invaluable for future res...
SwRI-developed satellites enter second phase of operations
(Southwest Research Institute) NASA has extended the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission for an additional year and a half. The constellation of microsatellites designed and built at Southwest Research Institute has made histo...
Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster together
(University of Chicago) Scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Bath used sound waves to levitate particles, revealing new insights about how materials cluster together in the absence of gravity -- principles which underlie ev...