A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of...
Using recent advances in machine learning, a Dartmouth research team has developed a deep neural network to classify different types of a common form of lung cancer on histopathology slides at an accuracy level shown to be on par with pathologists
Researchers at Yale University gain insights into the mechanics of touch by studying the sensitive skin on ducks' bills, which they found is similar in some ways to the skin on human palms
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a world-leading electron mobility performance of up to 7.16 cm2 V-1 s-1. This achievement heralds an exciting future for organic electronics, including the development of innovative flexible displays a...
Indiana University researchers have invented technology to watch bacteria build cell walls in real time
The discovery could lead to novel, more specific, and more effective MS therapies and a better understanding of how the disease develops
Temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as in the rest of the world, causing permafrost soils to thaw. Permafrost peatlands are biogeochemical hot spots in the Arctic as they store vast amounts of carbon.
Washington State University archaeologists have discovered the oldest tattooing artifact in western North America.
Improved access for historically marginalized castes and tribes, but low-educated women and the poorest groups left behind
A trial NASA rover mission in the Mars-like Atacama desert has successfully recovered subterranean organisms -- strange, scattered, salt-resistant bacteria that could lead the search for Martian life deeper underground
A team of biologists has uncovered a mechanism that determines the faithful inheritance of short chromosomes during the reproductive process.
A new way to create proteins that can sneak through HIV's protective coating may be a step toward understanding the key components needed for developing a vaccine for the virus, according to researchers.
