The solution to global warming, Olaf Schuiling says, lies beneath our feet. For Dr. Schuiling, a retired geochemist, climate salvation would come in the form of olivine, a green-tinted miner... Read more
A new analytic framework enables analysis of GPS data on 150 million cab rides in New York City. Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity: The car-se... Read more
Columbia Business School experiments show that hiring managers chose men twice as often for careers in science, technology, engineering and math With everyone from the federal government to ... Read more
“Biology has an incredible diversity of species, which can provide us new design cues and synthetic routes to the next generation of advanced materials for light-weight automobiles, aircraft... Read more
First of its kind, brain-inspired device looks toward highly efficient and fast parallel computing. It doesn’t take a Watson to realize that even the world’s best supercomputers... Read more
Opens the door to the development of a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and a vaccine to prevent the illness A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceut... Read more
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices. Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows tha... Read more
“This is also exciting because we think it’s a therapeutic approach that could apply to other muscle-wasting diseases” Scientists have discovered that injecting a novel hum... Read more
These tiny mirror-like devices dissolve harmlessly at predetermined rates and require no surgery to remove them Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have demonstrated silk-base... Read more
New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of seasonal in... Read more
Discovery Could Lead to Billions of Dollars in Energy Savings Vision researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have made a groundbreaking discovery into the optimization of light sources... Read more
A way to take adult stem cells and convert them so they have the properties of embryonic stem cells A team of Duke Medicine researchers has engineered cartilage from induced pluripotent stem... Read more
A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibo... Read more
Early signs of lung cancer could be diagnosed using a simple blood test following a new discovery by scientists at the University of York. Early detection of lung cancer has been shown to sa... Read more
Imagine a computer chip that can assemble itself. According to Eric M. Furst, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, engineers and scientists are c... Read more
