Day December 18, 2018

IMAGE: On Dec. 18 the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Kenanga moving through the Southern Indian Ocean. view more  Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical…

IMAGE: Soumya Chatterjee, M.D., assistant professor of infectious diseases, allergy and immunology at Saint Louis University. view more  Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti ST. LOUIS — In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Soumya Chatterjee, M.D., assistant professor…

IMAGE: A Texas AM Engineering research team harnesses the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to create an open source software package that autonomously discovers new materials. view more  Credit: Texas AM University/Dharmesh Patel A Texas AM engineering research team…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (December 17, 2018) – Children born in the most recent century have bones that reach full maturity earlier – by nearly 10 months in girls and nearly seven months in boys – according to a new study from…

BROOKLYN, New York, Thursday, December 13, 2018 – A team of researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Center for Neural Science has solved a longstanding puzzle of how to build ultra-sensitive, ultra-small electrochemical sensors…

IMAGE: Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have demonstrated that recycling carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals such as ethylene and propanol, and fuels such as ethanol,… view more  Credit: Joel Ager and Yanwei Lum/Berkeley Lab For…

IMAGE: These are spatial configurations and outcomes for climate change mitigation, avoided extinctions and total costs of selected scenarios. view more  Credit: Strassburg et al 2018 A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution presents a novel approach to identify…

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Nanosized cages may play a big role in reducing energy consumption in science and industry, and machine-learning research at Oregon State University aims to accelerate the deployment of these remarkable molecules. The porous organic cage molecules being…

IMAGE: Wildlife biologist Ron Wooten spotted this pack of canines on Galveston Island, Texas, in a region where red wolves were declared regionally extinct more than 35 years ago. Princeton biologists… view more  Credit: Courtesy of Ron Wooten Though red wolves…

IMAGE: A treasure trove of data about tree growth in the US West was found in these boxes, each of which contained 500 to 800 cores from individual forest trees. The… view more  Credit: John D. Shaw, US Forest Service Southwest…