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NASA on the hunt for space poop geniuses
1 hour ago
When you've got to go, but you're out there in space, zipped up in a spacesuit, with no toilet in sight and a crew of other astronauts around, what do you do?
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Just add water: New discovery in plant-disease mechanism
2 hours ago
We all know that when it rains, plants grow. When it doesn't, they don't.
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For wearable electronic devices, NIST shows plastic holes are golden
2 hours ago
In science, sometimes the best discoveries come when you're exploring something else entirely. That's the case with recent findings from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where a research team has ...
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Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago
4 hours ago
Every year, trade winds over the Sahara Desert sweep up huge plumes of mineral dust, transporting hundreds of teragrams—enough to fill 10 million dump trucks—across North Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean. This dust ...
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Coconut crab claws pinch with the strongest force of any crustacean
4 hours ago
The claws of coconut crabs have the strongest pinching force of any crustacean, according to a study published November 23, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Shin-ichiro Oka from Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Japan, ...
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Mood ring materials—a new way to detect damage in failing infrastructure
5 hours ago
"Mood ring materials" could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation's failing infrastructure.
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Pioneering study of invertebrates discovers 1,445 viruses including several new families
5 hours ago
A groundbreaking study of the virosphere of the most populous animals - those without backbones such as insects, spiders and worms and that live around our houses - has uncovered 1445 viruses, revealing people have only scratched ...
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Sliding on flexible graphene surfaces has been uncharted territory until now
5 hours ago
Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large part because of its unique combination of strength, electrical conductivity, and chemical ...
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New study reveals when West Antarctica's largest glacier started retreating
5 hours ago
Reporting this week (Wednesday Nov. 23) in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that present-day thinning and retreat of Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest ...
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Harnessing the power of predatory bacteria as a 'living antibiotic'
5 hours ago
A naturally occurring predatory bacterium is able to work with the immune system to clear multi-drug resistant Shigella infections in zebrafish, according to a study published today in Current Biology.
