The deserts of Utah and Nevada have not always been dry. Now a researcher has…
Month: September 2012
Peering to the edge of a black hole
Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of…
Napiergrass: A potential biofuel crop for the sunny Southeast
A grass fed to cattle throughout much of the tropics may become a biofuel crop…
Dynamics of DNA packaging helps regulate formation of heart
A new regulator for heart formation has been discovered by studying how embryonic stem cells…
NASA rover finds old streambed on Martian surface
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area…
Disappearing act: Biocompatible electronics for health monitoring vanish when no longer needed
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is the first to demonstrate “transient electronics” — electronics that…
Electronics that vanish in the environment or the body
Physicians and environmentalists alike could soon be using a new class of electronic devices: small,…
Uranium-contaminated site yields wealth of information on microbes 10 feet under
At sites contaminated with heavy metals, remediation often involves feeding the naturally occurring bacteria in…
Tiny resorbable semiconductors: Smooth as silk ‘transient electronics’ dissolve in body or environment
Tiny, fully biocompatible electronic devices that are able to dissolve harmlessly into their surroundings after…
It’s not too late for troubled fisheries, experts say
New research confirms suspicions that thousands of “data-poor” fisheries, representing some 80 percent of the…