Using explosive weapons in populated areas in Syria has disproportionately lethal effects on women and…
Month: September 2015
Many nonprofit academic leaders and professors serve on for-profit health-care company boards
Nearly one in 10 US for-profit health care company board positions are held by individuals…
Titan helps unpuzzle decades-old plutonium perplexities
Condensed matter theorists used nearly 10 million Titan core hours to calculate the electronic and…
Disappearing carbon circuits on graphene could have security, biomedical uses
Using carbon atoms deposited on graphene, researchers have demonstrated a technique for creating dynamic patterns…
Scientists to bypass brain damage by re-encoding memories
Researchers are testing a prosthesis that translates short-term memories into longer-term ones, with the potential…
Making batteries with portabella mushrooms
Can portabella mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Researchers think so. They…
Rare early Jurassic corals of North America
Mass extinction events punctuate the evolution of marine environments, and recovery biotas paved the way…
Nanomachines: Pirouetting in the spotlight
Scientists have developed a new class of molecular motors that rotate unidirectionally at speeds of…
Relationship between sympathy, helping others could provide clues to development of altruism
Developmental psychologists long have debated whether individuals volunteer and help others because they are sympathetic…
Large trees — key climate influencers — die first in drought
In forests worldwide, drought consistently has had a more detrimental impact on the growth and…