A new study of air pollutant emissions from northern Front Range oil and gas operations…
Month: September 2016
Cassini begins epic final year at Saturn
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has…
Gene therapy used to treat pulmonary dysfunction in Pompe disease
Researchers have successfully used gene therapy to treat patients with infantile onset Pompe disease, a…
New mosquito-borne disease detected in Haiti
Researchers have identified a patient in Haiti with a serious mosquito-borne illness that has never…
For first time, individual atoms seen keeping away from each other or bunching up as pairs
If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today’s most…
Levitating nanoparticle improves ‘torque sensing’
Researchers have levitated a tiny nanodiamond particle with a laser in a vacuum chamber, using…
Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments
Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but…
2016 ties with 2007 for second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum
The Arctic’s ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016,…
First U.S. marine national monument created in Atlantic
Deep in the oceans exist some of the world’s oldest and most mysterious sea canyons…
A tight squeeze for electrons: Quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’ wires
Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional ‘quantum wires’ and…