ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
‘KinderMining’: Tackling big data sets by keeping things…
[caption id="attachment_11856" align="alignnone" width="624"] A research assistant uses a pipette to change media that feed trays of human embryonic stem cell cultures in a UW[/caption] With about 100 lines of code, a Morgridge Institute for…
Gold standards for nanoparticles
Understanding how small organic ions stabilize gold nanoparticles may allow for better control. [caption id="attachment_11853" align="alignright" width="352"] Gold nanoparticles imaged at atomic resolution with an idealized schematic at top left.n Credit : Reproduced with permission…
Faster page loads
System allocates data center bandwidth more fairly, so no part of a webpage lags behind others. [caption id="attachment_11850" align="alignnone" width="639"] At the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science…
Ultrasounds can decrease bone density
Prolonged prenatal ultrasound exposure leads to decreased bone density and strength in young rabbits. [caption id="attachment_11846" align="alignnone" width="622"] Researchers analyzed the effects of ultrasound exposure on baby rabbits and found the rabbits had lower bone…