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…
Global agreements
In new book, MIT linguist expands the horizons of language analysis [caption id="attachment_11729" align="alignright" width="300"] MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa’s new book — “Agreement Beyond Phi,” out today from the MIT Press — explores the unexpected…
Rice lab expands palette for color-changing glass
Nanophotonics team creates low-voltage, multicolor, electrochromic glass [caption id="attachment_11724" align="alignnone" width="1340"] Adding and removing an electron from neutral perylene (center column) produces an anion (left) and cation (right), respectively, with different electronic structures (middle row).…
Urine-based Biomarkers for Early Cancer Screening Test
A new study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, has introduced a new technique that validates urine-based biomarkers for early detection of cancer. [caption id="attachment_11720" align="alignnone" width="800"] Professor Yoonkyoung Cho’s…
Coffee-ring effect leads to crystallization control in semiconductors
KAUST researchers develop a method to control the orientation and properties of crystal regions within polycrystalline semiconductors [caption id="attachment_11714" align="alignnone" width="632"] Crystallization behavior can be controlled locally, creating regions with different crystal patterns. © 2017…