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…
Cell-tracking agents get a boost
[caption id="attachment_11482" align="alignnone" width="638"] An improved compound of bismuth and carbon nanotubes called Bi4C@US-tubes, developed at Rice University, CHI St. Luke's Health-Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, could enhance the ability…
IOLIOMICS – A research discipline of the future
IOLIOMICS is defined as a rapidly emerging research discipline dealing with the studies of ions in liquid phases and revealing fundamental properties of ionic interactions in biological and chemical systems. [caption id="attachment_11478" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Figure:…
A fair price to pay?
Study shows online retail prices often match store prices — and suggests why they sometimes do not. [caption id="attachment_11474" align="alignnone" width="639"] An innovative study by an MIT economist found that in 10 major countries, companies…
UW-Madison team wins Innovation Award in Hyperloop competition
[caption id="attachment_11466" align="alignnone" width="620"] The Badgerloop team poses with its pod. BADGERLOOP[/caption] A team of University of Wisconsin–Madison students won an innovation award in a worldwide SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition. The UW–Madison Badgerloop team competed…