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…
More frequent hurricanes not necessarily stronger on Atlantic…
[caption id="attachment_11163" align="alignnone" width="621"] Terra MODIS image of Hurricane Matthew from Oct. 7, 2016. SPACE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTER (SSEC), UW–MADISON[/caption] Active Atlantic hurricane periods, like the one we are in now, are not necessarily…
Possible Treatment Targets Found for Pre-Malignant Bone Marrow…
Cincinnati Children's researchers report in Nature Immunology a new mechanism that controls blood cell function and several possible molecular targets for treating myelodysplasia syndromes (MDS) - a group of pre-malignant disorders in which bone marrow does not…
Antibiotic Resistance Just Became More Complex
[caption id="attachment_11156" align="alignnone" width="631"] Stills from video. Staphylococci bacteria, which have been labelled with a green fluorescent protein, express a resistance gene for the antibiotic chloramphenicol. Black Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria do not have the resistance…
Rice probes ways to turn cement’s weakness to…
Rice University lab's calculations show new mechanisms to induce strength, ductility into concrete [caption id="attachment_11153" align="alignnone" width="621"] A screw dislocation disrupts the regular rows of atoms in tobermorite, a naturally occurring crystalline analog to the…