A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
The science of stereotyping: Challenging the validity of…
MADISON - "Gaydar" - the purported ability to infer whether people are gay or straight based on their appearance - seemed to get a scientific boost from a 2008 study that concluded people could accurately…
Flue study, on holds, yields new vaccine technology
[caption id="attachment_6081" align="alignright" width="199"] Yoshihiro Kawaoka[/caption] MADISON -- Vaccines to protect against an avian influenza pandemic as well as seasonal flu may be mass produced more quickly and efficiently using technology described by researchers at…
Manipulating the Rotational Direction of Artificial Molecular Motors…
A research group in Japan has fabricated molecular motors on a metal substrate using supramolecules, and successfully reversed rotation of molecular motors by rearranging bonding between molecules that constitute a supramolecule. [caption id="attachment_6078" align="alignright" width="300"]…
NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science…
[caption id="attachment_6075" align="alignnone" width="985"] NASA’s SMAP mission, launched in January to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed, continues to produce high-quality science measurements with one of its two instruments.Credits:…