Budapest — The CERN Council on Friday approved an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics, setting out priorities for the next decades of research and confirming plans for a possible new collider. The…
Engineered bacterium produces an important industrial chemical
[caption id="attachment_5636" align="alignright" width="300"] Metabolic engineering strategies for 1,3-diaminopropane production using C4 pathway Copyright: KAIST[/caption] A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at…
A Single Germline Stem Cell “Switch” May be…
[caption id="attachment_5595" align="alignright" width="293"] Crawling C. elegans hermaphrodite worm (Credit: Bob Goldstein, Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] Aging is not gradual in the C. elegans roundworm. It begins suddenly at reproductive maturity (or roundworm puberty), according to a…
KAIST Develops Fiber-Like Light Emitting Diodes for Wearable…
A research team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed fiber-like light emitting diodes, applicable to wearable displays. [caption id="attachment_5591" align="alignright" width="162"] The Next Generation Wearable Display Using Fiber Based Light…
Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution
New findings show Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought. [caption id="attachment_5587" align="alignnone" width="639"] Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants,…