The delicate butterfly served as the inspiration for a new lightweight lattice structure that also boasts enhanced mechanical strength, impact resistance, and energy absorption capability through advanced structural design. A collaborative research team from Tohoku…
University of Mississippi research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D-printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure. In a study published in Pharmaceutical…
Understanding mechanism of Cryptosporidium infection will support drug development [caption id="attachment_5113" align="alignright" width="300"] (Upper) Life cycle of Cryptosporidium. (Bottom) Inhibitory efficacy of heparin on Cryptosporidium infection is concentration dependent (increases with concentration). © 2015 Kentaro…
Description Jupiter’s moon Europa is a bizarre place. There is something undeniably biological about this image, sent back by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft – the moon is scarred by deep red gashes, resembling the vibrant red…
[caption id="attachment_5106" align="alignright" width="225"] Spider behavior on water surface. Sailing behavior: linyphiid (a, c) and tetragnathid (b, d) spiders moving on the water surface with their legs (a, b) or abdomen (c, d) used as…
[caption id="attachment_5097" align="alignright" width="305"] Aquanaut on NEEMO waterwalk[/caption] ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is to lead NASA’s 20th underwater astronaut training mission this month. Starting on 20 July, the 14-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations sortie,…