IMAGE: deepai COLOGNE, Dec 31 – Scientists in Germany have identified a biological mechanism that helps explain why small cell lung cancer (SCLC), one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer, relapses quickly despite…
Wrapping carbon nanotubes in polymers enhances their performance
Scientists at Japan’s Kyushu University say polymer-wrapped carbon nanotubes hold much promise in biotechnology and energy applications. The paper was recently published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. [caption id="attachment_3716" align="alignright" width="300"] Carbon nanotubes…
Seth R. Marder Receives 2015 MRS Mid-Career Researcher…
Georgia Institute of Technology professor honored for chemical structure–property characterization of organic molecules. [caption id="attachment_3693" align="alignright" width="199"] Seth R. Marder[/caption] The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Seth R. Marder, professor and Georgia Power Chair in…
Reviewing online homework at scale
System clusters similar student programs together, so instructors can identify broad trends. [caption id="attachment_3690" align="alignnone" width="639"] MIT graduate students Elena Glassman and Jeremy ScottPhoto: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In computer-science classes, homework assignments consist of…
NASA Administrator, President’s Science Advisor to Speak with…
[caption id="attachment_3686" align="alignnone" width="673"] The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43's NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the…