deepai WASHINGTON, Feb 26 – Growing crops on the moon or Mars may one day be possible by recycling human and plant waste into fertilizer, according to research published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.…
New Blood for TB Treatment
[caption id="attachment_2468" align="alignright" width="300"] A close-up of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture reveals the organism’s colonial morphology. Image: CDC/George Kubica[/caption] The same antiangiogenesis drugs that have improved treatment of some cancers could also help surmount persistent…
Predictions over fingerprints and wrinkles
New mathematical theory may explain patterns in fingerprints, raisins, and microlenses. [caption id="attachment_2465" align="alignright" width="300"] Pictured is a sphere with a combination of hexagons and labyrinthine patterns, and a more complex, torus-shaped object with hexagonal…
XMM-Newton and Hubble view of Jupiter’s ghost
Description Names of astronomical objects are often ambiguous, especially when the historical designation of a certain class of celestial body preceded their physical understanding and was based on their appearance in the sky. A notoriously…
Improvement in electric automobile sales may require solving…
In 2011, an important national priority was declared: Put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Since then, sales of plug-in electric vehicles have risen and continue to rise, but later there was…