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Bio-inspired grooves delay airplane wing stalls: Nature’s solution to safer flight
For decades, aerospace engineers have grappled with the challenge of delaying airfoil stall—a critical safety hazard in aviation…
Researchers take heat sink experiments to space
The researchers investigated cooling methods for heat sinks by performing experiments onboard a satellite currently orbiting the Earth.…
Can the Large Hadron Collider snap string theory?
In physics, two great pillars of thought don’t quite fit together.
Native habitats hold the key to the much-loved smashed avocado’s future
The future of smashed avocados might depend on patches of native vegetation preserved alongside farmland, as new Curtin…
Planned hydrogen refuelling stations may lead to millions of euros in yearly losses
As hydrogen infrastructure is rolled out in the EU, refueling stations must be distributed according to the same…
Study reveals beneficial microbes that can sustain yields in unfertilized fields
Despite rice being the staple food for more than half of the world’s population, its cultivation remains highly…
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Global Academies Release New Guide to the Responsible Conduct of Scientific Research
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a global network of science and medical academies, publishes ‘Doing Global Science: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise’.
Five Women Biologists in Developing Countries Win 2016 Elsevier Foundation Awards
The winning scholars from Indonesia, Nepal, Peru, Uganda and Yemen are being honored for their accomplishments in nutrition, psychiatry, biotechnology, women’s health, bioenvironmental sciences and epidemiology.
Rice experts available to discuss gravitational waves
Two Rice University physicists are available to discuss the highly anticipated announcement that may confirm the discovery of gravitational waves by two detectors in the United States.
How sensitive and accurate are routine NMR and MS instruments?
Researchers in Russia have addressed technical questions concerning routine analytic characterization and provided a concise description of the most important features regarding the accuracy and sensitivity of NMR, EI-MS and…
