Engineering

Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the...

Credit: Photo: Pekka Marttinen Gene transfers are particularly common in the antibiotic-resistance genes of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. When mammals breed,...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 24, 2017--Researchers have used tissue engineering to create models for...

Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Feb. 24, 2017) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute and Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have...

Early this year, about 30 neuroscientists and computer programmers got together to improve their ability to read the human mind....

Credit: Victor O. Leshyk Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new tool to identify interactions...

Credit: (Image courtesy of Ahmad Rafsanjani/Harvard SEAS) Origami-inspired materials use folds in materials to embed powerful functionality. However, all that...

Credit: Created by Enrique Sahagun Heat transport is of similar fundamental importance and its control is for instance necessary to...

Wearable electronics are here -- the most prominent versions are sold in the form of watches or sports bands. But...

Lithium-ion batteries have become essential in everyday technology. But these power sources can explode under certain circumstances and are not...

The gene-editing tool called CRISPR that can quickly and cleanly remove specific pieces of DNA has revolutionized biotechnology. Many researchers...

Credit: Image: KIT Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress in the production of two-dimensional polymer-based...

Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Engineering researchers at Michigan State University have developed the first stretchable integrated...

Credit: Antti Paraoanu Researchers at Aalto University, Finland are the first to develop a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible...

Credit: Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd Singapore (Jan. 3, 2017) - Singapore-based publisher Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd has launched...

Credit: Walid Saad/Virginia Tech When Superstorm Sandy lashed New Jersey in 2012, Narayan B. Mandayam lost power in his East...

Credit: acib If there were no biotechnology, the world would stand still. "Biotechnologically derived drugs dominate therapy with eight of...

This news release was issued on 28-Sept-2016 Solar panels are proliferating across the globe to help reduce the world's dependency...

University of Colorado Boulder engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater...