CRISPR method for conditional gene regulation

A team of engineers at the University of Delaware has developed a method to use CRISPR/Cas9…

Making it easier to capture carbon dioxide in the cement industry

Cement manufacture accounts for as much as seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A new…

How climate impacts solar and wind power supply

One of the challenges with solar and wind power is that, on any given day, the…

Cutting and pasting with graphene

To date it has proved very difficult to convert the promises of the miracle material graphene…

Researchers identify additional mechanisms at play in insecticide resistance

Researchers at LSTM have used a bioinformatics approach to integrate information from multiple studies on insecticide…

Climate change, models, mimics and predators: A complicated relationship

Climate change as a disruptive force has been studied in terms of its effects on direct…

Citations show academic and non-academic researchers ‘win’ when they collaborate

Findings in new article indicate that when academics work with business, government, and/or NGO partners they…

Going viral: New cells for norovirus production in the lab

Human norovirus is a major cause of infections that can be particularly dangerous to children and…

‘Pest-controlling’ bats could help save rainforests

A new study shows that several species of bats are giving Madagascar's rice farmers a vital…

ICESat-2 Reveals Profile of Ice Sheets

Less than three months into its mission, NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2,…