Found: A sweet way to make everyday things almost indestructible

The secret to making clothing practically indestructible could be the same thing that makes us grow…

Safe, low-cost, modular, self-programming robots

Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities…

SimBlock: A simulator for testing improvements to real-world blockchain networks

Kazuyuki Shudo, his colleagues, and the Cybersecurity Research Center at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/27/2019

Human Resources Facility (HRF) 1 Centrifuge: The crew set up and checked out the HRF1 Centrifuge…

EPA refuses to give Congress documents on rejection of NASA flight after Hurricane Harvey

Congressional Democrats are chiding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for thwarting a House committee’s investigation into…

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals structures of protein that maintains cell membranes

Using cutting-edge electron microscopy, researchers from Aarhus University have determined the first structures of a lipid-flippase.…

Protein scissors for cellular transport

In many ways, a cell is like a city. Proteins or people do daily work to…

NASA's TESS mission finds its smallest planet yet

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and…

Growing embryonic tissues on a chip

It’s no surprise that using human embryos for biological and medical research comes with many ethical…

Rich defects boosting the oxygen evolution reaction

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with sluggish reaction kinetics and large over-potential is the severe reaction…