3D-printed 'hyperelastic bone' may help generate new bone for skull reconstruction

Defects of the skull and facial bones can pose difficult challenges for plastic and reconstructive surgeons.…

Protecting rare species can benefit human life

Preserving rare species for the sake of global biodiversity has long been the primary focus for…

NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar Landers

NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its…

Planet-Hunter CubeSat Images Los Angeles

The only small satellite in orbit that can also look for new planets beyond…

Oscar Avalos Dreams in Titanium

As wide-eyed visitors descend on the machine shop at Explore JPL, 36-year veteran and…

Training a neural network to study dark matter

A research group is using a deep learning method known as generative adversarial networks to enhance…

A quarter of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now unstable

By combining 25 years of ESA satellite data, scientists have discovered that warming ocean waters have…

Researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials

Researchers have developed a low-cost sensor that can be interlaced into textiles and composite materials. While…

Designing biological movement on the nanometer scale

Synthetic proteins have now been created that can move in response to their environment in predictable…

How host-cell enzymes combat the coronavirus

Host-cell enzymes called PARP12 and PARP14 are important for inhibiting mutant forms of a coronavirus, according…