Black students receive fewer warnings from teachers about misbehavior

A social work professor found in a new study that black middle school students receive fewer…

Whole-tree harvesting could boost biomass production

Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires biomass, too. Click here for original…

Energy from seawater

A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and…

The 'blowfish effect': Children learn new words like adults do

Even 3- to 5-year-olds know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply…

Lung cell patches its own DNA on the fly to survive influenza

Scientists have identified one kind of lung cell that can hustle to repair its damaged DNA…

Oddball edge wins nanotube faceoff

A two-faced interface between growing carbon nanotubes and solid catalysts turns out to be more common…

Recovering color images from scattered light

Engineers have developed a method for extracting a color image from a single exposure of light…

Expanding functions of conducting microbial nanowires for chemical, biological sensors

Microbiologists report ‘a major advance’ in the quest to develop electrically conductive protein nanowires in the…

Camera can watch moving objects around corners

By analyzing single particles of light, this camera system can reconstruct room-size scenes and moving objects…

New insights into how the brain works

This study provides new insights into the functional relationships between inhibitory and excitatory neurons in the…