How accumulating useful genes helps older yeast fare better in tougher times

Genome amplification, whereby organisms bump up the number of copies of beneficial genes in response to…

Detecting solar flares, more in real time

Computers can learn to find solar flares and other events in vast streams of solar images…

Study shows Southern Arizona once looked like Tibet

A University of Wyoming researcher and his colleagues have shown that much of the southwestern United…

NASA catches typhoon Kammuri post landfall

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP or S-NPP satellite provided infrared and night-time imagery of Typhoon Kammuri shortly after…

Researchers develop a mass-producible, centimeter-scale metalens for VR, imaging

Metalenses—flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light—are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras,…

Novel material switches between electrically conducting and insulating states

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a novel design strategy to identify new materials exhibiting a metal-insulator…

NASA-NOAA satellite finds development of tropical cyclone 06A

Imagery from NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite showed that a tropical depression in the Arabian Sea has…

Genomic gymnastics help sorghum plant survive drought

Scorching temperatures and parched earth are no match for the sorghum plant—this cereal crop, native to…

Young tree swallows carry environmental stress into adulthood

Cornell University researchers have found that colder temperatures during tree swallows’ development stage has an effect…

Towards high quality zinc oxide quantum dots for biomedical applications

Nanocrystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) is currently one of the most commonly used semiconductor metal oxide nanomaterials…