Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities…
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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)…
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…
Men ask most of the questions at scientific conferences; we can choose to change that
Even in a majority-women audience at an academic conference, men ask questions most of the time,…
Malaria hijacks your genes to invade your liver
In the search for new weapons against malaria, most drug development has focused on the parasites…