Bloggers
Poetry Friday: Building Materials
By building a new Minecraft mod, Researchers found a way to turn A world that was both fun and odd Into a place where Steve could learn.
Feb 17, 2017
Bloggers
Luminescence switchable carbon nanodots follow intracellular trafficking and drug delivery
Tiny carbon dots have, for the first time, been applied to intracellular imaging and tracking of drug delivery involving various optical and vibrational spectroscopic-based techniques such as fluorescence, Raman, and hyperspectral imaging.
Feb 13, 2017
Health
Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small pediatric clinical trial
NIH-funded research suggests zebrafish models may be efficient resource for identifying drugs for clinical use.
Feb 12, 2017
Bloggers
Nano-level lubricant tuning improves material for electronic devices and surface coatings
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which is ubiquitously used as a solid lubricant, has recently been shown to have a two-dimensional (2D) form that is similar to graphene.
Feb 10, 2017
Bloggers
Solar Stranding
The waves assault an unfamiliar shore, As bodies writhe beneath the azure sheet; And astral squalls prepare their tools of war.
Feb 9, 2017
Bloggers
Sensors embedded in sports equipment could provide real-time analytics to your smartphone
Sports analytics—tracking how fast the ball is moving or how players move across the field—is becoming a key component of how coaches make decisions and fans view games.
Feb 9, 2017
Health
UCLA researchers turn stem cells into somites, precursors to skeletal muscle, cartilage and bone
Adding just the right mixture of signaling molecules — proteins involved in development — to human stem cells can coax them to resemble somites, which are groups of cells that give rise to skeletal muscles, bones, and cartilage in developing embryos.
Feb 8, 2017
Bloggers
Air quality and climate change: Birds of a feather or different animals completely?
This notion of global warming – is it real? And, if it is, what’s the deal?! First, some background.
Feb 5, 2017
Bloggers
Crustacean Cloning
Split into two, I glisten in the shallow shore. Split into two; A bitter taste of déjà vu.
Feb 3, 2017
Health
The Strings That Bind Us: Cytofilaments Connect Cell Nucleus to Extracellular Microenvironment
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but new images of structural fibers inside a cell may represent more than a million words from hundreds of research papers spanning the past three decades.
Jan 27, 2017
Bloggers
Sonnet to Science
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Your reason built the grounds on which we stand.
Jan 26, 2017
Brain & Behavior
Mindfulness Meditation Training Lowers Biomarkers of Stress Response in Anxiety Disorder
Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular treatment for anxiety, but testing its effectiveness in a convincing way has been difficult.
Jan 24, 2017
Bloggers
A Fake Diamond in the Sky
Your pockmarked face conceals a hidden truth, Guarding your age like some resentful crone And leading us astray with dreams of youth.
Jan 19, 2017
Bloggers
Tool to map gene’s ‘social network’ sheds light on function, interactions and drug efficacy
Although the human genome has been mapped, many questions remain about how genes are regulated, how they interact with one another, and what function some genes serve.
Jan 19, 2017