Science

Boeing-Equipped P-8A Training Center Opens at Whidbey Island

Boeing has installed a new P-8A Poseidon training center at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., as the base begins preparations for the arrival of P-8 aircraft beginning in 2017.

A new spin on superconductivity: Harvard physicists pass spin information through a superconductor

Every electronic device -- from a supercomputer to a dishwasher -- works by controlling the flow of charged electrons. But electrons can carry so much more information than just charge; electrons also spin, like a gyroscope on axis.

Pokhara (Nepal) all set to host KaSAM-2016: An International Scientific Meeting on Advanced Materials

Santosh Thapa, PhD Fellow at the US based University of North Texas Health Science Center and one of the members of the Organizing Committee informed us that “More than 140 research papers on recent advancement in material sciences and engineering...

2D-nanocellulose: piezoelectric driven by a hydrogen bonds pattern

In the next coming years nanocellulose (NC) would attract lot of attention from industrial researchers (market value is estimated to be 530 M$ worldwide by 2020)(1). The process of development and functionalization of NC materials is being promising...

Mission Prepares for Next Jupiter Pass

Mission managers for NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have decided to postpone the upcoming burn of its main rocket motor originally scheduled for Oct. 19. This burn, called the period reduction maneuver (PRM), was to reduce Juno's orbital period around...

Proxima Centauri Might Be More Sunlike Than We Thought

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UCLA chemists report new insights about properties of matter at the nanoscale: Research may lead to new, smaller molecular machines

"We are learning more and more about the properties of matter at the nanoscale so that we can design machines with specific functions," said senior author Miguel García-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences and professor of chemistry...

Most professional football players who have surgery for an injured disc in the upper spine return to play and perform at a high level, a new study contends.

Making sure cancer medications reach the leaky blood vessels surrounding most tumor sites is one of the critical aspects of treatment and drug delivery. While surface chemistry, molecular interactions, and other factors come into play once drug-...