As one of the largest-volume industrial chemical processes today, hydroformylation converts olefins, H2 and CO into aldehydes and related products more than 10 million tons annually. Although Au exh… [+2366 chars]
A Columbia Engineering team has created a robot that is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch. In a nutshell, the robot created a kinematic model of itself and used it to plan motion… [+3089 chars]
Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will be t… [+7036 chars]
Atomic rearrangement changes a material's physical and chemical properties, which may lead to potential applications across disciplines, including in sustainable energy. With two decades of focused a… [+4418 chars]
Cookie List A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website when visited by a user asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your … [+4205 chars]
Introduction Cisplatin is an extensively used chemotherapeutic drug for various types of human cancer. However, 20–35% of patients are diagnosed with renal dysfunction after cisplatin intervention, … [+33274 chars]
Fossil tooth analysis by Southern Cross University geochemist Dr. Renaud Joannes-Boyau has played a central role in an international collaboration that has properly identified the earliest humans. T… [+5844 chars]
Forced to spend their days slamming their tiny skulls into the sides of trees in search of buried morsels, woodpeckers should have evolved a trick or two to avoid brain damage. So you'd think. A new… [+3776 chars]
The primary objective of the European Space Agencys (ESA) Gaia satellite is to observe more than a billion stars to create the most accurate and complete map of the Milky Way. The mission recently re… [+4866 chars]
IntroductionRecognizing that science and exploration go hand in hand, NASA created SSERVI in 2013 to advance human exploration of the Moon and other solar system destinations. The SSERVI Awards recog… [+15326 chars]
IntroductionRecognizing that science and exploration go hand in hand, NASA created SSERVI in 2013 to advance human exploration of the Moon and other solar system destinations. The SSERVI Awards recog… [+15326 chars]
James Webb Space Telescope launches on December 26, 2021. Photo: Xinhua The powerful James Webb Space Telescope's inaugural batch of images has opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astro… [+4709 chars]