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Cleaning Oil Spills With Paper Mill Sludge?
February 25, 2013 — Eco-innovation is at its best when the waste of one industry becomes the raw material of another. This is precisely what a new research project CAPS, is attempting to do with waste sludge from ... > full story -
Mouse Mothers Induce Parenting Behaviors in Fathers With Ultra-Sonic Noises
February 25, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated the existence of communicative signalling from female mice that induces male parental ... > full story -
'NanoVelcro' Device to Grab Single Cancer Cells from Blood: Improvement Enables 'Liquid Biopsies' for Metastatic Melanoma
February 25, 2013 — Researchers have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements to their ... > full story -
Spiderman's Webbing Would Be Strong Enough to Stop a Moving Train, Say Physics Students
February 25, 2013 — In Spiderman 2, the superhero uses his webbing to bring a runaway train to a standstill moments before it plummets over the end of the track. But could a material with the strength and toughness of ... > full story -
Scientists Find Genes Linked to Human Neurological Disorders in Sea Lamprey Genome
February 24, 2013 — Scientists have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose ... > full story -
Graphene: A Material That Multiplies the Power of Light
February 24, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated that graphene is able to convert a single photon that it absorbs into multiple electrons that could drive electric current -- a very promising discovery that makes ... > full story -
The Ultimate Chimp Challenge: Chimps Do Challenging Puzzles for the Fun of It
February 24, 2013 — Scientists are putting their bananas away, because chimpanzees don't need any persuading when it comes to getting stuck into brain ... > full story -
Lessons from Cockroaches Could Inform Robotics
February 22, 2013 — Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how ... > full story -
The Lifetime Journeys of Manure-Based Microbes
February 22, 2013 — Studies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are shedding some light on the microbes that dwell in cattle manure -- what they are, where they thrive, where they struggle, and where they can end ... > full story -
Stash of Stem Cells Found in a Human Parasite
February 22, 2013 — Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world. These stem cells can regenerate worn-down organs, which ... > full story
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