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MIT engineers design soft and flexible “skeletons” for muscle-powered robots
New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power…
UW–Madison researchers develop better way to make painkiller from trees
Scientists have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain reliever and other valuable…
Good as Gold – Improving Infectious Disease Testing with Gold Nanoparticles
By harnessing the power of composite polymer particles adorned with gold nanoparticles, a group of researchers have delivered…
Breakthrough Test Can Evaluate Enzyme Involved in Process Associated with Cancer Cell Death
New research could pave the way to develop cancer drugs targeting an enzyme that inhibits ferroptosis, a type…
Exceptional meteorite, plowed up from a Dane County field, finds new home in UW Geology Museum
VIENNA, WIS. – It was a balmy spring day in May 2009 when Jim Koch’s plow kicked up…
NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return from Space Station
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth after a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Saturday
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Anthony Shadid journalist ethics award goes to associated press team
The Associated Press has won the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for reporting that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers used by the fishing industry in Southeast Asia.
New ESA Director of Launchers appointed
At a meeting of the ESA Council held in Paris in restricted session on 16 March 2016, the appointment of Mr Daniel Neuenschwander as ESA Director of Launchers was announced.
Unravelling the Wonders of Traditional Medicine
A Malaysia-China joint research team explores on new medicinal uses of Malaysian traditional herbs Eurycoma longifolia, also known as Tongkat Ali.
Independent science is managed and developed by individuals not by organizations
Science Talk: Theoretically speaking, there is no differences between developing and the well developed countries because all countries need to treat well themselves from the level they are today.
