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WATER WORLD Coral reefs: Centuries of human impact

"Coral reef ecosystems now appear to be unraveling before our eyes, with intensifying outbreaks of coral disease and bleaching threatening the persistence of reef habitats and the immense biodiversity they support," said Katie Cramer, an assistant research pro... more

SPACE MEDICINE New Database to Improve Astronaut Health Could Benefit Earthlings

Dr. Guy Trudel (Professor in the Faculty of Medicine), Odette Laneuville (Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, and Director of the Biomedical Sciences) and Dr. Martin Pelchat (Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunolo... more

TECH SPACE Color-changing smart material sensor to alert user to get out of sun

According to the American Cancer Society approximately 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancers are diagnosed each year. Yet, the sun does contribute to the production of Vitamin D, which is necessary for bone health, and perhaps even useful in prevent... more

FARM NEWS Vaccinating cattle against E. coli O157 could cut human cases of infection by 85 percent

Vaccinating cattle against the E. coli O157 bacterium could cut the number of human cases of the disease by 85%, according to scientists. The bacteria, which cause severe gastrointestinal illness and even death in humans, are spread by consuming contaminated f... more

ROCKET SCIENCE NASA Student Launch program selects 46 teams

The eight-month challenge, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, provides a realistic experience for middle school, high school, and college students to follow the engineering design process NASA and industry engineers use when... more

NANO TECH 'Nanomotor lithography' answers call for affordable, simpler device manufacturing

What does it take to fabricate electronic and medical devices tinier than a fraction of a human hair? Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego recently invented a new method of lithography in which nanoscale robots swim over the surface of ligh... more

SPACE MEDICINE Giant infrared photovoltaic effect in tellurene shows potential for broad-spectrum neuromodulation

In a new study published in 'Light: Science and Applications', a research team led by Professor Weida Hu from the State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a significant... more

ROBODAILY Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells

The multicellular robots, ranging in size from the width of a human hair to the point of a sharpened pencil, were made to self-assemble and shown to have a remarkable healing effect on other cells. The discovery is a starting point for the researchers' vision ... more