Just 50 to 150 nanometers thick, about 1/1,000th the thickness of a single human hair, Nanolaser can fit and function inside living tissues, with the potential to sense disease bio-markers or perhaps treat deep-brain neurological […]
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FCC authorizes city-scale 5G testbeds in NYC
The Federal Communications Commission has authorized its first two city-scale testbeds for wireless communications and network technology experiments, including 5G, across a range of spectrum bands. Rice University, a partner at the Salt Lake City […]
Read moreResearch to deliver drugs at the cellular level
An engineer at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering creates the first protein-engineered hydrogel that meets those criteria, advancing an area of biochemistry critical not only to the future of drug delivery, but also to […]
Read moreReimagining the Internet: $20 Million NSF Grant
Internet2 partners with community members on the $20 million NSF grant funded FABRIC, a collaborative project involving eighteen institutions that will provide a nationwide test-bed for reimagining how data can be stored, computed and moved […]
Read moreCollapse of protein processes drives aging and death
A new Stony Brook University-led study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides a biophysical model that reveals how with age, damage accumulates in the shapes of cellular proteins and triggers […]
Read moreRochester says brain stimulation can accelerate visual learning
It is possible to improve ones visual perception with practice, in the case of both healthy adults and people who experience vision loss from a traumatic brain injury or stroke. Researchers at the University of […]
Read morePrinceton geoscientists explore landmass collision
A team of Princeton University researchers is exploring a new effect of a landmass collision that occurred about 50 million years ago. We know that when the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed […]
Read morePrinceton explores predator-prey relationships
A team of ecologists at Princeton University are exploring predator-prey interactions –and how predators will affect biodiversity and ecosystems — by exploring the behavior of the prey. The researchers traveled to a small island in […]
Read moreAlbany research links childhood adversity to adulthood depression
Research out of the School of Public Health at the University at Albany says that people who face adversity as children are at a significantly greater risk for depression as adults. The researchers explain that […]
Read moreStony Brook study finds education postpones Alzheimer’s
Building off the idea that exercising the brain improves cognition, a new study by Stony Brook University researchers reveals that higher education is associated with a later onset of Alzheimer’s-related cognitive declines. Specifically, the researchers […]
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