A smart grid in action
An Alabama A&M professor is part of a team that’s using computer algorithms to wring efficiency from solar powered plants. Continue reading A smart grid in action
A scintillating approach to radiation detection
Radiation detectors are at work every day and everywhere. They inspect cargo at airports, seaports, and border crossings. They discover new forms of matter inside particle accelerators. They collect data in advanced diagnostic technologies used by our doctors and dentists. And they sniff out invisible radioactive gases that leach into our homes. In 2013, Arnold … Continue reading A scintillating approach to radiation detection
Is nano even new?
A Howard University professor and her colleagues wax philosophical about one of the biggest buzzwords in science. Continue reading Is nano even new?
Do nothing to stem global warming, and some hardy coral will live on
An international collaboration, including one researcher from the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, predicts some winners—not just losers—for coral species in a warming ocean.
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Our origin story
Here’s a gloomy stat: African Americans make up 12 percent of the US population, but earn just 2% of all doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math, and less than 2% of the doctorates in the physical sciences. To a casual observer, there would appear to be scant few role models for young blacks … Continue reading Our origin story
This family preyed together, didn’t stay together
A Florida A&M professor grapples with an age-old problem–how to classify the creatures among us Continue reading This family preyed together, didn’t stay together
Could dissolvable metal be the future of medical implants?
Researchers at North Carolina A&T State University reveal the conditions that allow tissue and bone cells to attach and grow on magnesium-based metals, a promising class of implant material.
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For heart health, the beet goes on
At Howard, a home remedy for hypertension gets put through a workout. Continue reading For heart health, the beet goes on
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