English.news.cn 2014-09-09 10:04:52 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) — Harvard University announced Monday its school of public health has received 350-million-U.S.-dollar donation, the largest in Harvard’s history, from a charitable foundation run by Hong Kong billionaire brothers Ronnie and Gerald Chan…. Read More ›
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Gravity measurements confirm subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
California Institute of Technology This illustration depicts the possible interior of Enceladus based on Cassini’s gravity investigation. At high southern latitudes, a regional water ocean is shown sandwiched between an icy outer shell and a low density, rocky core…. Read More ›
Creating indestructible self-healing circuits
Contact: Brian Bell bbell2@caltech.edu 626-395-5832 California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers build electronic chips that repair themselves PASADENA, Calif.—Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from… Read More ›
Geologists: Groundwater extraction caused earthquake in Spain
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, October 21, 2012 21:05 EDT Topics: earthquakes ♦ Groundwater extraction Massive extraction of groundwater helped unleash an earthquake in southeastern Spain last year that killed nine people, injured at least 100 and left thousands homeless, geologists… Read More ›
UCLA/Pitt scientists uncover virus with potential to stop pimples in their tracks
Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences Going viral to kill zits Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks… Read More ›
Intestinal bacteria promote — and prevent — inflammatory bowel disease
2008 – re-post for filing Contact: David Cameron david_cameron@hms.harvard.edu 617-432-0441 Harvard Medical School BOSTON, Mass. (May 28, 2008)—Scientists search for drug candidates in some very unlikely places. Not only do they churn out synthetic compounds in industrial-scale laboratories, but they… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 