Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dangling from a weather balloon 80,000 feet above New Mexico, a pair of antennas sticks out from a Styrofoam cooler. From that...
Snakes don’t go with their gut, they regenerate it
Humans aren't capable of regrowing limbs like some salamanders or full organs like some snails and zebrafish, but we do renew some of our cells,...
This week with NSF Director Panchanathan
This week, Director Sethuraman Panchanathan underscored the progress and accomplishments that NSF investments are having on innovation and research.The director traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, to...
Climate futures for lizards and snakes
Scientists gathered data on the recent distributions of 130 lizard and snake species found from Mexico to western Canada. The climate in each species’ current...
Sending clear signals: Cooke bridges academia, industry in ORNL-Tennessee Tech collaboration
Years before becoming a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Corey Cooke hit a discouraging setback in his pursuit of an...
USGS Friday’s Findings – October 25, 2024
Sixteen years after Pd, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, was first recognized in New York, its range now extends to the Rocky...
Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates
Lianhong Gu, co-author, photosynthesis expert and distinguished staff scientist in ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division, helped develop the project’s mesophyll conductance model, which represents numerically the...
Surfing atmospheric waves with tiny satellites
A U.S. National Science Foundation-supported team is designing and building three identical CubeSats, or shoebox-sized satellites, to study space weather and demonstrate new technologies.The CubeSats...
Pesticides affect the health of wild bees, important plant pollinators
Native wild bees native play a critical role in ecosystems, pollinating countless plant species, including agricultural crops. Pollination from wild and managed bees benefits some...
Dead coral skeletons left by bleaching events hinder reef recovery
Coral reefs are like underwater cities, with myriad species forming a thriving ocean metropolis. That complexity, however, can hinder a reef's survival, scientists funded by...