Arizona State University has been awarded a four-year contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a novel diagnostic technology called immunosignaturing.
A $500,000 grant to Saint Louis University's Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics will fund the first ever remediation program to aid institutions when they discover researchers who have engaged in wrongdoing or unprofessional behavior.
Sealing cracks in roadways ensures structural integrity and extends the time between major repaving projects, but conventional manual crack sealing operations expose workers to dangerous traffic and cover a limited amount of roadway each day.
A future weapon in the battle against obesity and diabetes could come in the form of an oil derived from the seeds of wild almond trees, according to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
The updated site-specific risk assessment for the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility has a number of deficiencies and inadequately characterizes the risks associated with operating the facility, NRC says.
Overturning two long-held misconceptions about oil production in algae, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory show that ramping up the microbes’ overall metabolism by feeding them more carbon increases oil production.
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s newest facility, the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building (RLUOB), is also its first to achieve both LEED status and LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
The University of Delaware invites nominations for the 2013 Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit. Nomination forms are available at this website. Nominations are due by Sept. 11.