Relationships between scientists and the news media have evolved tremendously over the past 25 years, and scientists should continue to improve communications with both the media and the lay public.
The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energys (DOEs) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 petaflops, or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.
A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but its only one percent of these microbial bugs that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.
A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.
The landmark $500 million biofuels research partnership that created the Energy Biosciences Institute has been named a Deal of Distinction by the Licensing Executives Society.
A minor chemical explosion occurred in a research laboratory in the Science & Engineering building on the University of California, Merced campus Saturday.