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The machinist: A maker finds his calling in upstate New York

From Today's Issue

Join John Buettler, a machinist, as he shares the passion he brings to the job of helping to construct the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source

Meet the HoneyBot: A robot built to fight hackers

From the 06.26.18 Issue

Cybersecurity experts have a new tool in the fight against hackers: a decoy robot

UAVs help chase storms to learn how atmosphere interacts with land

From the 06.25.18 Issue

University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher Adam Houston is part of a team using mobile mesonets and unmanned aerial vehicles to study thunderstorms

Nighttime heat stresses wheat

From the 06.22.18 Issue

Kansas State University agronomists Krishna Jagadish and Allan Fritz talk about a research project they're conducting, which is testing the impact of high nighttime temperatures on a wheat stand's ability to produce good yields and quality grain

Earthquakes: Separating fact from fiction

From the 06.21.18 Issue

Scientists describe the advancements in scientifically based earthquake research, which today relies on detailed simulations of ground movements using some of the world's largest and most capable supercomputers

Discovery helps explain how Greenland's ice sheet responds to shifting temperatures

From the 06.20.18 Issue

A tiny clue found in ancient sediment has unlocked big secrets about Greenland's past and future climate

New printable and flexible ceramic bone grafts could be a game changer

From the 06.19.18 Issue

The transplanting of bone tissue, known as bone grafting, typically involves allograft, which is bone from a deceased donor, or autograft, which comes from the patient's own body

Using the unused: Bottles to trees

From the 06.18.18 Issue

Douglass Jacobs and Owen Burney have developed Bottles to Trees, a program to address the need for a nursery system that translates into reforestation in countries, such as Afghanistan and Haiti, where trees are desperately needed

Museum sack-bearer moth specimens generate new possibilities for DNA research

From the 06.15.18 Issue

Ryan St. Laurent, a doctoral student in the Kawahara Lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History, published a study showing that certain molecular techniques can allow researchers to extract as much DNA from dried museum sack-bearer moth specimens as from ethanol-preserved, recently collected material

A feat of reverse engineering

From the 06.14.18 Issue

Researchers at Tufts University have developed a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a sugar called xylose

Taking a closer look with a lens-free fluorescent microscope

From the 06.13.18 Issue

Lenses are no longer necessary -- at least, not in the research world -- according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass those of old-school devices

This device can turn desert air into water

From the 06.12.18 Issue

Last October, a University of California, Berkeley, team headed down to the Arizona desert, plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home and started sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight

Acidic oceans pose increased risk of reef loss

From the 06.11.18 Issue

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, along with study-lead Southern Cross University in Australia, have found that sands that provide material for the building and maintenance of some coral reef ecosystems face a decline

Mantis Cam allows humans to see like sea creatures

From the 06.08.18 Issue

National Science Foundation-funded researchers at University of Illinois-Champagne have developed Mantis Cam, a bio-inspired camera which mimics the eyes of the mantis shrimp

New technology lends a robotic hand to patients in need of physical assistance

From the 06.07.18 Issue

A robot at Georgia Tech is successfully sliding hospital gowns on people's arms to address the needs of more than 1 million Americans who require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury

Detecting biological contaminants in water and pharmaceuticals

From the 06.06.18 Issue

Spheryx, Inc., a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), created a technology to monitor, count and characterize microscopic particles in a variety of fluids, such as water, chemicals or even pharmaceuticals

Engineering smarter robotic boats for safer, cheaper work on the water

From the 06.05.18 Issue

These roboticists may work on opposite U.S. coasts, but they envision the same future for work on the water -- fleets of boats and ships operating more safely, efficiently and less expensively with the help of robotics

A new map for a birthplace of stars: The Orion A molecular cloud

From the 06.04.18 Issue

A Yale University-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth's sun

How scientists measure carbon dioxide in the air

From the 06.01.18 Issue

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Keeling Curve, Ralph Keeling of the Scripps CO2 Program shows how scientists make carbon dioxide measurements.

E-reader enables blind to scan text like sighted readers

From the 05.31.18 Issue

National Science Foundation-funded researchers at Texas A&M University have developed STAAR e-reader that enables blind readers to read spatially as sighted readers do