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Inventor Roger Billings reveals plan for hydrogen car with fuel cell

On his program “Science Live," inventor Roger Billings recently unveiled a plan for a new type of hydrogen car.

NASA and partners launch mission to monitor sea levels

NASA has teamed up with US and European partners to launch a satellite intended to monitor global sea levels as world leaders become more concerned with the rising sea levels around the world.

Microbiology Spectrum, a new scientific journal, launching in 2021

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has established plans for a new journal titled Microbiology Spectrum, set to launch in spring of 2021.

Bending light to improve optics and circuitry

Rainbows are created when light enters a water droplet, causing the light to diffract into many colors.

EMORY: Engineered 'stealth bomber' virus could be new weapon against metastatic cancer

Many cancer researchers can claim to have devised “smart bombs.” What has been missing is the stealth bomber – a delivery system that can slip through the body’s radar defenses.

Advance in synthetic DNA production promises practical storage capability

A new advance in a method to synthetically produce DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) brings us closer to using DNA to efficiently store the increasingly huge amount of information the world generates.

UMICH: Using ancient minerals from deep within Earth’s crust to measure cosmic radiation

If you want to understand a part of Earth’s galactic history—whether it passed near a supernova during its path around our galaxy, for example—you may be able to find the answer in the crystal structure of a rock, according to a University of Michigan study.

Catalog of proteins encoded by human genome published

A special issue of the Journal of Proteome Research celebrates the 90% completion of the human proteome, a catalog of all the proteins encoded by the human genome.

‘Father’s Day Fossil’ overturns rule of attributing hominin skull differences to species differences

2-million-year-old skull discovered in South Africa in 2018 shows climate change affected development

A gene within a gene discovered in SARS-CoV-2

Researchers studying SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, have found it contains a previously unknown overlapping gene. Understanding such genes will improve our knowledge and could even alter how we fight it.

Pattern-based polymerization and the future of smart-textiling

Researchers have found a way to create fiber materials that are capable of protecting "underlying areas from UV light," which helps to solve a greater problem when it comes to smart materials.

AAAS selects outstanding members to join the ranks of fellows

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently said that 489 of its members were named fellows.

Team wins award for COVID-19 research project

A 12-member team of researchers was awarded the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for research involving COVID-19.

Science association taps four UCLA professors as fellows

Four UCLA faculty members were named 2020 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Scientists discover that platypuses glow in the dark

The platypus just became known for another unusual characteristic: It is biofluorescent.

DeepMind's artificial intelligence algorithm accurately models unique protein folding structure

An artificial intelligence (AI) program has successfully cracked a 50-year problem in biology: How to accurately determine the three-dimensional structure of protein folding from the protein's amino acid sequence.

Future quantum computers have the potential to crack today's internet encryption

Mathematician Peter Shor — creator of the revolutionary method for making quantum computers possible — now warns that quantum computing threatens to crack the encryption coding used by conventional computers.

An update on origin-of-life research: DNA self-assembly in the solid state using heat

DNA is the code of life. In order to better understand life, scientists are seeking an explanation for its beginnings.

U.S. House, Senate budget talks show potential impact government science programs

As the year winds down, so does government funding, as a budget is on the table with an omnibus funding package with 12 appropriation bills that include funding that directly impacts the science community.

NIH: All of Us Research Program returns first genetic results to participants

The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has begun to return genetic results to participants who have donated biosamples for research.