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And what better housewarming gift for a space enthusiast than the tree that started it all. The Malus pumila Rosaceae, or Flower of Kent, now growing heartily on McNeills property, is one of a handful of scions, or cuttings, growing around New Zealand. The original is still standing at Woolsthorpe Manor, in Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom, where Newton escaped a bubonic plague outbreak for what historians call his Year of Wonders, owing to his contributions to optics, physics and calculu...

By Kevin Krajick In 1966, U.S. Army scientists drilled through nearly a mile of ice in northwestern Greenland and pulled up a 15-foot-long core of sediment from the bottom. The sample, abandoned and largely forgotten in a series of freezers for decades, was accidentally rediscovered in 2017. Researchers who later examined it were stunned to find it contained not just the usual sand and rock found under glacial ice, but well-preserved remains of twigs and leaves—the first discovery of onetime ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Madan, a postdoctoral researcher in the DeKosky lab at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, headed research into potential of the vFP16.02 antibody view more  Credit: Matheus Oliveira de Souza LAWRENCE -- Much like coronavirus, circulating HIV-1 viruses mutate into diverse variants that pose challenges for scientists developing vaccines to protect people from HIV/AIDS. "AIDS vaccine development has been a decades-long challenge partly because our immune systems ha...

Thu, 03/11/2021 LAWRENCE — Much like coronavirus, circulating HIV-1 viruses mutate into diverse variants that pose challenges for scientists developing vaccines to protect people from HIV/AIDS. “AIDS vaccine development has been a decades-long challenge partly because our immune systems have difficulty recognizing all the diverse variants of the rapidly mutating HIV virus, which is the cause of AIDS,” said Brandon DeKosky, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemical & pet...

March 8, 2021 NIST postdoctoral researcher and physicist Alejandra Collopy is part of a team making strides in understanding the world of atoms and molecules, a world that operates by the rules of quantum physics.  The U.S. Department of Commerces National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the Nations leading agency working with industry and science to advance innovation, enhance economic security and improve quality of life. And NIST is home to many women across the fields of sc...

Mascoma Lake ice safety workshop shows how to avoid falling through, get out if you do Enfield Firefighter Andrew Burse plunges himself into Mascoma Lake during ice rescue training in Enfield, N.H., Saturday, March 6, 2021. Firefighters demonstrated rescues with the use of throw-ropes, harnesses, a team rescue with a backboard, and self-rescue with ice picks to a crowd gathered to observe. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without perm...

February 25, 2021 By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A professor with the Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University Tri-Cities is developing a way to drastically improve energy production at small waste water treatment plants. The research has the potential to be scaled globally. Birgitte Ahring, professor of biological systems engineering and chemical engineering, received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office ...

Montana-Designed Satellite Is Launched Almost all the space excitement this week has been on Mars, where the latest NASA rover, Perseverance, landed and started sending back incredible views, such as video of its landing - a film first. I say "almost," because a resupply launch to the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday, February 20, carried a little satellite designed and constructed by a team at Montana State University in Bozeman. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft lifted o...

NASA Launches Satellite Designed and Built by MSU Students Published: February 24, 2021 The Ionospheric-Thermospheric Scanning Photometer for Ion-Neutral Studies (IT-SPINS) mission proposes to provide the first two-dimensional (2D) tomographic imaging from a 3U research CubeSat, addressing the basic nature of the nocturnal ionosphere. This 6-month mission aims to strengthen our fundamental understanding for development of ion gradient structures in the topside of the Earth’s ionosphere and se...

Boise State News February 24, 2021 From the single falling snowflake to the terrifying power of an avalanche, snow is something that Boise State researchers take pretty seriously. It’s no wonder when one realizes that winter snowfall is responsible for about 70 percent of Boise and Idaho’s water supply. Globally, the world depends upon snowpack and snow melt for everything from hydropower to agriculture production. Snow is an integral part of successful economies, ecology, the e...