Science news articles about 'accidental discovery'

... to create it. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. "Basically, this was an accidental discovery," said Mas Subramanian, the Milton Harris Professor of Materials Science in the ...

Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a ...

... . She also serves as lead investigator and co-director of CLiPS. The discovery was a serendipitous find, according to Hiltner. The researchers found that when confined as nanolayers, polyethylene ...

... immune system. A detailed description of the multi-trap nanophysiometer (MTN) and how it enabled the accidental discovery of paracrine signaling has been published online by the Lab on a Chip journal ...

Accidental discovery of the elusive “memristor” electronic component. It could soon replace both RAM and hard drives with devices 10x smaller. Cell phones might become sensors, protecting planet Earth ...

... near Goldfield, Nevada, with Hollingsworth in 2000 when he found the tracks. "This was truly an accidental discovery. We came on an outcrop that looked like it crossed the Precambrian-Cambrian ...

... , but there's no up and down motion. There's a thickness, but they're stuck." Until an accidental discovery during one of Gervais's earliest ultra-low temperature experiments in 2005, however, no ...

Accidental discovery of the elusive "memristor" electronic component. It could soon replace both RAM and hard drives with devices 10x smaller. Cell phones might become sensors, protecting planet Earth ...

... is linked to how densely cells are packed together." In what Mendell describes as an "accidental discovery," the team was studying contact inhibition: a phenomenon in which non-cancerous cells ...

The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering ...

... Science news package. Lawler's special news package on Chinese archaeology covers the accidental discovery and later excavation of Jinsha, an ancient site located near downtown Chengdu in Sichuan, ...

... , the studies show. In Littman's case, the findings by his group were something of an accidental discovery. They were studying T cells in the intestine and were getting some inconsistencies in their ...