People with fat around their abdominal area are at greater risk of developing hypertension when compared to those with similar body mass index but fat…
Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity: The car-service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion, and even as…
Within minutes after birth, every child in the U.S. undergoes a battery of tests designed to diagnose a host of conditions, including sickle cell disease….
What happens after a well is drilled, fitted with a hand pump, and a community celebrates having access to clean water for the first time? Half of them break…
Growing public support for marijuana legalization in the U.S. has led to public debate about whether marijuana is “safer” than other substances, such as…
A newly developed kite system allows to alter the line length while kite surfing by around 80% of the line length. This enables new kitesurf scenarios. Due to limited shore space kitesurfer may start with short lines and bring them full length later on the water. Furthermore, while surfing, the line length can be adjusted to wind conditions. After landing, the lines can be drawn in directly avoiding winding in and tangling of leashes.
Raman marker as a novel labeling reagent for the selective detection of biomolecules. Their use provides three key benefits: simultaneous detection of many different target molecules, high sensitivity and quantification of the detected biomolecules
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today the successful release of 17 juvenile critically endangered Siamese crocodiles into a protected wetland in…
Just two years ago, with the advent of a technique called direct measurement, scientists discovered they could reliably determine a system’s wave function by…
The Missouri S&T researchers describe their method in a paper published Thursday (Aug. 28, 2014) on the website of the journal ACS Nano. The researchers’…
The coupling of molecular building blocks nearly as easy as “snapping” them together can be realized by means of the “click chemistry” tool kit. American…
The exchange of chemical signals between organisms is considered the oldest form of communication. Acting as messenger molecules, pheromones regulate social…
Fragile X syndrome is caused by a defect in a gene on the X chromosome called fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1). Around 1 in 230 women and 1 in 360 men…
As nocturnal animals, bats are perfectly adapted to a life without light. They emit echolocation sounds and use the delay between the reflected echoes to…
In the Journal of Cell Biology, two researchers are issuing a call to investigators from various backgrounds, from biophysics to cell biology, to focus their…
Making something new is never easy. Scientists constantly theorize about new materials, but when the material is manufactured it doesn’t always work as…
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