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Materials Sciences

Research Improves Dry Lubricant Used in Machinery and Biomedical Devices

Nearly everyone is familiar with the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), otherwise known as Teflon, the brand name used by the chemical company DuPont. Famous for…

Technology Offerings

Antimicrobial Door Opening Device: A Smart Innovation

The present invention relates to a device for antimicrobial operation of doors or switches which consists of a bent, hooked piece at the distal end. It serves…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing High-Stress Components With New Metallic Alloy

The innovative idea is to add a tiny amount of B (and Zr) in ppm levels (200 – 2000 ppm by weight) for strengthening the grain boundaries in Co-Re alloys and…

Technology Offerings

Low-Energy Disintegration of Organic Materials Explained

A key issue for the utilization of organic materials is their disintegration and the associated release of valuable contents. Hence, an energy efficient direct…

Earth Sciences

Cracking the Ice Code

John Isbell is on a quest to coax that information from the geology of the southernmost portions of the Earth. It won’t be easy, because the last transition…

Life & Chemistry

In Early Earth, Iron Helped RNA Catalyze Electron Transfer

The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth. Because electron transfer, the moving…

Materials Sciences

Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills

Seshadri Ramkumar, lead author of the study and manager of the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health…

Studies and Analyses

Graphene Study Confirms 40-Year-Old Physics Prediction

Graphene Study Confirms 40-Year-Old Physics Prediction A team of researchers from Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Central…

Environmental Conservation

Ant Study Could Help Future Robot Teams Work Underground

By studying fire ants in the laboratory using video tracking equipment and X-ray computed tomography, researchers have uncovered fundamental principles of…

Studies and Analyses

New era of fisheries policy needed to secure nutrition for millions

Securing the critical contribution of wild fish stocks to food and nutrition security in the developing world depends on better governance and management of…

Health & Medicine

Answers to Sleep Disorder and new paradigm for treatment and mechanism of neurodegenerative disease

ATAXIN-2 is a protein encoded by the ATXN2 gene conserved among different animal species. Mutations in human ATAXIN-2 gene have been implicated in…

Physics & Astronomy

Uranus and Neptune’s Upper Atmosphere Storms Explained

Similar to the giant gas planets Jupiter and Saturn, their smaller cousins, Uranus and Neptune, have long been known to harbor swirling clouds and violent…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Build Resistance to Last-Line Antibiotic and Immune Defenses

Cross-resistance to colistin and host antimicrobials LL-37 and lysozyme, which help defend the body against bacterial attack, could mean that patients with…

Life & Chemistry

'Whodunnit' of Irish potato famine solved

It is the first time scientists have decoded the genome of a plant pathogen and its plant host from dried herbarium samples. This opens up a new area of…

Studies and Analyses

Early-Life Air Pollution Exposure Tied to Hyperactivity Risks

The research is detailed in a study being published Tuesday, May 21, in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the…

Health & Medicine

Child Maltreatment Linked to Higher Adult Obesity Risk

The findings come from the combined analysis of data from 190,285 individuals from 41 studies worldwide, published this week in Molecular Psychiatry.Severe…

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