All News

Life & Chemistry

Tokyo Tech researchers produce new photoactive micelles

A new form of micelle, which is composed of detergents with bent aromatic panels, has been created by Michito Yoshizawa and his colleagues at Tokyo Institute…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery of Sexual Mating in Candida albicans Infections

The finding, published online by Nature January 30, represents an important breakthrough in understanding how this pathogen has been shaped by evolution, which…

Health & Medicine

New Device Captures Particulates and Eliminates Pathogens

“When you have a cell affected by UV radiation, you either want to repair it or kill it so that it cannot go on to cause cancer. We show that silibinin does…

Life & Chemistry

UNC scientists unveil a superbug’s secret to antibiotic resistance

Now, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have not only identified the mechanism by which vancomycin resistance spreads from one…

Health & Medicine

Binge Drinking Linked to Higher Type 2 Diabetes Risk

The results are published in the January 30 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.”Insulin resistance has emerged as a key metabolic defect…

Awards Funding

Prof. Ferenc Krausz Wins 2013 King Faisal Prize for Science

Since 1978, this award has annually been given to scientists for outstanding achievements in five categories by the King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh (Saudi…

Health & Medicine

Mount Sinai Launches Trial for Chronic Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

Mount Sinai has the largest Sarcoidosis Service in the world and is one of only two institutions in the country participating in the trial; the other is the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Semiconductor Breakthrough Boosts Integrated Circuit Battery Life

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University have demonstrated that use of new…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Image Reveals Severe Weather System Over Eastern U.S.

An image released from NASA using data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite provides a stunning look at the powerful system that brings a return to winter weather in…

Life & Chemistry

Microbes – possible hitchhikers to space?

Bacteria are ubiquitous and some of them are real survival specialists – a property, which is particularly challenging for space missions. The spacecraft that…

Event News

Sustainable Building Restoration: Call for Papers in Shanghai

Following the successful conference in 2008, we will hold the second session of the conference in Shanghai. We hereby invite experts and scholars in related…

Earth Sciences

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite Sees Powerful Cyclone Felleng

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a night-time image of Cyclone Felleng when it was located…

Physics & Astronomy

Rutgers Professors Discover New Symmetry in Quantum Materials

Two Rutgers physics professors have proposed an explanation for a new type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with uranium – a theory that may…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Nature: New Fuel Innovation from Bacteria

The team, led by Prince­ton chem­istry pro­fes­sor Annabella Sel­l­oni, takes inspi­ra­tion from bac­te­ria that make hydro­gen from water using enzymes called…

Health & Medicine

Influenza Particles: New Insights on Patient Emissions

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, the findings raise the possibility that current influenza infection control recommendations may not always be…

Social Sciences

Gen X Social Networking: Balancing Online and In-Person Connections

In a typical month, adults in their late 30s report that they engaged in about 75 face-to-face contacts or conversations, compared to about 74 electronic…

Feedback