Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is an very common stomach disease that manifests as abdominal pain and discomfort, disturbed bowel movements, abdominal…
University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub sulfur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional…
In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope iron…
The method is also the first of its kind to be integrated with a building simulation tool. Factoring in the different ways in which buildings are used and the…
Be it a battery or a fuel cell, efficient electrodes are the be-all and end-all of every electrochemical cell. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of…
Funded with a total budget of EUR 55.6 M, StemBANCC intends to develop new therapies for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and other major diseases. The…
Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have published the whole genome sequence of bacteria associated with Jamaican sugarcane and Riesling grapevines…
But how can these invasive reeds be eradicated before they take over their environment if we don’t know where they are?Now we do know, thanks to scientists…
According to NBC News, over 3,500 people in Fiji went to emergency shelters. Today, Dec. 17, Evan is lashing Fiji, just days after battering Samoa where it…
On Tuesday, Dec. 11, the TRMM satellite saw Evan about 24 hours before the storm struck American Samoa, and the radar data at first seem incongruous for such a…
The scientists, working as part of a large international team coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), have identified several promising genetic…
Radiation exposure from computed tomography (CT) and other medical sources has drawn considerable media attention in recent years. Stories warning of the…
This applies to students at both private schools and public schools. The effects persist in upper secondary school and higher education. This is shown in a new…
By synthesizing a stable “antiaromatic” compound, as well as a never before seen intermediate version of that compound, chemists at The University of Texas at…
Their study, published in the Dec. 18 online edition of Molecular Cancer Research, is the first to link the enzyme PRSS3 to prostate cancer. “This molecule is…
Agriculture is increasingly vanishing from the Alps. Land that was cultivated for centuries is now being abandoned and scrubs are encroaching on it. This…