A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed the first “theranostic” agent for the treatment of acute…
Their new article on the value of eating berry fruits appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.In the article, Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Ph.D.,…
Randolph E. Kirchain, Ph.D., and colleagues explain that there has been long-standing concern about a secure supply of the so-called rare earth elements, 17…
Together with Scottish colleagues scientists around Prof. Dr. Peter Bayer and Dr. Anja Matena at the University Duisburg-Essen (UDE) have now seen through the…
In the story, C&EN Associate Editor Lauren K. Wolf points out that most people in the 1960s believed autism resulted from a lack of maternal warmth and…
A Washington State University toxicologist has found that three commonly used herbicides can dramatically reduce butterfly populations.The research was aimed…
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using…
Many of the communication tools of today rely on the function of light or, more specifically, on applying information to a light wave. Up until now, studies on…
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle thought responsible for giving mass to matter, a critical but still unproven component of the long-standing Standard…
An Akron researcher is designing computer prediction models to test potential new docking seals that will better preserve breathable cabin air for astronauts…
Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV. In a presentation…
The first is traveling faster than 1300 miles per second; the second more than 1100 miles per second. NASA's models predict that the CMEs will impact both…
Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly, this upper atmosphere jet stream makes a perfect target for a particular kind of…
A novel ICP-AlOx / SiNy double layer at the rear side of the solar cell enables the improvement without applying a “selective emitter”. 20.1% is one of the…
These are some of the questions that the new Center of Integrated Dairy Research (Zentrum für Integrierte Milchwirtschaftliche Forschung) or “CIDRe” for short…
The dark, sunlight-absorbing surfaces of some New York City roofs reached 170 degrees Fahrenheit on July 22, 2011, a day that set a city record for electricity…