Their study will be published online November 12 in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology: Fate of Silica Nanoparticles in Simulated Primary…
Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis—an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially…
Ensuring drug crystals are formed correctly is crucial to their efficacy and the efficiency of pharmaceutical manufacturers' operations. Using self-assembled…
NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of “smart buoys” to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.The buoy, located at the…
According to Stone’s paper, as the international community meets in Copenhagen in December to develop a new framework for responding to climate change,…
Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in…
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of…
If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect…
The kelp forest tripled in size from the peak of glaciation 20,000 years ago to about 7,500 years ago, then shrank by up to 70 percent to present day levels,…
Their work opens the way for a new understanding of possible paths to battle diabetes and diabetes-related health problems, which are on the rise all over the…
Hunter wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk. Biologists had assumed that the distinctive black-and-white color scheme was a marker saying,…
After a review of over 28,000 toxicological tests, researchers from the University of South Dakota, Yale University and Washington State University are…
The Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America…
They were first discovered in 2002 by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), who were using a robot submarine to explore Monterey…
Recently, University of Missouri researchers have developed a pupil response test that is 92.5 percent accurate in separating children with autism from those…
In the study, UAB researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how activity in the parts of the brain associated with fear, learning…