Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking…
Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences, and postdoctoral research associate Basant Patel propagated the new prion from a…
The compounds work against two notorious microbes: Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera; and E. coli 0157:H7, the food contaminant that each year in the U.S….
“Certain classes of explosives have unique thermal characteristics that help to identify explosive vapors in presence of other vapors,” says Thomas Thundat, a…
Commenting on the results, interventional cardiology specialist, Professor Franz Eberli from the University Hospital Zurich (Switzerland) and official…
The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S….
A team from Purdue and Northwestern universities analyzed the fault motion for eight years using global positioning system measurements and found that it is…
Should average global temperature increase by more than 4 degrees Celsius, one or several parts of the climate system could tip to a new state. Experts'…
Until recently, scientists provided fishery managers only such limited data as stock counts and catch estimates, said Charles Greene, Cornell professor of…
By silencing the gene, caspar, the researchers were able to block the development of the malaria-causing parasite in Anopheles gambiae, A. stephensi and A….
The lava composition indicates that a mantle plume—an upwelling of intense heat from near the core of the Earth—may be bubbling to life beneath the soil of the…
China Oilfield Services Limited is part of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), a leading provider of integrated oilfield services for the offshore…
“This has got to be a wake-up call for all of us who care about kids,” said Kevin M. Ryan, President of Covenant House. “Half of our kids are reporting…
Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by persistent infections from several of the human papillomaviruses (HPV) — a family of viruses that also…
The study was led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Vermont…
An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of…
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