More than half of all human proteins, as well as many important pharmaceutical agents, are glycoproteins, which means that they contain sugar components. In…
The conference is hosted by the Appalachian State University Energy Center, the Charlotte Research Institute at UNC Charlotte and the Hydrogen Economy Action…
However, according to John Stanton, Ph.D., chair of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, the “frills” that come with fast food or…
NASA is inviting the public to vote for one of six candidate astronomical objects for Hubble to observe in honor of the International Year of Astronomy. The…
The team will use sophisticated mathematical techniques to fill information gaps between the satellite's direct measurements, the closest of which will be 93…
That is a significant amount of carbon, the process can be accomplished with existing technology and it can be done year after year, according to Stuart…
During its career, the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus has banked its success on a rather unusual strategy: its limitations.Its inability to infect animals…
In the study, Kyung Myung and colleagues explain that furanocoumarins (FCs) — chemicals found in grapefruit and some other citrus — block a key enzyme critical…
Their study, the first to report on how different pH levels may affect the safety of QDs, appears in the Jan.15 issue of ACS’ Environmental Science &…
It involves gathering billions of tons of cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop residue from farm fields, bailing it, shipping the material to seaports, and…
A new brain-imaging study is shedding light on what it means to “get lost” in a good book — suggesting that readers create vivid mental simulations of the…
You don't have to visit the Galapagos Islands to see evolution in action. Sometimes, all you have to do is hatch some eggs.Layered in the sediments of rivers…
Anyone who has ever battled a stuck zipper knows it's a good idea to see what's stuck, where and how badly — and then to pull hard.A Cornell research team's…
UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering professor Stojan Radic and his team have demonstrated the first real-time sampling of a 320 Gigabits per…
The study — appearing online this week (Jan. 26-31) ahead of regular publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — however, did find…
The Delmarva Peninsula, flanking the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is home to some 600 million chickens. The resulting poultry manure and some of the…
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