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Power and Electrical Engineering

New Catalysts Enable Cheaper, More Efficient Hydrogen Production

Argonne chemist Michael Krumpelt and his colleagues in Argonne's Chemical Engineering Division used “single-site” catalysts based on ceria or lanthanum…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Researchers at UC-Santa Barbara have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have announced they have built the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser, a significant step toward combining…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Study HAPE: Tackling Mountain Illness Challenges

Experts at the University are studying an illness known as HAPE (high altitude pulmonary oedema), which causes fluid to build up in the lungs can and can occur…

Life & Chemistry

Clemson Scientists Enhance Fluorescent Molecules in Cells

Clemson University chemists have developed a method to dramatically improve the longevity of fluorescent nanoparticles that may someday help researchers track…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Pellets of power designed to deliver hydrogen for tomorrow's vehicles

Hydrogen may prove to be the fuel of the future in powering the effi cient, eco-friendly fuel cell vehicles of tomorrow. Developing a method to safely store,…

Life & Chemistry

Battling bitter coffee — chemists vs. main source of coffee bitterness

Research by others over the past few years has identified an estimated 25 to 30 compounds that could contribute to the perceived bitterness of coffee. But the…

Environmental Conservation

Crested Auklets’ Unique Anointment Enhances Mate Protection

University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Hector Douglas has found that, for crested auklets, chemistry has both amorous and practical applications. The birds…

Life & Chemistry

Broccoli Compound May Enhance Immune System, Study Finds

Veggie fans can already point to some cancer-fighting properties of 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM), a chemical produced from the compound indole-3-carbinol when…

Health & Medicine

Nottingham Scientist Explores Breast Cancer Cell Survival

The three year grant, worth over £140,000, forms part of over £4.2 million invested in research by Campaign in the last year.Dr Martin will study a group of…

Life & Chemistry

Cells’ Social Habits: Unlocking Disease-Fighting Innovations

As part of a new £18 million project spanning six countries, The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at The University of Manchester will…

Health & Medicine

Surgery for Severe Obesity: Life-Saving Results Revealed

The results are published today in The New England Journal of Medicine. “We show for the first time that surgery against obesity not only leads to long-term…

Physics & Astronomy

SMART-1 Reveals Moon’s Wrinkles and Weight Insights

The combination of high-resolution data from SMART-1’s AMIE micro-camera and data from the US Clementine mission is helping scientists determine the tectonics…

Information Technology

New Grid Software Enhances User Experience and Efficiency

In science and industry today, computing and data resources are often widely distributed across different systems, sites or even countries. To make effective…

Information Technology

Explore Hubble’s Stunning Images with Google Earth Sky

With Sky in Google Earth, you can travel across the vastness of the night sky, making tour stops at 125 of the most popular Hubble images. Though these…

Physics & Astronomy

Hinode Unveils Insights on Solar Flares and Coronal Heating

Highlights include new insights on the workings of solar flares and on the mechanism behind coronal heating.Hinode (Sunrise in Japanese) was launched to study…

Business and Finance

Dutch economists and psychologists probe consumers' emotions

Internationally renowned consumer behaviour and social psychology scholars will present their latest views at a conference to mark the occasion. Tiber's…

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