Ammonia is a useful substance that can be employed in the production of fertilizers and artificial chemicals, and even as a clean-energy carrier (in the form…
In the article “Spatial confinement tuning of quenched disorder effects and enhanced magnetoresistance in manganite nanowires” published in SCIENCE CHINA…
University of South Florida geoscientists have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and…
Researchers are now getting closer to this goal with a type of bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is notorious for infecting patients with the lung…
A research collaboration between Rice University and the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University has found that old newspapers can be…
One of the most significant of these challenges has to do with mass, as even the most current electric vehicle batteries and supercapacitors are incredibly…
The mucosal surfaces are important for protection of tissues and homeostasis, but often targeted by disease-causing bacteria. Phages have been suggested to…
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Manchester, has developed a metal-organic framework, or MOF, material that provides a selective,…
Leishmania are single-cell parasites transmitted by sandflies. They cause leishmaniasis, an infection that occurs above all in tropical areas, the…
They play a leading role not only in muscle cells. Actin filaments are one of the most abundant proteins in all mammalian cells. The filigree structures form…
Wound healing events in mucous tissues during early infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, guard some primate species against developing AIDS, a…
Researchers at Purdue University have engineered ceramic “nanotubes” that behave as thermal antennas, offering control over the spectrum and direction of…
A study out of the University of Arkansas investigated whether bulbs can flower and persist in warm-season lawns while providing nutrition for pollinating…
Strange metals make interesting bedfellows for a phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity, which allows materials to carry electricity with zero…
Gas bubbles trapped in the cores — which are the oldest yet recovered — contain pristine samples of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that serve as…
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient – this is the goal that developers of electronic devices have been working towards for years. In order to be able to…