Iran has a water problem. The reserves in many groundwater basins there have been severely depleted. For the last forty years, the country has invested a lot…
Zinc oxide (ZnO) has long been recognized as an effective sunscreen agent. However, there have been calls for sunscreens containing ZnO nanoparticles to be…
Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth's energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two types of…
Cancer immunotherapy — efforts to better arm a patient's own immune system to attack tumors — has shown great potential for treating some cancers. Yet…
In general, wind shear is a measure of how the speed and direction of winds change with altitude. Winds at different levels of the atmosphere pushed against…
When a dense sheet of electrons is accelerated to almost the speed of light, it acts as a reflective surface. Such a ‘plasma mirror’ can be used to manipulate…
In the event that large-scale machines or plants are already in operation, defects or defectively assembled components may result in malfunction of machines…
Nowadays energy conversion in lighting and optoelectronic devices requires the use of rare earth oxides.
Researchers studying Alzheimer's disease have created an approach to classify patients with Alzheimer's disease, a finding that may open the door for…
Rice is a staple food crop of 20 percent of the world's population. It's also grown on every continent except Antarctica.
Researchers from Intel Corp. and the University of California, Berkeley, are looking beyond current transistor technology and preparing the way for a new type…
There are many organizations monitoring endangered species such as elephants and tigers, but what about the millions of other species on the planet — ones…
It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research from the Salk Institute reveals that the two identify novel…
Researchers led by Dr Devesh Mistry from the University of Leeds discovered a new non-porous material that has unique and inherent “auxetic” stretching…
Microorganisms are used in many industrial applications, including production of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and foods (e.g., ethanol, acetate,…
Crops worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to pandemics, as diseases hitch rides on global flows of people and goods, hopping from continent to continent….
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