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Revamped TES Portal: Safely Handle Dangerous Goods Today

In order to increase the safety of these transports, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) provides a lot of information about this topic…

Life & Chemistry

Metallic molecules to nanotubes: Spread out!

A lab at Rice University has stepped forward with an efficient method to disperse nanotubes in a way that preserves their unique properties — and adds more. The new technique allows inorganic metal complexes with different functionalities to remain in close contact with single-walled carbon nanotubes while keeping them separated in a solution. …

Life & Chemistry

Researcher lists more than 4,000 components of blood chemistry

“Right now a medical doctor analyzing the blood of an ailing patient looks at something like 10 to 20 chemicals,” said U of A biochemist David Wishart. “We’ve…

Health & Medicine

Newborn Heart Muscle Can Grow Back by Itself

Researchers, working with mice, found that a portion of the heart removed during the first week after birth grew back wholly and correctly – as if nothing had…

Life & Chemistry

Bees’ Scent Learning: Finding Nectar-Rich Flowers Efficiently

How successful bees are in their search for food depends largely on how well they can, based on their odors, detect nectar-rich flowers from a distance and…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover HIV Vaccine Alters Virus Genetics

An AIDS vaccine tested in people, but found to be ineffective, influenced the genetic makeup of the virus that slipped past. The findings suggest new ideas for…

Medical Engineering

Stretchable Balloon Electronics Transform Cardiac Medicine

A team of materials scientists, mechanical and electrical engineers, and physicians has successfully integrated stretchable electronics technology with…

Life & Chemistry

Iowa State Researcher Explores Green Catalysts for Sustainability

Woo, an Iowa State University professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has studied catalysts and the…

Life & Chemistry

Flipping a Switch on Neuron Activity

All our daily activities, from driving to work to solving a crossword puzzle, depend on signals carried along the body’s vast network of neurons. Propagation…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Probe the Role of Motor Protein in Hearing Loss

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have now identified the mechanism by which a single amino acid change can disrupt the normal…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights in Battling Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

The bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a successful organism that lives in an estimated one third of the world’s population. But only about five percent…

Health & Medicine

Gene Variant Linked to Chronic Kidney Disease Risk

The research team, known as the CKDGen Consortium, examined data from several genome-wide association studies to identify missense variant (I2984V) in the CUBN…

Business and Finance

Gas Prices Rise: Impact on Grocery Retailers Revealed

A University of Alberta researcher says grocery retailers need to take heed that a jump at the pumps will be a blow to their bottom line. Alberta School of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Improves Modeling of Electrons’ Motions

Although in principle quantum mechanics can describe the properties of molecules and materials in which the electrons’ motions are strongly correlated, in…

Life & Chemistry

How Slime Mold Organizes: Insights Into Cellular Innovation

The so-called cellular slime mold, a unicellular organism that may transition into a multicellular organism under stress, has just been found to have a tissue…

Physics & Astronomy

Stunning Image Reveals Drama of Starbirth in NGC 6729

The star-forming region NGC 6729 is part of one of the closest stellar nurseries to the Earth and hence one of the best studied. This new image from ESO’s Very…

Life & Chemistry

Vitamin E: How It Protects Your Body from Oxidative Damage

When reactive oxygen species (ROS) hit the body, vitamin E helps to prevent damage to tissues and cells by acting as an antioxidant. The health benefits of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Princeton engineers make breakthrough in ultra-sensitive sensor technology

The sensor, which is the most sensitive of its kind to date, relies on a completely new architecture and fabrication technique developed by the Princeton…

Life & Chemistry

Human Virus Linked to Endangered Mountain Gorilla Deaths

For the first time, a virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, reports a team of researchers in…

Materials Sciences

TU Delft identifies huge potential of nanocrystals in fuel cells

Electrolyte The researchers at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft were concentrating their efforts on improving electrolyte materials. This is the…

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