Month: October 2019

Credit: Tomi Miettinen An easy-to-use electrode set can assess sleep bruxism severity as well as a conventional polysomnography, a new ...

Can the design of a building improve the creative output of its occupants?

New study published in Creativity Research Journal shows Maharishi Vastu architecture increased workplace creativityCredit: Ron Blunt A ground-breaking study published ...

Nobel Laureate Prof. John B. Goodenough discusses lithium-ion batteries in Science China Chemistry

Credit: (a) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (b)Chemical Reviews, The American Chemical Society. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Nitrogen-embedded polycyclic compound with strong antiaromaticity and stability

University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes

Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been ...

Paving a way to achieve unexplored semiconductor nanostructures

Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growthCredit: Ehime University Nanowire is a ...

A compound effective to chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells identified

Credit: Hokkaido University A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs ...

Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding

Credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht When students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) found a dead mule deer on campus, ...

Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...

‘Flamenco dancing’ molecule could lead to better-protecting sunscreen

Credit: created by Dr Michael Horbury Molecule that protects plants from overexposure to light repurposed as a UV filter for ...

Energy flow in the nano range

Credit: Images: Björn Kriete (l.) / Stefan Mueller (r.) Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy ...

Health care intervention: Treating high-need, high-cost patients

Study found focusing on patients' values instead of problems offered better resultsCredit: University of Houston In crisis and with nowhere ...

A new approach to reconstructing protein evolution

UMass Amherst, University of Virginia scientists propose new, more focused methodCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - There are an estimated ...

New study uncovers ‘magnetic’ memory of European glass eels

Researchers find first evidence of a fish capable of forming and retaining a magnetic memory of water currentsCredit: Alessandro Cresci ...

Researcher invents an easy-to-use technique to measure the hydrophobicity of micro- and nanoparticle

Credit: Copyright American Chemical Society The scientific and industrial communities who work with micro- and nanoparticles continue to labor with ...

Cod or haddock? UMass Amherst study looks at ‘name bias’ and fisheries sustainability

Grad student aims to promote tasty alternatives to overfished codCredit: UMass Amherst Could you taste the difference between cod and ...

When added to gene therapy, plant-based compound may enable faster, more effective treatments

Scripps Research team finds that a nontoxic molecule closely related to resveratrol can overcome barriers to delivering gene therapy into ...

First report of cotton blue disease in the United States

Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...

Training social workers in fight against opioids

$1.3 million federal grant helps UTA offer students training in addiction treatmentCredit: Elizabeth Couch, The University of Texas at Arlington ...

Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States