PPPL awarded total of $4 million to simplify design and construction of stellarators
Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has ...
Pesticide deadly to bees now easily detected in honey
Credit: Janusz Pawliszyn A common insecticide that is a major hazard for honeybees is now effectively detected in honey thanks ...
Simple new testing method aims to improve time-release drugs
Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolutionCredit: William Grover When you take a time-release drug, you count ...
Can we harness a plant’s ability to synthesize medicinal compounds?
Knowledge could guide development of sustainable production methods for plant-based medicinesCredit: From Flora De Filipinas by Francisco Manuel Blanco in ...
Team uses copper to image Alzheimer’s aggregates in the brain
Credit: Photo courtesy Hong-Jun Cho CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A proof-of-concept study conducted in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease offers ...
Novel chemical process a first step to making nuclear fuel with fire
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., November 24, 2020 -- Developing safe and sustainable fuels for nuclear energy ...
Tracking COVID-19 trends in hard-hit states
Credit: Nicholas Walker, LSU Currently, there are over 10 million confirmed cases and more than 240,000 casualties attributed to COVID-19 ...
Commonly used antibiotic shows promise for combating Zika infections
NIH preclinical study suggests FDA-approved tetracycline-based antibiotics may slow infection and reduce neurological problemsCredit: Courtesy of Nath lab NIH/NINDS. In ...
William Reznikoff, other MBL affiliates are named fellows of the AAAS
Credit: University of Chicago News Office WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- William S. Reznikoff, senior research scholar at the Marine Biological ...
NSF awards ou faculty member $2 million research and innovation grant
Young researcher to explore advancement of polymer recycling technologies in hopes of sending less multi-layer plastics to landfillsCredit: OU Photographer ...
Exploring blended materials along compositional gradients
A new platform for rapidly creating and characterizing blends of polymers, nanoparticles, and other materials could significantly accelerate material developmentCredit: ...
Taking a shine to polymers: Fluorescent molecule betrays the breakdown of polymer materials
Credit: Tokyo Tech Nylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC - these are all examples of man-made polymers - long chains of ...
Animal-free method predicts nanoparticle toxicity for safer industrial materials
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Our lungs are exposed to a multitude of hazardous airborne particles on a daily basis. Nanoparticles, ...
Stable catalysts for new energy
Crucial new technologies such as hydrogen production or carbon capture require new catalysts. Experiments show: It's not just the material ...
Lung-on-chip provides new insight on body’s response to early tuberculosis infection
Findings reveal the early events that take place during tuberculosis infection, and provide a model for future research into respiratory ...
Predi-COVID preliminary results
The Luxembourgish cohort study shows encouraging participation rates and sees its protocol published in international peer-reviewed journalCredit: @LIH The study ...
Salk Professors Susan Kaech and Alan Saghatelian named 2020 AAAS Fellows
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 24, 2020) Salk Professors Susan Kaech and Alan Saghatelian have been named 2020 Fellows of ...
AAAS announces leading scientists elected as 2020 fellows (contd.)
Credit: Courtesy of AAAS For Part 1 of this announcement, click here. SECTION ON GENERAL INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ...
Miniscule robots of metal and plastic
Credit: (Visualisations: Alcântara et al. Nature Communications 2020) Robots so tiny that they can manoeuvre through our blood vessels and ...
Creating higher energy density lithium-ion batteries for renewable energy applications
Improving lithium-ion battery performance, cell lifetime with graphene-coated nickel, cobalt, aluminum nanoparticle cathodesCredit: Jin-Myoung Lim and Norman S. Luu, Northwestern ...
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