Targeting individual atoms
Credit: ETH Zurich / Jan Rhensius, Kristian Cujia Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy - NMR spectroscopy for short - is one...
Carnegie Mellon physicist Rachel Mandelbaum named 2019 Simons Investigator
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University physicist Rachel Mandelbaum has been named a 2019 Simons Investigator by the Simons...
Resonance-enhanced tunneling induces F+H2 reaction in interstellar clouds
Credit: T. A. Rector & B. A. Wolpa, NOAO, AURA Scientists from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of...
A solarium for hens? How to increase the vitamin D content of eggs
Many people suffer from a vitamin D deficiency. This can result in brittle bones and an increased risk of respiratory...
Chemists discover structure of glucagon fibrils
Study may be a step toward shelf-stable versions of the hormone, which is used to control diabetes. Patients with type...
Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults
Credit: Georgia Tech A new study has found that variability in night-to-night sleep time and reduced sleep quality adversely affect...
Researchers unveil how soft materials react to deformation at molecular level
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Before designing the next generation of soft materials, researchers must first...
Language barriers effect parents’ participation in neonatal care
Credit: Photo: Oskar Palmerot A warm smile and a caring hand on the shoulder are not enough to overcome the...
Novel Chinese nanogenerator takes cue from electric eels
Credit: TAN Puchuan Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Helping the body’s ability to grow bone
Credit: University of Portsmouth For the first time, scientists have been able to study how well synthetic bone grafts stand...
Award for Nicolas Plumeré
ChemistryCredit: RUB, Kramer Bochum-based chemist Professor Nicolas Plumeré has been awarded the Luigi Galvani Prize by the Bioelectrochemical Society. The...
Study investigates role of family doctors in advanced therapies
Credit: University of Granada A recent study conducted jointly by the Tissue Engineering Research Group of the Department of Histology...
How to bend waves to arrive at the right place
Waves do not always spread uniformly into all directions, but can form a remarkable 'branched flow'. At TU Wien (Vienna)...
Popular strategy for raising pregnancy rates in IVF fails to deliver improvement in large trial
Success rates after freezing all embryos for later transfer no better than with fresh transfers Vienna, 24 June 2019: The...
‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals
New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute BELLEVUE,...
Hydrogel offers double punch against orthopedic bone infections
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Surgery prompted by automobile accidents, combat wounds, cancer treatment and other conditions can lead to...
A wearable vibration sensor for accurate voice recognition
The research group led by Professor Kilwon Cho and Professor Yoonyoung Chung developed a skin-attachable vibration sensor for voice recognitionCredit:...
Non-invasive view into the heart
Study shows: MRI on par with cardiac catheterizationCredit: Eike Nagel, Goethe University For patients with chest pain and presumably stable...
Shedding light on rhodopsin dynamics in the retina
Credit: Kobe University Photoreceptor cells in our eyes can adjust to both weak and strong light levels, but we still...
Early biomarker found for degenerative neurologic disease
PET imaging effective in detecting tau deposits in progressive supranuclear palsyCredit: Brendel M, Barthel H, Van Eimeren T, et al....
