NIST’s quick test may speed antibiotic treatment and combat drug resistance
Credit: Burrus/NIST BOULDER, Colo.--Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a potential new tactic for...
Yale announces collaboration with WBCSD to improve corporate reporting
Recognizing the critical role that private capital flows will play in moving society toward a more sustainable future, Yale University...
A global perspective: Can humans mitigate risks associated with natural disasters?
Credit: World Scientific No corner of the world has escaped unscathed from climate change. The recent unprecedented increase in natural...
Our weight tells how we assess food
"It can be considered an instance of 'embodiment' in which our brain interacts with our body". This is the comment...
Seven exciting studies on membrane technologies explained
Credit: World Scientific With an increasing demand for clean energy due to environmental concerns, natural gas has emerged as a...
New gene delivery approach could allow long-term persistence in proliferating cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 22, 2017 -- Researchers added a scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR)...
700 years old saint myth has been proven (almost) true
Scientists confirm that the age and content of an old sack is in accordance with a medieval myth about Saint...
HSE scholars measure prestige of fashion models
Beginning models should choose independent magazines in order to be successful in the fashion industry, but they should also keep...
Crowning the ‘King of the Crops’: Sequencing the white Guinea yam genome
Credit: Creative Commons by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Licensed with CC BY NC 2.0 An international collaboration involving the...
Rainbow colors reveal cell history
(Technische Universität Dresden) Dr. Nikolay Ninov, group leader at the DFG research center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Cluster of Excellence...
Assembly of nanoparticles proceeds like a zipper
Credit: Dr. Nonappa and Ville Liljeström It has always been the Holy Grail of materials science to describe and control...
Leopoldina Annual Assembly focuses on genome editing issues
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina today opened its 2017 Annual Assembly in Halle (Saale), with this year's theme...
Tackling air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: University of Portsmouth The University of Portsmouth is helping to tackle air pollution and its harmful effects in Sub-Saharan...
A sustainable future powered by sea
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit Professor Tsumoru Shintake at the Okinawa...
Party discipline for jumping genes
Credit: Martin Kapun The genome of a typical organism consists of many genes that are stringed like beads. This alignment...
QUT creates Australia’s first lithium-ion battery
QUT researchers have produced Australia's first lithium-ion battery after establishing the country's only facility capable of such manufacturing. Key facts:...
Usher syndrome: Gene therapy restores hearing and balance
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Hearing loss, sometimes associated with other disorders such as balance defects, is the most common sensory...
Cornell’s Center for Materials Research’s NSF funding extended, increased
The Cornell Center for Materials Research - which through research and education is enhancing national capabilities in science, technology, engineering,...
First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing
Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds...
Multi-gene test predicts Alzheimer’s better than APOE E4 alone
A new test that combines the effects of more than two dozen genetic variants, most associated by themselves with only...
