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Novel alkaline hydrogel advances skin wound care
Scientists, including an undergraduate student, develop a novel method to produce an alkaline hydrogel that could be applied to healing ...
Atmospheric scientists study fires to resolve ice question in climate models
Credit: Gregory Schill When fossil fuel or biomass burns, soot - also known as black carbon - fills the air. ...
Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 with a lean rare earth content exhibits superb magnetism
Compound may magnetically outperform neodymium magnetsCredit: NIMS NIMS and Tohoku Gakuin University have developed a boron-doped anisotropic Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 thin film ...
Changing ties that naturally bind
How are information, disease, and social evolution linked?Credit: Kyoto University/Andrew MacIntosh Changing ties that naturally bind How are information, disease, ...
Tailored hardening of ZrCuAl bulk metallic glass induced by 2D gradient rejuvenation
Credit: Tohoku University A team at Tohoku University have perfected a new heat treatment technique with rapid heating and asymmetrical ...
Immune protein IL-17A responsible for lethal side effects of gastric cancer
Researchers from Kanazawa University find that as gastric cancer spreads throughout the peritoneal cavity, inflammatory protein IL-17A induces tissue fibrosis, ...
NTU Singapore scientists use fruit peel to turn old batteries into new
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a novel method of using fruit ...
$20 million NSF grant for new artificial intelligence institute for molecule synthesis
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer A team led by Steven L. Miller Chair professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the ...
UC Davis to lead new artificial intelligence institute for next generation food systems
Credit: UC Davis The University of California, Davis, has been awarded $20 million as part of a multi-institutional collaboration to ...
Novotech the Asia-Pacific CRO – ‘2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company of the year’
Novotech, the largest biotech specialist CRO in the Asia-Pacific region, was awarded the '2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company ...
Manolis Kogevinas wins John Goldsmith Award
ISGlobal researcher receives the highest honour in the field of Environmental Epidemiology for his vital contributions to public healthCredit: Barcelona ...
Sandwich catalysts offer higher activity and durability
Credit: In Su Lee (POSTECH) Sandwich is the food concocted by the 18th-ceuntry nobles to play card games uninterrupted. Meat ...
UT Austin selected as home of National AI Institute focused on machine learning
Credit: Vivian Abagiu/University of Texas at Austin. The National Science Foundation has selected The University of Texas at Austin to ...
Oncotarget: Paradox breaker BRAF inhibitors in BRAF mutant colorectal cancer
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 34 features Figure 1, "BRAF inhibitor-induced changes in cell viability," by Pickles, et which reported that ...
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in untreated wastewater from Louisiana
Credit: Masaaki Kitajima/Biorender A group of scientists have detected genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater samples collected in April ...
Domesticated chickens have smaller brains
Credit: Per Jensen Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could ...
New device can measure toxic lead within minutes
Researchers create portable lab-on-a-chip that could detect many contaminantsCredit: Azam Gholizadeh Rutgers researchers have created a miniature device for measuring ...
Seizures during menstrual cycle linked to drug-resistant epilepsy
Study finds surprising connection in some women with genetic generalized epilepsyCredit: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health ...
Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change
New study suggests fewer resources are depleting than previously estimated, but authors urge caution in unsustainable extraction levelsCredit: Mohammed Shamshudda/Richard ...
