Chemistry
Painless skin patch collects fluid for diagnostic testing
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b00258 Although blood contains a wealth of potential biomarkers of disease, it can...
Researchers discover what makes deep-sea dragonfish teeth transparent
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A team of researchers led by the University of California San...
US struggles to keep up as hemp industry grows
U.S. hemp production is soaring, but government oversight hasn't kept up, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News...
Verifying ‘organic’ foods
Organic foods are increasingly popular -- and pricey. Organic fruits and vegetables are grown without synthetic pesticides, and because of...
Making a splash is all in the angle
Credit: Queen Mary University of London Making a splash depends on the angle of a liquid as it hits and...
Metal foam stops .50 caliber rounds as well as steel — at less than half the weight
Researchers have demonstrated that vehicle armor using composite metal foam (CMF) can stop ball and armor-piercing .50 caliber rounds as...
Why deep-sea dragonfish have transparent teeth
Credit: Marc Meyers Off the coast of San Diego, 500 meters under the sea, pencil-sized sea monsters grin pitch-black smiles...
As hot as the sun’s interior
Physicists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) create plasma for the first time using nanowires and long-wavelength ultrashort pulse laserCredit:...
New study sheds light on how blood vessel damage from high glucose concentrations unfolds
Scientists from University of Warwick modelled effects of high blood glucose on cells that line blood vessels Study improves understanding...
Brighter possibilities for treating blindness
Review published in the 10th anniversary series of science Translational Medicine Advances in preclinical research are now being translated into...
No assumptions needed to simulate petroleum reservoirs
Hydrocarbons trapped within porous media are easier to model with computer simulations than researchers previously assumed -- a discovery that...
M. Madan Babu and Paola Picotti honored with EMBO Gold Medal
Heidelberg, 5 June 2019 - The EMBO Gold Medal 2019 has been awarded to two systems biologists, M. Madan Babu...
Scientists discover how hepatitis C ‘ghosts’ our immune system
Credit: Nexu Science Communication. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how the highly infectious and sometimes deadly Hepatitis C...
Columbia University and Deerfield Management launch Hudson Heights Innovations
Deerfield commits up to $130 million to accelerate drug discovery at Columbia (New York, NY, June 5, 2019)--Columbia University and...
DNA nanorobots target HER2-positive breast cancer cells
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01320 According to the Mayo Clinic, about 20% of breast cancers make abnormally...
Estimating microplastic consumption
Credit: Monique Raap, University of Victoria Since the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, the versatile polymers have...
How deep-ocean vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms
Stanford study shows how hydrothermal vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms -- and possible hotspots for carbon storage Researchers at Stanford...
New DOE program connects fusion companies with national labs, taps ORNL to lead
Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for...
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life
University of Lincoln research looks at the possibility of moons outside our solar system causing gaps in the rings of...
UV light may illuminate improvements for next generation electronic devices
Credit: Golap Kalita, Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimal semiconductors,...