Chemistry
Vest helps athletes keep their cool
A new cooling vest for sports athletes may ensure everyone can compete safely in sweltering summer conditions such as the...
Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Scientific Society’s journal moves to high-tech ARPHA platform
The established Pharmacia demonstrates a complete makeover in its new issue after signing with scientific publisher and technology provider Pensoft...
A new tool makes it possible to adapt treatment for patients with cardiogenic shock
Credit: © CRG 2019. All rights reserved. Cardiogenic shock is a possible complication of serious heart attack involving an associated...
Drones for early detection of forest fires
The UC3M's researchers coordinating the scientific part of the project, Fernando García y Abdulla al-Kaff, from the Department of Systems...
Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, NIH-led mouse study shows
Complement system appears to be double-edged sword depending on the eye diseaseCredit: Wai Wong, M.D., Ph.D. A new study shows...
Innovative technique uses sensory nanoparticles to detect disease
Building on new insights about nanoparticles, investigators develop a test for early detection of diseases, including different types of cancerCredit:...
Harvard chemists’ breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent
'Unprecedented achievement' provides sufficient quantities of a fully synthetic halichondrin molecule for clinical trials now underway It's a feat three...
From surfer shorts to surgical drapes
New framework to reduce harmful chemicals like PFAS added to consumer goods, phase out non-essentials Human exposure to unnecessary and...
‘Power shift’ needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says
"Power shift" needed to improve gender balance in energy research, report says Women still face significant barriers in forging successful...
Using waves to move droplets
Credit: De Jong et al., Sci. Adv. 2019;5: eaaw0914 Self-cleaning surfaces and laboratories on a chip become even more efficient...
Electron (or ‘hole’) pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity
Emergence of unusual metallic state supports role of 'charge stripes' in formation of charge-carrier pairs essential to resistance-free flow of...
Energy department to invest $32 million in computer design of materials
Researchers to take advantage of DOE's advanced supercomputers The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it will invest $32 million...
Satellite observations improve earthquake monitoring, response
Credit: Image courtesy of the UI Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Researchers at the University of Iowa and the...
Hubble sets sights on an explosive galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Crenshaw and O. Fox When massive stars die at the end of their short lives,...
A new paradigm of material identification based on graph theory
Credit: Science China Press Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) and National Materials Genome Project have been launched by American and Chinese...
American Physical Society announces awardees of the Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards
The awards, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, hope to stimulate ideas on innovative ways in which emerging...
Pew funds 22 scientists to pursue innovative biomedical research
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced 22 early-career researchers who have been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in...
Nobel physics laureate Gerard Mourou awarded honorary doctorate at Duesseldorf University
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesCredit: HHU / Wilfried Meyer "Gerard Mourou has accrued great merit in our faculty through...
Electron beam strengthens recyclable nanocomposite
Credit: Kanazawa University Polymers reinforced with carbon fibers combine strength and low weight. They also boast significant green credentials as...
Exciting plant vacuoles
Credit: Dawid Jaslan / University of Würzburg Many plant processes are not different from humans: Cells and tissues in grain...
