Chemistry
Small RNA Symposium 2019
The registration fee is $100 and includes lodging for the nights of April 3-5 and meals at the CSU Todos...
Four Pitt engineering faculty capture more than $2 million in total 2019 NSF CAREER awards
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (March 28, 2019) ... Four faculty members from the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School...
Shrimp claw inspires new method of underwater plasma generation
Claw can produce jets of plasma reaching over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit Texas A&M University researchers are looking to nature for...
Ferromagnetic nanoparticle systems show promise for ultrahigh-speed spintronics
Spintronics may end up using ferromagnetic nanoparticle systems with terahertz pulses for high-speed magnetization switching.Credit: Ohya Laboratory WASHINGTON, D.C., March...
Rhine-Main Universities undertake research into transport processes in the tropopause
RMU Initiative Funding for Research to finance joint meteorology and climate science project of the Rhine-Main UniversitiesCredit: photo/©: Peter Hoor...
Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apart
Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory) A small asteroid...
Biomedical engineers grow cardiac patches to help people recover from heart attacks
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech A team led by Feng Zhao, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Technological University, recently...
Thomas Elsaesser receives an ERC Advanced Grant
Electric Interactions and Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of BiomoleculesCredit: MBI/Ralf Guenther For the second time, an ERC Advanced Grant has been...
In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass extinction
Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Roughly 430 million years ago, during the Earth's Silurian Period, global oceans were experiencing...
Shape shifting mirror opens a vista for the future
Japanese researchers develop a glue-free mirror that can be used in vacuum chambersCredit: JTEC Corporation A team of researchers from...
Turbocharging the switch to efficient engines
Credit: © 2019 Eshan Singh A combustion problem that has troubled engine manufacturers since the industry began still plagues the...
European Lung Cancer Congress 2019: A collaborative effort to fight lung cancer
European Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC 2019), 10-13 April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland Lugano, Switzerland, 28 March 2019 - Participants from across...
New mathematical model could be key to designing effective therapies for brain disorders
The G-protein-coupled receptors are present in many neurological and psychological disorders thanks to the activation of G proteins. In addition...
Breast cancer: The promises of old recipes
Researchers from UNIGE and UNIL demonstrate the efficacy of a well-known antibiotic in treating a particularly fatal form of breast...
Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes
Rational molecular passivation for high-performance perovskite light-emitting diodesCredit: Thor Balkhed Efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes of perovskite have been produced...
Anions and cations in dual-ion batteries act like cowherd and weaver girl
Credit: TANG Yongbing Dual-ion batteries (DIBs), in which both cations and anions are involved in the electrochemical redox reaction, are...
UTSA receives $2.2 million in geological software for sub-surface visualization
(San Antonio, Mar. 27, 2019) - The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received an in-kind software donation...
Virtual reality could be used to treat autism
Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism,...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing...
Adhesive formed from bee spit and flower oil could form basis of new glues
Credit: Evan Atkinson Honey bees spend hours each day collecting pollen and packing it into tidy bundles attached to their...