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Novel method to identify illicit designer drugs developed
(Boston)-- A new technique has been identified that quickly and cheaply recognizes illegal designer drugs that normally evade detection. The...
Empa Innovation Award for new flame retardant
We frequently encounter polyurethane (PU) foams in everyday life: they are in the insulation in house façades and refrigerators, in...
Environment-friendly hydrophobic coating made with salt particles
Credit: Photo provided by POSTECH Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted global attention due to their water-repellant characteristics and myriad number and...
Personality tests for fish could help boost reproduction rates
Aquaculture experts from the University of Stirling and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) in Catalonia,...
Simulation brings global 100 percent renewable electricity system alive for the first time
A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and...
Brazilian free-tailed bat is the fastest flyer in the animal kingdom
Up to now, the speed record for horizontal flight was held by birds from the swift family: the common swift,...
Full detonation in the hippocampus
Credit: Courtesy of Astrid Rollenhagen and Joachim Lübke; for details see Rollenhagen et al., J. Neurosci. 27: 10434-10444 (2007) Synapses...
‘Bottlebrush’ polymers make dielectric elastomers increasingly viable for use in devices
Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size...
My contribution to Arctic sea ice melt
Credit: Dirk Notz For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres...
Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments consortium formed
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for $3.6 million over five years will support formation of MARISA (Mid-Atlantic Regional...
Alzheimer’s disease found to be a diabetic disorder of the brain
Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease, by noticing a similarity in...
Ketofol an alternative deep sedative for emergency departments
Credit: The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Australian emergency medicine researchers have successfully trialled an alternative deep sedative for patients...
Elucidating sex differences in Alzheimer’s disease risk
Boston, MA - Women have a two-fold higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men, yet strikingly little is known...
Researchers reveal how neurodegenerative diseases spread through the brain
Synapses, the place where brain cells contact one another, play a pivotal role in the transmission of toxic proteins. This...
Researchers discover new regulator in glucose metabolism
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A key genetic switch in the liver regulates glucose metabolism...
Healthy living equals better brain function
It should be obvious that those with greater self-control live a healthier lifestyle. After all, it takes self-control to exercise...
Quantifying the hidden environmental cost of hydroelectric dams
Credit: American Chemical Society Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy, and the facilities that produce it give off less greenhouse gases...
Making artificial ‘cells’ move like real cells (video)
Artificial "cells" could someday zoom around in the body and deliver medicines to specific locations, act as in-tissue diagnosticians and...
Experimental drug delivers one-two punch to prostate cancer cells
Credit: Venu Raman An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to...
Human health risks from hydroelectric projects
Credit: Prentiss Balcom (Harvard SEAS) In a new study, Harvard University researchers find over 90 percent of potential new Canadian...
