Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogenCredit: Illustration: NTNU In June, the International Energy Agency confirmed what most experts already know: that the...
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Gallium-based solvating agent efficiently analyzes optically active alcohols
Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team has developed a gallium-based metal complex enabling the rapid chiral analysis of alcohols. A team working under Professor Hyunwoo...
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with...
Scientist receives $3.5 million NIH grant to study pain-relief and cannabis
Credit: UCLA Health Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of...
Salk Institute receives Charity Navigator’s highest rating for ninth consecutive time
Status achieved by only three percent of nonprofitsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 14, 2019) For the ninth consecutive time, the Salk Institute has earned the...
‘Nudging’ heart patients to take their statins leads to better adherence and better outcomes
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease - they cut the risk of a second major adverse cardiac...
Blocking a survival mechanism could tackle melanoma treatment resistance
Credit: the Babraham Institute The effectiveness of current treatments for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, could be improved by using approaches that wipe...
Inoculating against the spread of viral misinformation
Study of vaccine-related Facebook ads reveals ongoing challenges to public healthCredit: Kirian Villalta, UMD School of Public Health In a year that has seen the...
Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) ProjectCredit: Arindam Banerjee Imagine...
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November 14, 2019 - A new...
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is the first to include 3D...
Unhealthy habits can start young: Infants, toddlers, and added sugars
A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics breaks new ground by evaluating a nationally representative sample of infant and...
No deliveries: How cells decide when to accept extracellular packages
Credit: Edward Partlow and Dr. Richard Baker Endocytosis, a fundamental process that cells use to take in macromolecules, functions a lot like an airlock on...
Lab-wide sustainability efforts win federal recognition
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has won a regional Federal Green Challenge award for conserving resources and saving taxpayers'...
How giant kelp may respond to climate change
In a changing ocean, giant kelp's reproductive success depends on where it's fromCredit: Jordan Hollarsmith/UC Davis When a marine heat wave hit California's coast in...
