This Week from AGU: Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow
GeoSpace Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow by up to 84 percent, new study finds Dust released by an active coal mine...
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Controlling electron spin makes water splitting more efficient
One of the main obstacles in the production of hydrogen through water splitting is that hydrogen peroxide is also formed, which affects the efficiency stability...
Potential new drug class hits multiple cancer cell targets, boosting efficacy and safety
MYC is a regulator gene. It controls the expression of other genes and codes transcription factors or proteins involved in many fundamental cellular processes. It's...
New type of PET imaging identifies primary and metastatic prostate cancer
Credit: Jingjing Zhang, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Reston, Virginia -- In the featured article from the February 2017 issue of the Journal of...
Gull decline on Scottish island linked to decline in fishing discards
Credit: by Tom Bickerton/BTO The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species...
Building up biomaterials: Michigan Tech researchers lead Forest Bioeconomy Conference
Biomaterials are any organic materials that can be cultivated or extracted from nature's ecosystems; any organic material extracted from the forest is considered a forest...
What to expect from big pharma in 2017
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved just 22 new therapeutic drugs, which is less than half the number approved in 2015. The cover...
New study finds extensive use of fluorinated chemicals in fast food wrappers
Credit: University of Notre Dame/iStock Americans may be consuming fast food wrapped in paper treated with perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) -- the same chemicals used in...
Cocktail of bacteria-killing viruses prevents cholera infection in animal models
BOSTON (Feb. 1, 2017)--Oral administration of a cocktail of three viruses, all of which specifically kill cholera bacteria, prevents infection and cholera-like symptoms in animal...
MIT’s wearable AI system can detect a conversation’s tone
Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with anxiety...
Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries
Credit: ORNL Ever since Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the first battery out of a stack of copper and zinc disks separated by moistened cardboard,...
UK’s new EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub for advanced powder processes launches
Credit: @Helena Marie MAPP aims to realise the potential of advanced powder processes to provide low energy, low cost and low waste high value manufacturing...
A cheaper way to make a WHO-designated essential medicine
A fungal form of meningitis leads to more than 600,000 deaths in Africa every year and is responsible for 20 percent of HIV/AIDS-related deaths globally,...
Sandia’s solar glitter closer to market with new licensing agreement
Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- An Albuquerque company founded by a Sandia National Laboratories scientist-turned-entrepreneur has received a license for a "home-grown"...
Novel liquid crystal could triple sharpness of today’s televisions
Credit: Yuge Huang and Ruidong Zhu, CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida WASHINGTON -- An international team of researchers has...
