Supercomputer simulation reveals 2-D glass can go infinitely soft
Credit: Hayato Shiba Scientists in Japan have revealed that if a glassy solid possesses a planar (sheet-like) structure, it can exhibit enhanced thermal vibration motion...
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Lehigh University’s Dr. Nelson Tansu elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Credit: Lehigh University Professor Nelson Tansu of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science has been named a Fellow of the National...
Are we running out of vanilla? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2016 -- Vanilla is more than a standby ice cream flavor. It's used to flavor approximately 18,000...
NIFA announces $4 million in funding for biotechnology risk assessment research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of up to...
The delights of dirt
Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent after warm rain or the...
Forming a second line of plant defense — capturing disease-resistant DNA
Credit: Earlham Institute RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants. Each plant typically carries hundreds of...
New wheat crops as an alternative to a gluten-free diet
Wheat, one of the most widely consumed grains in the world, contains gluten, a mixture of proteins that can be toxic for people with coeliac...
Mutations acquired trans-Pacific may be key to changes in Zika severity
Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in 1947, the virus was shown...
Drugs from nature: Big effects of multiple compounds in small amounts
FRANKFURT. Nature often produces a whole weaponry of active ingredients to ensure it is well prepared for any scenario that might occur. Pharmacists and medical...
Using herpes drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s disease could become reality
(Umea University) The first clinical study to investigate if herpes virus drugs can have an effect on fundamental Alzheimer's disease processes has been launched at...
Scientists redefine horned dinosaur relationships by naming 2 new ceratopsian tribes
Cleveland, Ohio . . . Scientists have named two new clades, or tribes, of horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) based on fossils collected from the United States...
Salmon, blue mussel, eider, and eel die from the same vitamin deficiency
Deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in wildlife is previously known as a problem among certain species within relatively limited geographical areas. Now, researchers at Stockholm...
Energy cascades in quasicrystals trigger an avalanche of discovery
Credit: Amanda Petford-Long/Argonne National Laboratory Most materials, when viewed at the atomic level, come in one of two types. Some materials, like table salt, are...
New study seeks to use human serum to detect heart attacks
Credit: UNIST Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Therefore, a fast and reliable diagnosis of heart attack is...
Personalizing chemotherapy to treat pediatric leukemia
A team of UCLA bioengineers has demonstrated that its technology may go a long way toward overcoming the challenges of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia,...
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