Detecting bloodstains — with an antimalarial compound
Credit: American Chemical Society As seen on crime shows, investigators use a combination of luminol and other substances to light up bloodstains at crime scenes....
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JSA names co-recipients of its 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize
Washington, DC - Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, announced today that Charles Perdrisat and Charles Sinclair are the recipients of the 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize....
When gold turns invisible
Credit: Seki T. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2, 2017 A gold compound shifts from a visible fluorescence to emitting infrared...
Bamboo inspires optimal design for lightness and toughness
Credit: Sato M., et al., PLOS ONE, May 3, 2017 The spatial distribution of fibers in hollow bamboo cylinders is optimized to reinforce flexural rigidity,...
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject of intense research interest for...
From terrestrial and marine bioresources and wastes to value-added products
One of the main objectives of bio-based economy is to provide end markets with a wide selection of bio-based products able to compete with the...
Spotting the invisible
(Umea University) Chemists at Umeå University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping structures and functions of a transient enzyme state. By modifying the enzyme adenylate...
Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women
Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers show that tea consumption in...
Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers
Credit: © Thomas Le Provost Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key to work, it must consist...
Nitrogen oxides emissions: Traffic dramatically underestimated as major polluter
Credit: Uni Innsbruck In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are consistently breached. It has been a challenge to determine how...
CNIO presents an online tool to extract drug toxicity information from text
The Biological Text Mining Unit presents in a recent Nucleic Acids Research paper the LimTox online software tool developed at the Spanish National Cancer Research...
Uber and Kazan University name Saint-Petersburg the most ‘taxi-abundant’ city in Russia
The two parties sampled 1,600 Uber users in Russia's five biggest cities - Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. The results showed that Saint-Petersburg has...
PNG expedition discovers largest trees at extreme altitudes
Credit: Dr Michelle Venter The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds has revealed the high mountain...
Zinc may hold key to fighting liver disease
Credit: The Westmead Institute for Medical Research New research from the Westmead Institute's Storr Liver Centre in collaboration with the Centre for Virus Research and...
Common acne medication offers new treatment for multiple sclerosis
A Canadian clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), shows that...
