Clemson scientist receives $367K grant to trace how arsenic disrupts developing cells
Credit: Jim Melvin / Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Novelists often employ arsenic poisoning as a dramatic tool to kill off a character. But...
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Synthesis of medicinally privileged heterocycles through dielectric heating
Heterocyclic compounds are enormously crucial in various industries including food, agricultural, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Heterocyclic pharmacophores are one of the main chemical components in ..
Philosophy & Predictive Processing online publication on the mind, brain and consciousness
Mainz-based Professor of Philosophy Thomas Metzinger sets another example for ethically responsible publishing in the digital age. After successfully publishing the Open MIND Project in...
In-cell NMR: A new application
Credit: Enrico Luchinat and Lucia Banci The structure of biological macromolecules is critical to understanding their function, mode of interaction and relationship with their neighbours,...
Plants at the pump
Credit: Photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif.--Regular, unleaded or algae? That's a choice drivers could make at the pump one day. But for...
The protective layer of prehistoric land plants
Credit: Photo: Ralf Reski An international research team has discovered a biochemical pathway that is responsible for the development of moss cuticles. These waxy coverings...
Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba
Credit: Fabiany Herrera & Patrick Herendeen A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed...
Stabilizing soils with sulfates to improve their constructional properties
Credit: Seco et al., 2017 The journal Applied Clay Science has recently published the paper 'Sulfate soils stabilization with magnesium-based bindersâ', a piece of research...
Ionization mechanisms of captive atoms struck by light matter
Light interacting with hydrogen atoms enclosed in hollow cages composed of carbon atoms - referred to as fullerene material - produces ionisation. This phenomenon, which...
Mechanism underlying size-sorting of rubble on asteroid Itokawa revealed
Credit: JAXA In 2005, the Hayabusa spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) landed on Itokawa, a small near-Earth asteroid named after the...
How rare sugars might help control blood glucose
In an era when the label "natural" hits a sweet spot with consumers, some uncommon sugars emerging on the market could live up to the...
Moving toward faster, more accurate detection of food- and water-borne bacteria
Credit: Charles S. Henry, Ph.D. Food poisoning is a scourge. Yet preventing it is far from foolproof. But in a new study in Analytical Chemistry,...
Physicists design a device inspired by sonic screwdriver
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Physicists have designed a handheld device inspired by the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who and the tricorder in Star Trek that...
New technology platform propels the use of ‘organs-on-chips’
A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital has developed a novel technology platform that enables the continuous and automated monitoring of...
Phonon nanoengineering: Vibrations of nanoislands dissipate heat more effectively
Credit: (Source: IFJ PAN) Europium silicide has for some time attracted the attention of scientists. Recognized as being promising for electronics and spintronics, this material...
