Scientists discover helium chemistry
Credit: Illustration is provided courtesy of Artem R. Oganov. Washington, DC/Moscow-- Although helium is the second most-abundant element (after hydrogen) in the universe, it doesn't...
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Up, up and away: USU chemists say ‘yes,’ helium can form compounds
Credit: Ivan Popov/Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Can helium bond with other elements to form a stable compound? Students attentive to Utah State...
Towards new IT devices with stable and transformable solitons
Credit: IBS Unavoidably, each digital information we send around the globe is prone to be lost. Travelling long ways in wires, the initial signal decays...
Smarter MRI Diagnosis with Nano MRI Lamp
Credit: IBS A research team led by CHEON Jinwoo at the Center for Nanomedicine, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), developed the Nano MRI...
Stomach acid provides long-term power for ingestible devices
Boston, MA - A research team led by scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a set of...
Pharmaceuticals from a coal mine?
Digging around in the dark can sometimes lead to interesting results: in the acidic waters of an abandoned coal mine in Kentucky (USA), researchers discovered...
Five new Pensoft journals integrated with Dryad to improve data discoverability
Credit: Dryad Digital Repository and Pensoft Academic publisher Pensoft strengthens partnership with Dryad by adding its latest five journals to the list integrated with the...
A bridge to breathing
Credit: Randal McKenzie Illustrations PITTSBURGH (February 6, 2017) ... Acute and chronic lung diseases are the most life-threatening causes of hospitalization and death among young...
Sandia adds augmented reality to training toolbox
Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When you hear the term "serious gaming" you might envision professional eSports competitors gearing up for a...
Extractive industries have negative impacts on Indigenous peoples
(Umea University) Extractive industries affect Indigenous peoples in Sweden and Australia, and Indigenous group's perspectives are often ignored or trivialised, according to a PhD thesis...
Killing off rivals makes for happy families, bacteria study finds
A grisly method by which bacteria dispatch their distant relatives also creates conditions in which the attackers can thrive, research has found. Families of bacteria...
Radiotargeted therapy with SST2 antagonists could combat multiple human cancers
Credit: Jean Claude Reubi, Institute of Pathology, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland Reston, Va. - A study published in the February issue of The Journal...
Low-cost imaging system detects natural gas leaks in real time
Credit: Graham M. Gibson, University of Glasgow WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low-cost, real-time detection of...
New study compares the effects of direct exposure to cigarette smoke or e-cigarette vapor
New Rochelle, NY, February 1, 2017--Researchers reported changes in the expression levels of 123 genes when reconstituted lung tissue was exposed to cigarette smoke, compared...
CIFAR receives $4M to strengthen health research in B.C.
(Toronto - Feb. 3, 2017) CIFAR (The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) welcomes the announcement by British Columbia's Ministry of Health that it has made...
