Tiny nanoclusters could solve big problems for lithium-ion batteries
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- As devices become smaller and more powerful, they require faster, smaller, more stable batteries. University of...
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Four NYU faculty win Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships
Four New York University faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Jayeeta Basu, an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute at...
Cocaine addiction leads to build-up of iron in brain
Cocaine addiction may affect how the body processes iron, leading to a build-up of the mineral in the brain, according to new research from the...
Pitt study finds potential marker of drug response in many cancer types
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have uncovered a novel genetic mechanism of thyroid cancer, as well...
Barriers and opportunities to mainstreaming of a national digital health program
A new study led by the University of Glasgow reports on key barriers and facilitators to implementing a digital health programme - and provides recommendations...
Industry funding biases drug trial studies in favor of sponsors’ products
The review, which adds 27 studies to update a previous Cochrane review, confirms earlier analyses by "providing definitive evidence that pharmaceutical industry funding of drug...
VTT’s vision of the era of smart and consumer-centric food production
We are moving into the era, where food production and digitalisation will merge to form a new food economy. The transition is already under way...
‘Gravitational noise’ interferes with determining the coordinates of distant sources
Credit: MIPT Press Office Our Galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most clearly appeared for objects that...
Crowdsourcing effort helps researchers predict how a molecule will smell
Credit: The Rockefeller University You can anticipate a color before you see it, based solely on the length of light waves. Music can be interpreted...
A chemical investigation of employees — How to distinguish a blue collar from a white one
The objective of the investigation was to compare and to analyze hair trace element content in workers of different departments of a petrochemical plant. A...
Fifth of world’s food lost to over-eating and waste, study finds
Almost 20 per cent of the food made available to consumers is lost through over-eating or waste, a study suggests. The world population consumes around...
Teflon subproducts recycled into valuable pharmaceuticals
Credit: Public Domain Fluoroform is highly pollutant, greenhouse effect chemical compound made of carbon and fluorine atoms. It is generated as one of the main...
A novel positioning algorithm based on self-adaptive algorithm
Much attention has been paid to the Taylor series expansion (TSE) method these years, which has been extensively used for solving nonlinear equations for its...
Novel plasma jet offshoot phenomenon explains blue atmospheric jets
Ionised matter, like plasma, still holds secrets. Physicists working with plasma jets, made of a stream of ionised matter, have just discovered a new phenomenon....
Fluorescence method detects mercury contamination in fish
Credit: José Antonio Gil MartÃnez Researchers from the University of Burgos (Spain) have developed a fluorescent polymer that lights up in contact with mercury that...