Why is fertilizer used in explosives? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2020 -- Over the last century, the compound ammonium nitrate has been ...
Tag: Chemical/Biological Weapons
Army senior scientist earns Teddy Award
Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - A U.S. Army senior scientist earned a 2020 Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership ...
NTU Singapore scientists devise ‘Trojan horse’ approach to kill cancer cells without using drugs
Credit: NTU Singapore Cancer cells are killed in lab experiments and tumour growth reduced in mice, using a new approach ...
Army fields new chemical detection technology
Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but ...
Investigation of core-shell nanocatalyst [email protected] for ammonia synthesis
Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, a team of researchers from Xinjiang University, China have prepared [email protected] photocatalyst ...
Scientist to resurrect water fleas from U.S. nuclear fallout zone
UTA examining evolutionary effects of nuclear testing on preserved water flea eggsCredit: The University of Texas at Arlington A researcher ...
Are cover crops negatively impacting row crops?
Credit: Katja Koehler-Cole Winter cover crops benefit soil health and can suppress weeds in subsequent row crops but may also ...
UArizona aims to provide rapid tests for those exposed to biothreats, such as COVID-19
Backed by a US Department of Defense contract for up to $9.5 million, the University of Arizona College of Medicine ...
For cleaner air, water, and soil
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists ...
SwRI receives $1.3 million to build robotic inspection system for nuclear waste storage tanks
Engineers will build guided wave robot to help ensure continued safe storage of nuclear wasteCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO ...
A new mechanism improves the efficiency of antibacterial surfaces
Universitat Rovira i Virgili researchers have developed a nanometric-scale theoretical model to create structures that kill bacteria by using elastic ...
Volcanic glass spray shows promise in controlling mosquitoes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Roe, NC State University. An indoor residual spray made by combining a type of volcanic ...
CSIC researchers use whole living cells as ‘templates’ to seek for bioactive molecules
Lung cancer cells were used to design a methodology that could help in the future to differentiate healthy versus cancerous ...
Female Gulf War combat veterans have persistent symptoms more than 25 years later
Credit: Augusta University photographer Kim Ratliff AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 25, 2020) - More than a quarter century after the Gulf ...