Epigenetic mechanism can explain how chemicals in plastic may cause lower IQ levels
Credit: Jacob Nordström The chemical bisphenol F (found in plastics) can induce changes in a gene that is vital for ...
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Electric cars: Special dyes could prevent unnecessary motor replacements
Credit: Uni Halle / Alexander Funtan One day in the near future dyes in electric motors might indicate when cable ...
Life may have become cellular by using unusual molecules
All modern life is cellular, but how life came to be cellular remains uncertain. New research suggests chemical compounds likely ...
New method for producing synthetic DNA
Chemically synthesized short DNA sequences are extremely important ingredients with countless uses like in detecting COVID-19. Researchers from Aarhus University ...
Pepsin-degradable plastics of bionylons from itaconic and amino acids
Credit: Image courtesy: Tatsuo Kaneko and Mohammad Asif Ali from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Point: Novel chiral ...
Researchers develop magnetic thin film for spin-thermoelectric energy conversion
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently introduced a new class of magnetic materials for spin ...
Materials research says yes to wood
Credit: © TU Graz / BPTI As a renewable resource, wood offers great potential in the fight against the climate ...
The first hydroxide conductivity in anion conducting polymer thin films
Researchers from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully established a new humidity in situ measurements for ...
Having a ball: New English Premier League soccer ball more stable, drags more
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba compare a new English Premier League soccer ball with previous versions in wind-tunnel experiments, ...
ORNL’s Sergei Kalinin elected Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America
Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Sergei Kalinin, a scientist and inventor at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National ...
Diversity and universality of jamming
Credit: Osaka University Researchers at Chinese Academy of Science and Osaka University show that, unlike the crystalline close packing of ...
Neural nets used to rethink material design
Rice lab's new strategy puts evolution of microscopic structures on fast trackCredit: Mesoscale Materials Science Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (April ...
Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer ...
How acidic are atoms?
The acidity of molecules can be easily determined, but until now it was not possible to measure this important property ...