Chemistry AND Physics
Will raindrops stick to a spider web’s threads?
Loading video... Credit: Wonjung Kim/Sogang University WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2016 - If you go out after a rain, you...
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards $3.9 million in NARSAD grants
NEW YORK CITY (April 12, 2016)--The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced its 2016 Independent Investigator Grants, which award...
Louisiana Tech University hosts ‘Maker Month’ to celebrate creativity, innovation
Credit: Louisiana Tech University RUSTON, La - The Innovation Enterprise at Louisiana Tech University is proud to announce its inaugural...
1917 astronomical plate has first-ever evidence of exoplanetary system
Pasadena, CA-- You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn't know it a...
Better coffee through chemistry (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 12, 2016 -- It's one of the most popular beverages in the world,...
Progress of simulating dynamics in heterogeneous materials
Dynamical responses of heterogeneous materials are far from clear to scientists, although they are common phenomena in engineering applications. The...
Major advance in ‘synthetic biochemistry’ holds promise for industrial products, biofuels
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA UCLA biochemists have devised a clever way to make a variety of useful chemical compounds, which could...
It’s a small world
Honed over millions of years of evolution, our circadian rhythms are responsible for the adaptation of our bodies to cycles...
Researchers define links within two supercontinents
A University of Wyoming researcher contributed to a paper that has apparently solved an age-old riddle of how constituent continents...
Researchers identify root of chronic pain as potential new drug target
Okazaki, Japan - When we are in pain, we reach for painkillers as we try to "turn off" the pain....
Zika virus tested in brain precursor cells
Zika virus preferentially kills developing brain cells, a new study reports. The results offer evidence for how Zika virus may...
New way to smell a rat means end for rodents
Simon Fraser University scientists have developed a new way to exterminate rats by identifying and synthetically replicating the male brown...
HRL to develop next-generation inertial sensor technology
MALIBU, Calif., April 11, 2016 -- Positioning, navigation, and timing are key to ensuring the location accuracy critical to the...
Researchers generate clean energy using bacteria-powered solar panel
BINGHAMTON, NY - Researchers have taken the next step in the evolution of bacteria-powered energy. For the first time ever,...
Fertilizer’s legacy: Taking a toll on land and water
Tempe, Ariz.-- The world's total human population has jumped to over 7.4 billion just this year. Feeding the human species...
Building Immunity: MBL Whitman Center team recreates a T-cell receptor signaling pathway
Loading video... Credit: Credit: Xiaolei Su WOODS HOLE, Mass.-- The front line of the human immune system is made up...
Mapping the routes to drug resistance in cancer
When a freeway shuts down because of an accident or construction, drivers find another road to take them where they're...
New tool refines exoplanet search
Washington, DC-- Planet-hunting is an ongoing process that's resulting in the discovery of more and more planets orbiting distant stars....
Three-way battles in the quantum world
Credit: ETH Zurich / Tobias Donner This news release is available in German. When water in a pot is slowly...
Kirkham Gold Medal honors soil scientist van Genuchten
April 11, 2016 - The Soil Science Society of America will present the Don and Betty Kirkham Gold Medal to...