Chemical/Biological Weapons

Authors of the new Springer book identify mass psychogenic illness as the likely cause of Havana Syndrome, a mysterious condition affecting American and Canadian diplomats stationed in Cuba between 2016 and 2019. Dozens of embassy staff…

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists strive to find a way to purify it. Thanks to the work of an international team led by prof. Juan Carlos…

Engineers will build guided wave robot to help ensure continued safe storage of nuclear wasteCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- June 23, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $1.3 million project…

Universitat Rovira i Virgili researchers have developed a nanometric-scale theoretical model to create structures that kill bacteria by using elastic forces. The results of this study pave the way to creating new antibacterial…

Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Roe, NC State University. An indoor residual spray made by combining a type of volcanic glass with water showed effective control of mosquitoes that carry malaria, according to a new study.…

Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the bodyCredit: Focus Vision Media & Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 5, 2020)--Researchers at Tufts University's School…

A promising but delicate therapeutic targetCredit: Albert Giralt / UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA An interdisciplinary research study of the University of Barcelona identified two potential candidates to treat Alzheimer's disease. These…

Lung cancer cells were used to design a methodology that could help in the future to differentiate healthy versus cancerous cellsCredit: Daniel Carbajo A study performed by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of…

Credit: Augusta University photographer Kim Ratliff AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 25, 2020) - More than a quarter century after the Gulf War, female veterans who saw combat have nearly a twofold risk of reporting more than 20 total medical…

Credit: Takayoshi Arai Japanese researchers have succeeded in catalytic asymmetric iodoesterification from simple alkene substrates and carboxylic acids. Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition on April 27, this…

Award recognizes work in the classroom and laboratoryCredit: Photo: Eli Burakian/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - May 4, 2020 - Katherine Mirica, an assistant professor of chemistry at Dartmouth, has been awarded the 2020 Camille…

Black-light videos from NIST will help crime labs manage an invisible riskCredit: Sisco, Staymates/NIST When two scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) brought black lights and glow powder…

The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with proposal of material processing method for improving performance stabilityCredit: DGIST A technology to further accelerate the…

We must rethink and test assumptions about relationships between biological research, security, and society to plan for biosecurity threats Perhaps the most important lesson we can learn from the current coronavirus pandemic is how to…

The testing at UAB will investigate immune responses to the vaccine in mice -- an important step before any Phase 1 human safety trial in patients later this year.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at…

New study outlines tool that can assess the chance a disease outbreak is of unnatural origins Did coronavirus mutate from a virus already prevalent in humans or animals or did it originate in a laboratory? As scientists grapple with…

Credit: © M. Martschini, University of Vienna Uranium is not always the same: depending on whether this chemical element is released by the civil nuclear industry or as fallout from nuclear weapon tests, the ratio of the two…

Credit: Andrey Kovalevsky/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Biochemistry - Chasing the antidote In the most comprehensive, structure-based approach to date, a team of scientists may have discovered a new family of…

Converting crystalline metal-organic frameworks into glass or liquid could give them unique properties and lead to the design of new materialsCredit: Illustration by Mindy Takamiya (CC BY 4.0) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are…

Safe and environmentally-friendly hydrogen gas on demand could be on the horizon following a new "hydrogenation" chemical process in development at The City College of New York. Led by Mahesh K. Lakshman, the research uniquely bypasses…