Particles and molecules prefer not to mix
In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreIn the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreSelf-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality thanks to research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and at Japan's RIKEN institute.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreAn international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreMIT has become a major center of work on graphene, with several different research groups pursuing various aspects -- including physical, chemical, electronic and engineering -- of the novel material.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreA material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of California, Davis.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreEU-funded scientists have developed a new, non-viral way of getting genes into a cell. The technique appears to avoid the side-effects, such as cancer, which can occur when viruses are used to smuggle genes into a cell.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreMIT researchers have developed tiny gold particles that can home in on tumors, and then, by absorbing energy from near-infrared light and emitting it as heat, destroy tumors with minimal side effects.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreShanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a third-generation of synchrotron radiation light source, is completed and ready for use.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreIn future, cartilage, tendon and blood vessel tissue will be produced in the laboratory, with cells being grown on a porous frame, such as non-wovens. A new software program helps to characterize and optimize the non-wovens.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreIn a new paper, researchers describe ACEMBL, the first fully automated pipeline for the production of multiprotein complexes.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreVoid spaces are too small for metals.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of Virginia Health Science Center evaluated a novel glioma therapy through the targeted delivery of controlled-release nanoparticles to an immunocompromised mouse model.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreChemists at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich have analyzed a molecule, which has an extremely short bond length. As reported by the researchers in Nature Chemistry, the carbon atom and the chlorine atom in the so-called chlorotrinitromethane molecule are only 1.69 Angstroms apart from one another.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreCarbon nanotubes have made a meteoric career in the past 15 years, even if their applications are still limited. One aspect which has rarely been considered so far is now addressed by researchers of the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.
May 4th, 2009
Read moreYale researchers describe a breakthrough in safe and effective administration of potential antiviral drugs - small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that silence genes - the first step in development of a new kind of treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
May 3rd, 2009
Read moreNew findings could lead to developing surgical adhesives that would bind to wet surfaces and be less invasive than suturing mechanisms.
May 1st, 2009
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