Evolved enzymes help modify insulin’s amines
Strategy could precisely tweak protein drugs to improve their pharmacology
Read MoreDisruptions are reshaping global fertilizer markets
Nutrien is expanding in North America as natural gas prices force a UK fertilizer factory to shut down
Read MoreAkzoNobel Updates its Second Quarter Outlook
AkzoNobel updates Q2 outlook based on impact of China lockdowns and slower start to the EMEA DIY season.
Read MoreNASA, Partner Agency Leaders to Talk to Space Station Astronauts
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia, and leadership from the U.S. Embassy in Rome will speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station this week.
Read MoreThe Progress Pride Flag Flies at NASA Headquarters
The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building.
Read MoreAiming to improve joint connection technologies for light-weight and high-strength structures
The research team (led by Professor Yukihiro Matsumoto) formed by Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering of Toyohashi University of Technology and Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) proposed and demonstrated a method for improving the dynamic behavior of bolted connections by using Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) materials.
Read MoreElectric shock to petroleum coke generates sustainable graphene
Researchers at Texas A&M University and ExxonMobil are developing a method to reprocess petroleum coke—a byproduct of refining crude oil—into a sustainable, high-value alternative. Using a chemical process called electrochemical exfoliation, they have converted petroleum coke into graphene, a nanomaterial with applications in electronics, medicine and energy storage.
Read MoreGoing platinum: A non-toxic catalyst for clean, re-usable water
Platinum has set a new “gold standard” in jewelry, and now it’s about to upscale the quality of your water.
Read MoreCrude Oil, Treated Less Crudely
This is a pretty wild paper, if you’re like most of us in the human race and not following developments in membrane separation technology. If we think about such things at all, we imagine a sort of high-end filtration device that lets through small stuff and blocks out the larger gunk. That’s accurate as far […]
Read MoreHere’s why pumpkin toadlets are such clumsy jumpers
Some frogs just can’t stick the landing. After launching into a leap, pumpkin toadlets careen through the air as if flung from a toddler’s fist. They roll, cartwheel or backflip and then plummet to the ground, often belly flopping or crash-landing on their backs. “I’ve looked at a lot of frogs and these are the […]
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Ancient bacterial DNA hints Europe’s Black Death started in Central Asia
Although best known as a plague that killed millions of Europeans from 1346 to 1353, the Black Death originated about a decade earlier in Central Asia, a new study suggests. A strain of the plague-causing Yersinia pestis bacterium that killed people in what’s now Kyrgyzstan in 1338 and 1339 was a common ancestor of four […]
Read MorePolyatomic molecule cooled to almost absolute zero
Ultracold calcium monohydroxide created in magneto-optical trap
Read MoreTo find a planet, look for the signatures of planet formation
Finding forming planets is a tough but important job for astronomers: Only three planets have ever been discovered caught in the process of forming, and the most recent of these was found just weeks ago.
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