NIH grantees often fail to report foreign interests
A survey showed that many institutions don’t ask about foreign funding sources
Read MorePPG to Exhibit Newly Acquired Vanberg Specialized Coatings Solutions at World Pork Expo
PPG announced that it will feature its recently acquired Vanberg Specialized Coatings line of agriculturally focused protective coatings and repair mortars.
Read MoreNASA to Discuss New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Study Today
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT today – Thursday, June 9 – to discuss a new study team the agency is commissioning to examine unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).
Read MoreWhen Galaxy Clusters Collide
Galaxy clusters contain hundreds of galaxies and huge amounts of hot gas and dark matter.
Read MoreNew delivery method allows slow-release of broader array of peptide drugs in the body
A new study from the University of Michigan describes one of the first entirely new drug delivery microencapsulation approaches in decades.
Read MoreResearchers to study whether metal-corroding microbes can grow in Canada’s proposed nuclear waste facility
With Canada getting closer to moving all its spent nuclear fuel to a single facility, and encasing each fuel container in bentonite clay, researchers are studying whether that clay could support microbial life—which could eat away at the metal containers.
Read MorePhonon dynamics enable a deeper understanding of how heat travels through quantum dots
As electronic, thermoelectric and computer technologies have been miniaturized to nanometer scale, engineers have faced a challenge studying fundamental properties of the materials involved; in many cases, targets are too small to be observed with optical instruments.
Read MoreResearchers can customize cavities in new porous material
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have produced a porous and stable material in which the cavities can be used to store various substances. The material can be used both in the pharmaceutical industry and for filtration at the molecular level.
Read MoreAI and the Patent System
As regular readers will know, I am not yet of the opinion that artificial intelligence has led to any new drugs – yet. But I’m also of the opinion that there is no reason that it can’t, or that it shouldn’t, given the advances in the field. Now, AI (and machine learning as well) are […]
Read MoreHow having health care workers handle nonviolent police calls may impact crime
For the last two years, a person acting erratically in downtown Denver has likely first encountered unarmed health care workers rather than police. That shift stems from the rollout of a program known as Support Team Assisted Response, or STAR, which sends a mental health clinician and paramedic to respond to certain 911 calls about […]
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A pigment’s shift in chemistry robbed a painted yellow rose of its brilliance
The fading of a once-vibrant yellow rose reveals how the ravages of time and chemical alteration can dampen the visual power of a painting. Most of the flowers in Abraham Mignon’s 17th century painting Still Life with Flowers and a Watch seem to leap off the canvas. But one yellow rose, painted with arsenic sulfide–based […]
Read MoreElectrocatalytic hydrogen atom transfer could give industrial organic synthesis a boost
The new approach – inspired by decades of energy storage research – is selective, efficient and sustainable
Read MoreElectrolyte redesign boosts seawater battery
Anode-less system can both store energy and harvest sodium from the sea
Read MoreStudy identifies receptor that could alleviate need for chemo, radiation pre-T cell therapy
A research team has shown that a synthetic IL-9 receptor allows cancer-fighting T cells to do their work without the need for chemotherapy or radiation.
Read MoreBizarre meat-eating dinosaur joins ‘Rogues’ Gallery’ of giant predators from classic fossil site in Egypt’s Sahara Desert
The fossil of a still-unnamed species provides the first known record of the abelisaurid group of theropods from a middle Cretaceous-aged (approximately 98 million years old) rock unit known as the Bahariya Formation, which is exposed in the Bahariya Oasis of the Western Desert of Egypt.
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