Month: May 2011

Taking their cue from social media, educators have developed a social networking application called Classroom…

Engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and…

Colorectal cancer screening rates increased for Medicare beneficiaries when coverage was expanded to average-risk individuals,…

Biophysicists have helped develop a new technique for studying how proteins respond to physical stress…

Physicists now describe how the magnetic properties of electrons in two dissimilar families of iron-based…

Chemical engineers have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared…

Under Osama bin Laden’s leadership, al-Qaida has been one of the most lethal terrorist organization…

More than one in 10 catheter-related bloodstream infections due to S. aureus in hospitalized adults…

Damage to normal DNA is a hallmark of cancer cells. Although it had previously been…

Phase change materials display a surprisingly low thermal conductivity even in the crystalline state.