Scientists have learned how to top nature by building crystalline materials from nanoparticles (the “atoms”)…
Month: October 2011
New technologies challenge old ideas about early hominid diets
New assessments by researchers using the latest high-tech tools to study the diets of early…
Nanoparticle assembly is like building with LEGOs
Scientists report that nanotechnology has entered a new era. Because of developments in nanoparticle self-assembly,…
Public reporting has”t improved transplant centers’ care
Public reporting of the successes and failures of transplant centers has not diminished the gaps…
Severe drought, other changes can cause permanent ecosystem disruption
An eight-year study has concluded that increasingly frequent and severe drought, dropping water tables and…
Lower income dads encourage exercise, healthy diet but may give wrong dose of medicine, study suggests
Lower income, urban dads are involved in their children’s health and encourage them to exercise…
New breeds of broccoli remain packed with health benefits
Scientists have demonstrated that mineral levels in new varieties of broccoli have not declined since…
Regaining trust after a transgression
The scene has become all too familiar — the disgraced politician, chastened business leader or…
New scheme for photonic quantum computing
The concepts of quantum technology promise to achieve more powerful information processing than is possible…
A neighborhood’s raw, edgy atmosphere is an essential feature in attracting designers
A neighborhood’s raw, edgy atmosphere is an essential feature in attracting designers, according to new…