Now that the World Series is about to begin, a math professor has announced the…
Month: October 2013
Deciding when ‘not’ to maximize profits: How and why some corporations sabotage their own subsidiaries
Corporate America doesn’t always maximize profits — companies sometimes deliberately leave money on the table…
TopoChip reveals the Braille code of cells
A new tool is uncovering the fundamentals of how cells respond to surfaces and could…
Uncovering the tricks of nature’s ice-seeding bacteria
New discoveries could impact applications ranging from artificial snowmaking to global climate models.
Detailed look at a DNA repair protein in action
Researchers have invented a new technique for studying the process by which certain errors in…
Birthing a new breed of materials
New research shows scientists’ first steps into the unexplored territory of interfacial materials that could…
Vacuums provide solid ground for new definition of kilogram
The weight of the kilogram may soon rest on the emptiness of a vacuum.
Ignorance is sometimes bliss
Evolutionary biologist W.D. Hamilton predicted that organisms ought to evolve the ability to discriminate degrees…
Protein safeguards against cataracts
The refractive power of the human eye lens relies on a densely packed mixture of…
Researchers capture images of open channel that moves proteins across cell membranes
Similar to passengers on an urban transit system, every protein made in the cell has…