Creativity and innovation are not sufficiently integrated in either the business world or academic research,…
Month: April 2014
Black carbon is ancient by the time it reaches seafloor
A fraction of the carbon that finds its way into Earth’s oceans — the black…
Scalable CVD process for making 2-D molybdenum diselenide
Nanoengineering researchers have unveiled a potentially scalable method for making one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum diselenide…
Synthetic gene circuits pump up cell signals in study of neurodegenerative diseases
Synthetic genetic circuitry created by researchers is helping them monitor cell mechanisms that degrade the…
Logo color affects consumer emotion toward brands, study finds
The specific colors used in a company’s logo have a significant impact on how that…
Thinking about a majority-minority shift leads to more conservative views
Facing the prospect of racial minority groups becoming the overall majority in the United States…
Expanding particles to engineer defects: Adding larger particle to crystalline system can create order rather than distortions
Materials scientists have long known that introducing defects into three-dimensional materials can improve their mechanical…
New method for analyzing proteins in tissue samples
A new way of preparing patient tissue for analyses might soon become the new standard….
New epidemiology model combines multiple genomic data
Data about DNA differences, gene expression, or methylation can each tell epidemiologists something about the…
Potential therapeutic target for deadly brain cancer
New research identifies a potential characteristic for predicting outcome in a deadly form of brain…