Month: May 2014

New catalysts to remove oxygenated compounds from bio-derived oils may lead to better and cheaper…

The use of a fabrication technique borrowed from the semiconductor industry brings metamaterial applications a…

Newly detected ‘energy-clustering’ structures inside rare-earth nanoparticles generate intense violet light, which is ideal for…

A robust micrometer-scale structure for trapping light enhances optical interactions in advanced photonic devices. Trapping…

Chiral compounds are increasingly important in chemical manufacturing. They are distinguished by a special kind…

The mechanism by which an enzyme produced in the intestinal lining helps to maintain a…

A new mechanism that distinguishes normal blood stem cells from blood cancers has been developed…

Plant scientists find fatty acid desaturating enzymes link up to pass intermediate products from one…

Scientists have discovered a new plant species with an unusual lifestyle — it eats nickel…

Texas Hispanics were more than twice as likely as whites to have enrolled in health…