Money could buy happiness if your purchases fit your personality, according to a new study…
Month: April 2016
How manufacturers win by not playing the field
Doing business with a limited number of major customers allows manufacturers to hold fewer inventories…
Rare meets common: Reacting protactinium with ubiquitous water explains an elemental oddity
Scientists demonstrated that a positively charged protactinium dioxide ion may not exist in aqueous solution…
Oil and gas wastewater disposal may harm West Virginia waterways
Unconventional oil and gas operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ to release…
New survey on American attitudes toward Zika virus finds limited awareness or concern
A surve finds that three-quarters of Americans who have heard at least a little about…
Methods used to create textiles also could help manufacture human tissues
Tissue engineering is a process that uses novel biomaterials seeded with stem cells to grow…
Primate evolution in the fast lane
The pace of evolution is typically measured in millions of years, as random, individual mutations…
Catalyst could make production of key chemical more eco-friendly
A new catalyst combining copper nanoparticles with a special type of graphene could lead to…
Nanoparticles show promise for treating intestinal inflammation, study finds
Nanoparticles designed to block a cell-surface molecule that plays a key role in inflammation could…
No more broken hearts
The genetic mechanisms underlying the development of the coronary atherosclerosis has been investigated. Results show…