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Month: September 2016
Fuel cell membrane outperforms market: ‘Goldilocks’ membrane is just about right
Industrial interest is expected in a vehicular fuel cell membrane able to excrete protons at…
Reconciling dwarf galaxies with dark matter
Dwarf galaxies are enigmas wrapped in riddles. Although they are the smallest galaxies, they represent…
Antimicrobial chemicals found with antibiotic-resistance genes in indoor dust
University of Oregon researchers have found links between the levels of antimicrobial chemicals and antibiotic-resistance…
Life history of the 360-million-year-old tetrapod Acanthostega rewrites the tetrapod move to land
Researchers have shown that fossils of the 360 million-year-old tetrapod Acanthostega, one of the iconic…
Atomic scale pipes available on demand and by design
Researchers have discovered how to create the smallest ever water and gas pipes that are…
Fruit flies yield clues on cancerous tumor hotspots
Scientists have found that the epithelial tissues that line the surfaces of organs throughout the…
Breakthrough in materials science: Scientists bond metals with nearly all surfaces
How metals can be used depends particularly on the characteristics of their surfaces. A research…
Scientists identify genes that disrupt response to breast cancer treatment
In breakthrough research on breast cancer, a team discovered that higher levels of the nuclear…
13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine
The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world,…