If it smells like food, and looks like food, it must be food, right? Not…
Month: November 2016
Thawing ice makes the Alps grow
The Alps are steadily “growing” by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the…
Hazardous chemicals discovered in flavored e-cigarette vapor
Building on more than 30 years of air quality research in some of the most…
Sudoku strategy democratizes powerful tool for genetics research
Researchers have developed a way to produce the tools for figuring out gene function faster…
Antibody supresses HIV in infected individuals
The antibody VRC01 proves safe for individuals infected with HIV-1, but only modestly controls the…
Major artery more rigid in African-Americans, which may explain high rates of hypertension, heart disease
African-Americans have more rigidity of the aorta, the major artery supplying oxygen-rich blood to the…
Scientists, interns bring structural biology’s ‘magic bullet’ technique to x-ray lasers
To understand the three-dimensional shape of a protein, scientists often rely on information from similar…
Solar cells get boost with integration of water-splitting catalyst onto semiconductor
Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst…
What does it take to make a memory? Study says new proteins
For the first time, scientists have identified a sub-region in the brain that works to…
Cone or flask? The shape that detects confinement
In physics, confinement of particles is such an important phenomenon that the Clay Mathematics Institute…