Research into a more energy-efficient catalytic process to produce olefins, the building blocks for polymer…
Month: May 2017
New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
Engineers have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand….
Household chemicals may impair thyroid in young girls
Early childhood exposures to specific phthalates were associated with depressed thyroid function in girls at…
Preventing software from causing injury
Workplace injuries don’t just come from lifting heavy things or falling off a ladder. People…
Glove powered by soft robotics to interact with virtual reality environments
Engineers are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to…
Nitrogen fixation research could shed light on biological mystery
Half the world’s population depends for its survival on nitrogen fixed by bacteria, but we…
New plasmonic sensor improves early cancer detection
A new plasmonic sensor will serve as a reliable early detection of biomarkers for many…
Common antioxidant could slow symptoms of aging in human skin
New work suggests that a common, inexpensive and safe chemical could slow the aging of…
Heavy particles get caught up in the flow
By teasing out signatures of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the…
Genetic analysis of New World birds confirms untested evolutionary assumption
Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and…