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Environmentally-friendly soy-based filter can capture toxic chemicals that other filters can’t
Before and after demonstration of filter's ability. Credit: WSU
Washington State University researchers have developed a soy-based air filter that can capture toxic chemicals, such...
Classic Video Game System Used to Improve Understanding of the Brain
We can examine every transistor in a classical microprocessor using the same techniques we use to understand the brain. For example, we can analyze...
Researchers achieve major breakthrough in flexible electronics
Dr Png Rui-Qi (left), Mr Mervin Ang (middle) and Ms Cindy Tang (right) working on conducting polymers that can provide unprecedented ohmic contacts for...
Workouts with fewer reps could yield better results
Researchers found doing fewer repetitions of these sprint intervals on a bike may lead to greater improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness.Image Credit: Flickr/W_Minshull
Time-poor people who...
Cyanobacteria: The future of sunscreen?
Sunscreens and moisturizers derived from biological sources such as cyanobacteria could represent a safer alternative to current, synthetically produced cosmetics, research published in the...
Researchers discover self-assembling 2D and 3D materials
2D hexagonal sheet-like and 3D capsid structures based on atomically precise gold nanoclusters as guided by hydrogen bonding between the ligands. The inset in...
Researchers Quantify in High Speed a Viper’s Strike in Nature for the First Time
What factors determine the success/failure of a strike or escape in predator-prey relationships?Credit: Higham lab, UC Riverside
Feeding is paramount to the survival of almost...
Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not human conflict
Dust storm in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Eli Bou-Zeid
In August 2015, a dust storm blanketed large areas of seven Middle East nations in a haze...
Electron diffraction locates hydrogen atoms
Representation of the structure of a cobalt aluminophosphate, superimposed onto a map showing maxima (in yellow) associated with the hydrogen positions, after analysis of...
Biologists discover how viruses hijack cell’s machinery
Cryo-electron tomography shows how the bacterial cell is reorganized to resemble a more complicated plant or animal cell with a red nucleus-like compartment and...
Exercise … It does a body good: 20 minutes can act as anti-inflammatory
Each time we exercise, we are truly doing something good for our body on many levels, including at the immune cell level. Credit: Flickr/Yuichi...
