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  Researchers create one of the smallest nanoparticle stabilized nanoemulsions with new technique

  4 hours ago

  MIE Assistant Professor Sushant Anand and his research associates have had multiple breakthroughs with their work on oil-water mixtures or "emulsions." Now, the researchers have taken their research to a new level by creating ...

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  Detecting metabolites at close range

  Jun 22, 2018

  A novel concept for a biosensor of the metabolite lactate combines an electron transporting polymer with lactate oxidase, which is the enzyme that specifically catalyzes the oxidation of lactate. Lactate is associated with ...

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  Research team uncovers lost images from the 19th century

  Jun 22, 2018

  Art curators will be able to recover images on daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates, after a team of scientists led by Western University learned how to use light to see through degradation ...

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  How community structure affects the resilience of a network

  Jun 22, 2018 report

  Network theory is a method for analyzing the connections between nodes in a system. One of the most compelling aspects of network theory is that discoveries related to one field, such as cellular biology, can be abstracted ...

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  European eels found to suffer muscle damage due to cocaine in the water

  Jun 22, 2018 report

  A team of researchers from the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Salerno has found that eels exposed to very small amounts of cocaine in the water suffer health problems. In their paper published in Science ...

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  Chemists report biorenewable, biodegradable plastic alternative

  Jun 22, 2018

  Colorado State University polymer chemists have taken another step toward a future of high-performance, biorenewable, biodegradable plastics.

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  Receptor networks underpin plant immunity

  Jun 22, 2018

  Fresh insights into plant immunity amount to a new field of discovery that could advance the next generation of disease-resistant crops.

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  CryoEM study captures opioid signaling in the act

  Jun 22, 2018

  Opioid drugs like morphine and fentanyl are a mainstay of modern pain medicine. But they also cause constipation, are highly addictive, and can lead to fatal respiratory failure if taken at too high a dose. Scientists have ...

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  Plants have unique lock to control expression of genes, study finds

  Jun 22, 2018

  Purdue University scientists have discovered evidence that the repressive structures that plants use to keep genes turned off is built with a potential self-destruct switch. The findings offer insight into ways to control ...

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  OMG, the water's warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzle

  Jun 22, 2018

  A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates.