y father wrote twelve stories and two short novels describing the adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club. The order in which these works were written, starting in 1960, is as follows: The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake (1960)Night Rescue … Read more
UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn’t react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a “safe” liquid fuel. Firefighters trying … Read more
Credt: luismmolina/Getty Images A team of researchers from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE), Lausanne (UNIL), the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the Vaud University Hospital (CHUV) in Switzerland have discovered how to prolong the functionality of CAR-T cells by inhibiting … Read more
Specifically, the research team witnessed the interference pattern of a single atom caused by a common geometric structure in chemistry called a ‘conical intersection’. Conical intersections are known throughout chemistry and are vital to rapid photo-chemical processes such as light … Read more
In a groundbreaking study published today in Nature, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and The University of Western Australia and Professor Jose … Read more
A rendering of the new synthetic metamaterial with 4D capabilities designed by scientists at the University of Missouri. It includes the ability to control energy waves on the surface of a solid material. Guoliang Huang July 31, 2023Contact: Courtney Perrett, … Read more
Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal aging.
The rat kidney was peculiarly beautiful — an edgeless viscera about the size of a quarter, gemstone-like and gleaming as if encased in pure glass. It owed its veneer to a frosty descent in liquid nitrogen vapor to minus 150-degrees … Read more
A ribosome (centre) builds a new protein (red) from messenger RNA (multicoloured).Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library For most of the history of life on Earth, genetic information has been carried in a code that specifies just 20 amino acids. Amino … Read more
Turbulence is all around us. It’s in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides of cars, churning the blood in your heart after the valve snaps closed. Yet we … Read more