
Snow Fleas Pack a Chemical Weapon
The cold-weather loving insect produces a never-before-seen chlorinated natural product to deter predators
The cold-weather loving insect produces a never-before-seen chlorinated natural product to deter predators
Compared with glucose, fructose activates brain regions that enhance the psychological reward of eating
The process could be used to print structures with applications in energy storage and tissue regeneration
Rafael Moure-Erasa resigned under White House Pressure amid charges of mismanagement
And researchers have engineered a common bacteria to inexpensively create the snakebite treatment
Chemical engineers flooded with the foam pieces figured out how to transform them into electrodes that work better than conventional ones
A plastic film that mimics the microsized lenses in the compound eye of a moth could help boost solar cell efficiency and sharpen image sensors' views
The Colorado potato beetle, an "international super pest," has been stopped in its tracks by preventing the insect from synthesizing essential proteins
Immune cells in mice with lupus symptoms have overactive metabolisms, so scientists inhibited two metabolic pathways and succeeded in reversing lupus symptoms in mice
The action follows a campaign by blogger Food Babe, even though there is no scientific evidence showing that the additive is harmful in small quantities
Certain damaging reactions that can lead to melanoma-causing mutations may take hours to evolve and mostly occur after you get out of the sun
A pair of semiconducting polymers helps create a pleasant white light that can both illuminate a room and transfer information
A handheld Raman spectroscopy probe can detect cancer cells that infiltrate healthy tissue
A new technique helps to identify unreported fluorinated compounds in fire-suppressing foams
Microsized tubes can now zip around in a mouse’s stomach and deliver cargo, suggesting the potential for improved functions of nanoparticle drug carriers and imaging agents
Sugar-like molecules self-assemble into a nano fiber web around bone cancer cells but spare healthy ones
Scientists sprayed graphene precursors into hot solvent to form pom-pom-like particles suitable for battery electrodes
Controversial PBDEs have started to disappear in bay sediment and wildlife after industry phaseouts and government bans
The chemical industry had fought for recycling of styrofoam materials to stave off prohibition
A mixture of volatile organic compounds and histamine, a compound we produce during immune responses, could enable cheaper pest detection and control
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