Researchers at NYU have developed a way to use light to precisely direct how microscopic particles assemble into crystals. The findings, published today (February 24) in the Cell Press journal Chem, ...

Not all fiber works the same. Discover how viscosity, fermentation, and microbiome diversity determine whether dietary fiber ...

Paul Karason was an American man who became known around the world because the colour of his skin turned a deep blue shade. For most of his life, he had light skin and freckles, but after years of ...

This study reports an important and novel finding that TENT5A, an enzyme involved in fine-tuning poly(A) tail length on selected mRNAs, is required for proper enamel mineralization in mice. The ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and ...

ISO/TS 17466 (Use of UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy in the evaluation of cadmium chalcogenide colloidal quantum dots, 2015) defines a direct relationship between the first excitonic absorption peak ...

Nanotechnology could be a new solution in art restoration, using nanoparticles for effective cleaning and stabilization with ...

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the ...

Nehemiah Colyer at his old high school, Parkway West. There’s a square-ish census tract in west St. Louis County that, at ground level, feels typical. At both its northern edge (which is Highway 40) ...

Malaria is a major public health problem in the developing world owing to its high rates of morbidity and mortality. Of all the malarial parasites that infect humans, Plasmodium falciparum is most ...

Respiratory supercomplex formation relieves molecular strain of mitochondrial membranes and reshapes global protein motions, linking membrane reorganization to respiratory function.