Platinum meets its match in quantum dots from coal: Rice University's cheap hybrid outperforms rare metal as fuel-cell catalyst

Rice University scientists combined graphene quantum dots, graphene oxide, nitrogen and boron into a catalyst capable of replacing platinum...
Ad-REIC vaccine: A magic bullet for cancer treatment

A "Magic Bullet" for Cancer Gene Therapy
New Topical Hemostatic Agent: Neutral Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogel

Hemostasis in a rat liver laceration model. Incision was made on the left hepatic lobe. Bleeding decreased immediately following...
Cold Atom Laboratory Chills Atoms to New Lows

Artist's concept of an atom chip for use by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space...
Rosetta to Deploy Lander on November 12

Image depicts the primary landing site on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko chosen for the European Space...
Production of Anticorrosive Chromate Nanocoatings in Iran
Rosetta to deploy lander on 12 November
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November.
World's smallest reference material is big plus for nanotechnology

A structural model of a typical silicon nanocrystal (yellow) was stabilized within an organic shell of cyclohexane (blue).