UMass Amherst Chemists Develop Nose-like Sensor Array to 'Smell' Cancer Diagnoses
In a pre-clinical non-small-cell lung cancer metastasis model in mice developed by Frank Jirik and colleagues at the University of Calgary...
A Celestial Witch’s Broom?
The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is...
Nuclear Power: Extracting Uranium from Seawater
The material, HiCap (from high-capacity), outperforms today's adsorbents, which perform surface retention of solid or gas molecules, atoms...
Non-Cytotoxic Nanosilver Structures Bring New Hope for Curing Infections
The obtained nanostructure is nontoxic to human cells, in contrast to the conventional silver nanoparticles, and possesses a spectacularly...
Hubble Spotted a Supernova in NGC 5806
Hubble sees a supernova explosion called SN 2004dg on the edge of NGC 5806, a spiral galaxy in...
Improved nanoparticles deliver drugs into brain
Real-time imaging of a rodent brain shows that nanoparticles coated with polyethylene-glycol (PEG) (green) penetrate farther within the...
New Method for Synthesis of Noble Metal-Based Nanoparticles on Various Substrates
Particularly tested for carbon based substrates such as carbon nanocabon tubes, the proposed method has enabled the synthesis of platinum-...
Kepler's Supernova Remnant: Was Kepler's Supernova Unusually Powerful?
In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky that was much brighter than Jupiter and dimmed over several weeks. This...
