A Way to Make Better Catalysts for Meds, Industry and Materials.

As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient method with the potential to convert the major components found in natural gas into useable fuels and chemicals—opening the door to cheaper, more abundant energy and materials with much lower emissions.

The challenge is the drug aids efficiency but raises incidences of death.

It turns out kids can understand complex scientific concepts – like natural selection – far beyond what anyone would have expected.

The University of Delaware Library will present two workshops on research funding -- “Research Funding Online” and “Funding Sources for Graduate Students” -- during the spring semester.

Here in 21st century America, we all know that anything a man can do, a woman can do just as well, right? Well it turns out when it comes to math and science, we don’t all know that, and this bias could be costing women valuable career opportunities.

Microarray analysis - a complex technology commonly used in many applications such as discovering genes, disease diagnosis, drug development and toxicological research - has just become easier and more user-friendly. A new advanced software program called Eureka-DMA provides a cost-free, graphical interface that allows bioinformaticians and bench-biologists alike to initiate analyses, and to investigate the data produced by microarrays. The program was developed by Ph.D. student Sagi Abelson of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Supported by a $953,958 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers at the University of California San Diego will develop a sophisticated new biosensor that can protect the nation’s water supplies from a wide range of toxins, including heavy metals and other poisons.

UH researcher says 'Google Flu Trend' shows where 'big data' analysis can go wrong.

Most modern electronics, from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to wearable technologies and computer monitors, use tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient.