The American Chemical Society’s ACS on Campus is bringing career development workshops for scientists and engineers to Sandia National Laboratories’ postdoctoral fellows and interns, only the second time the program has come to a national laboratory.
The British government has announced that it will make publicly funded scientific research available for anyone to read for free, accepting recommendations in a report on open access by Dame Janet Finch. This will likely see a major increase in
Most people buy cornstarch to make custard or gravy, but Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger have used it to solve a longstanding physics problem with a substance known to generations of Dr. Seuss readers as “Oobleck."
A new method of drug testing developed by researchers at RTI International makes it possible to detect a wider range of synthetically-produced ‘designer’ drugs.
Massive explosions on the sun unleash radiation that could kill astronauts in space. Now, researchers have developed a warning system capable of forecasting the radiation from these violent solar storms nearly three hours (166 minutes) in advance.
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH and Olympus America Inc. CENTER VALLEY, Pa. have signed a nonexclusive worldwide licensing agreement allowing Carl Zeiss to access an extensive portfolio of patents held by Olympus.
The first artificial molecules whose chirality can be rapidly switched from a right-handed to a left-handed orientation with a beam of light have been created.
Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot.