Nanoparticles can save historic buildings
Many historical buildings were built of limestone, such as Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Limestone is easy to work with, but does not withstand...
Programmable bacteria to clean drinking water
Lauren Andrews, University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor and the Marvin and Eva Schlanger Faculty Fellow in the department of chemical engineering, has...
Will renaming carp help control them?
Illinois officials this month announced that Asian carp would now be called “copi” in an attempt to make the fish more desirable for...
Physicists work to shrink microchips with first one-dimensional helium model system
Microchips are everywhere, running computers and cars, and even helping people find lost pets. As microchips grow smaller, faster and capable of doing...
Engineered cells act like glue, could help heal wounds, regrow nerves
Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells...
All in how we say it, one word, one term at a time –...
Today’s installment marks the 1,200th entry on the Air Quality Matters blog. To mark this accomplishment, where content and context is concerned, I...
Link between recognizing our voice and feeling in control
Being able to recognize our own voice is a critical factor for our sense of control over our speech, according to a study...
Adults with blood cancers respond to booster, not initial dose of COVID-19 vaccine
People with hematologic malignancies—or blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—have an impaired immune system due to their disease and its treatment,...
