New MOF Vaccines Could Expand Access to Immunization and Reduce Global Health Care Costs

Many vaccines become ineffective when exposed to room temperature or heat. This challenge can prevent patients from accessing lifesaving immunizations and increase the risk of global pandemics. During the 68th Annual Meeting of the American...
12-Jul-2018 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

X-ray Diffraction Method Used to Examine Collagen in the Brain, Heart, and T. rex Fossils

A laboratory at the Illinois Institute of Technology is using fiber diffraction to examine tissue structures in the human brain and heart, as well as in T. rex fossils. Few researchers use this type of X-ray diffraction because of the time and labor...
13-Jul-2018 9:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Computer Model Predicts How Fracturing Metallic Glass Releases Energy at the Atomic Level

Metallic glasses are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications; however, the difficulties associated with predicting how much energy these materials release when they fracture is slowing down development of metallic glass-based...
19-Jul-2018 10:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Solutions to Water Challenges Reside at the Interface

Leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could address global clean water accessibility.
17-Jul-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Cost-Effective Instrument Measures Molecular Dynamics on a Picosecond Timescale

Studying the photochemistry has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the human body and, alternatively, can provide “photo-protection” by dispersing extra energy. To better understand the dynamics of these...
16-Jul-2018 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Exploding Waves from Colliding Dissipative Pulses

The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. These waves, known as dissipative pulses are driving experimental studies in a variety of...
16-Jul-2018 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

High Vinculin Levels Help Keep Aging Fruit Fly Hearts Young

In the heart, aging can disrupt the protein network within muscle cells that move blood around the body. However, a new discovery in how heart muscles maintain their shape in fruit flies sheds light on the crucial relationship between cardiac...
11-Jul-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Newly Discovered Properties of Ferroelectric Crystal Shed Light on Emerging Branch of Materials

Ferroelectric materials are behind some of the most advanced technology available today. Findings that ferroelectricity can be observed in materials that exhibit other spontaneous transitions have given rise to a new class of materials, known as...
6-Jul-2018 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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