Asian-Americans Face Barriers to Healthy Aging

Older Asian-American immigrants are healthier and happier if they are socially active, connected to their families and communities and are able to maintain their cultural values while adapting to western culture, according to a new Rutgers study.
18-Jul-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

How Gold Nanoparticles Could Improve Solar Energy Storage

Star-shaped gold nanoparticles, coated with a semiconductor, can produce hydrogen from water over four times more efficiently than other methods – opening the door to improved storage of solar energy and other advances that could boost renewable...
10-Jul-2018 9:45 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Geological Records Reveal Sea-Level Rise Threatens UK Salt Marshes, Study Says

Sea-level rise will endanger valuable salt marshes across the United Kingdom by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, according to an international study co-authored by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick professor.
12-Jul-2018 5:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Protein Data Bank at Rutgers Benefits Global Health, Science, Economy

When Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with end-stage metastatic melanoma in 2015, he began taking a drug developed in part using 3D molecular data. Insights like these into drug discovery and other fields of scientific research are possible using the...
21-Jun-2018 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Climate Change Means Fish Are Moving Faster Than Fishing Rules, Rutgers-led Study Says

Climate change is forcing fish species to shift their habitats faster than the world’s system for allocating fish stocks, exacerbating international fisheries conflicts, according to a study led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick researcher....
14-Jun-2018 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Rutgers Researchers Develop Automated Robotic Device For Faster Blood Testing

Rutgers researchers have created an automated blood drawing and testing device that provides rapid results, potentially improving the workflow in hospitals and other health-related institutions to allow health care practitioners to spend more time...
13-Jun-2018 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Rutgers Physicists Create New Class of 2D Artificial Materials

In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature. For decades, scientists thought it would be impossible to prove the theory by Philip W. Anderson, who...
11-Jun-2018 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

NASA Funds Rutgers Scientists’ Pursuit of the Origins of Life

What are the origins of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere? Did “protein nanomachines” evolve here before life began to catalyze and support the development of living things? Could the same thing have happened on Mars, the moons of Jupiter and...
5-Jun-2018 12:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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