Engineers find bottlebrush copolymers can be tailored for applications

A microscopic polymer in the form of a common kitchen implement could give industry exquisite control…

Dayton Hamvention® Invites 2020 Award Nominations

Dayton Hamvention® is inviting nominations for its 2020 awards. Nominations are due by February 15, 2020.…

Newly developed nanoparticles help fight lung cancer in animal model

Scientists have reported a new approach to treating lung cancer with inhaled nanoparticles. Click…

DNA data offers scientific look at 500 years of extramarital sex in Western Europe

Researchers have put DNA evidence together with long-term genealogical data to explore questions of biological fatherhood…

Ocean studies look at microscopic diversity and activity across entire planet

Two new articles use samples and data collected during the Tara Oceans Expedition to analyze current…

There are variations in plankton biodiversity and activity from the equator to the poles

New results between 2009 and 2013 show that the diversity and functions of planktonic species in…

Butterflies take different paths to arrive at same color pattern

An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies in Panama was faced with a mystery:…

PIA23544: Hydaspis Chaos

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

Alpine rock axeheads became social and economic exchange fetishes in the Neolithic

Axeheads made out of Alpine rock had strong social and economic symbolic meaning in the Neolithic,…

Observing changes in the chirality of molecules in real time

Some molecules can exist in two mirror-image forms, similar to our hands. Although such so-called enantiomers…