Pig-Pen effect: Mixing skin oil and ozone can produce a personal pollution cloud

When ozone and skin oils meet, the resulting reaction may help remove ozone from an indoor…

Embracing bioinformatics in gene banks

Scientists have explored, within a perspective paper, the upcoming challenges and possibilities of the future of…

Protein linked to aggressive skin cancer

Almost 300,000 people worldwide develop malignant melanoma each year. The disease is the most serious form…

Artificial DNA can control release of active ingredients from drugs

A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times: What was…

Teens who can describe negative emotions can stave off depression

Teenagers who can describe their negative emotions in precise and nuanced ways are better protected against…

Utrafast magnetism: Electron-phonon interactions examined at BESSY II

How fast can a magnet switch its orientation and what are the microscopic mechanisms at play?…

Synthetic bacterial memory circuits enable microbial diagnostics for sensing biomolecules in the gut

Millions of people take capsules of probiotics with the goal of improving their digestion, but what…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 6/28/2019

NRCSD (NanoRacks External Cygnus CubeSat Deployer): The crew reviewed procedures for the upcoming NRCSD-16 installation currently…

Flood in Russia

Southwestern areas of Russia were hit by two months’ worth of rain in a single day,…

Is the lean start-up method really universally applicable?

After Eric Ries’ publication of The Lean Startup in 2011, the underlying method quickly spread among…