Thanks to a couple of Rice University engineers, a roadmap for converting carbon monoxide into acetic acid has been discovered.
A new recycling method may reduce enormous amounts of waste from the annual 100 million tons of multilayer plastic produced worldwide.
Drawing inspiration from the bacteria living in hydrothermal vents, scientists at Rice University developed a new process to produce hydrocarbons, a component used in drug and agrochemical production.
DNA is the code of life. In order to better understand life, scientists are seeking an explanation for its beginnings.
Researchers have found a way to create fiber materials that are capable of protecting "underlying areas from UV light," which helps to solve a greater problem when it comes to smart materials.
During Science LIVE with Roger Billings last week, Billings shared information about the special element, bismuth.
A new software package aims to aid drug design and biomedical research by making it easy to construct 3D images of proteins and other molecules using one of the world’s most powerful microscopes.
Researchers in Spain and Luxembourg recently proposed a computational method for reconstructing gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data to infer cellular identity.
Two scientific researchers at the Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) are studying how a particle that interacts with light may lead to revolutionary applications, such as the splitting of ammonia to produce hydrogen fuel and breaking apart and de-toxifying “forever” chemicals such as PFAS, can be used in firefighting spray and Teflon pan coatings.
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Chicago have determined in a study published in The Planetary Science Journal that some planets may shine bright like diamonds because they are, in fact, diamonds.
UMass researchers use Cyro-EM microscopy to understand ribosome’s two stages of protein synthesis
University of California, Riverside researchers have discovered that, during photosynthesis, plants can protect themselves from solar surges and achieve near quantum efficiency when converting light into energy by absorbing specific colors of light.
Stanford chemists have developed a new tool that shuttles unwanted cell surface proteins to their deaths.
As lithium-ion batteries reach their limits for improvements, Stanford researchers looked to new electrolyte design to improve lithium metal battery performance with some success.
UCLA engineers have designed a thin adhesive film that could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a powerful health monitoring system.
MIT chemists have developed a protocol to reduce the time it takes to generate synthetic proteins.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., have turned Escherichia coli (E. coli) into a digital display, by encoding a synthetic genetic circuit in its DNA.
Stanford chemists are developing new synthetic forms of a rare marine molecule that show promise for treating cancer and eradicating HIV.
The days haven’t always been 24 hours long, according to a study published on Feb. 5 in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
Researchers have discovered a molecular switch that can stop inflammation related to aging and diabetes.