Published by Donghai Liang Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA These findings are described in the article entitled Use of high-resolution metabolomics for the identification of metabolic signals associated with traffic-related air pollution, recently published in the […]

Energy storage is one of the most important aspects of our highly demanding society. In the last decades, the search for appropriate energy storage materials has become of paramount importance to fulfill the increasing needs of electrical power. As such, […]

S. aureus is a type of bacterium that is carried in the nose of 30% of healthy adults and can cause diseases ranging from mild to severe. It is categorized as a serious-threat pathogen, especially because of its low susceptibility […]

Barrier islands systems, briefly described as long and relatively narrow sandy islands parallel to the shore and separated from it by a backbarrier lagoon, represent almost 10% of all continental shorelines. Most of the US eastern coastline features such systems, […]

Does power corrupt? This is a common saying, and it is often brought up when people with power in our society do something immoral. For example, it comes up when well-known politicians are caught in corruption scandals, or when rich […]

Published by Stephanie Greene Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta The findings described in this article are from the Master’s thesis of Stephanie Nichols (now Stephanie Greene), and the article Introducing a new geochemical screen for identifying […]

Four species of the horseshoe crab, the Atlantic horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) and three additional Asian species, have been integral to the safe manufacturing of injectable medications for the past 40 years. Populations of all four extant species of horseshoe […]

Many people love a “rush” – lines for good rollercoasters are rarely short. Some people really love a rush and do things like skydiving, base-jumping or climbing mountain cliffs “free solo” without safety lines. Unfortunately, some people get that rush […]

U.S. federal agencies exist to accomplish specific missions; for example, the Department of Defense (DoD) ensures national security, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) explores space. To execute these missions, agencies may develop large, costly systems like aircraft, […]

Distance measurement is an important challenge in astronomy. Between the parallax of nearby stars and the redshift of the most distant galaxies, there are a lot of steps. With the Dark Energy rush, several large astronomical surveys are trying to […]