Is The Northern White Rhino About To Become Extinct: Can The Species Be Saved?
The recent news of the death of the last northern white rhino has caused a global outcry. Known as Sudan, the only remaining male rhino…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
Powerful Dehalogenation Tool: A Simple Route To Graft Carbon Materials With Well-Defined Open Pores
Porous carbon materials (PCMs) hold great scientific and technological importance due to their ability to allow gases and liquids to penetrate their entire bulk.(1) They…
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Patient Preference And Timing For Exercise In Breast Cancer Care
Treatments for cancer vary and depend on many individual factors. However, there is one universal recommendation for cancer patients: avoid inactivity (1). Several national and…
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What Makes Informed Consent Informative? Patient, Caregiver, And Provider Perspectives
“Sign on the dotted line.” We practice signatures for a variety of day-to-day activities. We sign receipts to approve a transfer of funds; greeting cards…
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Tracking The Use Of Garbage In Nest-Building Among Bird Species
Nest-building behavior has fascinated scientists for ages. It is known that this behavior is not driven entirely by instinct; individual quality, experience, and ability to…
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A Challenge For Making Hard-to-fly Stuffs Fly: An Introduction Of Simple And Effective Methods For Protein MALDI-TOF MS
Mass spectrometry (MS) has been a powerful tool for analyzing the molecular weights of the biological components comprising our body. Biochemists routinely utilize the information…
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The Fear Of Poison (Iophobia)
The fear of poison, known as Iophobia, is the irrational fear that you will be poisoned. The word Iophobia comes from the Greek word io…
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The Platypus Could Help Save Humanity From Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
The duck-billed platypus is a mammal native to Australia, and a team of scientists from Australia’s science agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)…
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The Smallest Ocean In The World
The smallest ocean in the world is the Arctic Ocean, it is only 1.5 times as big as the United States at 5.4 million square…
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CO2 Capture Via Semiclathrates At Ambient Temperature
Global warming is a worldwide issue caused by the increasing greenhouse gas emissions due to human-induced activities. In order to control the CO2 emission in…
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek: The Father Of Microbiology
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, considered the father of microbiology, was a key scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology during the late 17th…
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