A Closer Look At The Properties Of Sand
When we fill a bucket up with sand, flip it upside down, and remove the bucket to make a sand castle, we usually don’t think…
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Characterizing Long-Term Groundwater Conditions And Lithology For The Design Of Large-Scale Borehole Heat Exchangers
The Earth’s subsurface remains at a relatively stable temperature at a given depth despite daily and seasonal changes in the weather at the surface. Rock…
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Asteroids And Comets Shower Mars With Organics
Life as we know it is based on water and organic compounds. Studying how water and organics form, evolve and move within our Solar System…
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Observing Magnetically-Mediated Behavior In Lab Mice
The ability of animals to sense the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial behaviors such as navigation and orientation is well-established. For example, the use of…
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Artificial Nanodecoys For Hepatitis B
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection places patients at high risk of death due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and it remains a global…
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How Math Can Help Us Build Better Drugs
Every one of our bodies contains trillions of cells, each of which plays a specific role to ensure our physiology remains stable, a state called…
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Trading Reproductive Potential For Survival? How Acidification Could Affect A Key Crustacean In The Future Ocean
The climate is changing. This dire scenario is slowly starting to be felt all around the world, with global temperature averages increasing and climate patterns…
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Meta-Sulfamoyl N-Hydroxybenzamides As HDAC8-Selective Inhibitors
As a family of epigenetic enzymes, histone deacetylases (HDACs) can catalyze the removal of an acetyl group from N-acetyl lysine residues of histones and other…
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Current Knowledge Of Lepidoptera Genomes And Future Directions
Science is often advanced with the development of new technologies. Since the sequencing of the first human genome, there has been much progress made in…
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The Inactive X Chromosome Is Folded Like Origami By SMCHD1
The linear molecules of DNA that constitute our genome are wrapped around proteins called histones to form “chromatin.” To fit the nucleus, chromatin must be…
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Lead Iodide Nanosheets For Piezoelectric Energy Conversion And Strain Sensing
Harvesting ambient mechanical energy or sensing the mechanical signals based on nanomaterials for self-powered and flexible systems can provide potentially revolutionary advancements in energy technologies….
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