Boron Shines A Light On The Dark Side Of Inflammation

Inflammation, our bodies’ response to infection and injury, is generally regarded as a protective response that occurs to eliminate the offending stimulus and to promote…
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Inflammation, our bodies’ response to infection and injury, is generally regarded as a protective response that occurs to eliminate the offending stimulus and to promote…
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Every now and then, car- or house-sized bodies entering Earth’s atmosphere from outer space meet a fiery end in a final blaze and remind us…
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Geology tries to understand the past by looking at the contemporary world. There is the famous phrase of uniformitarianism “Present is the key to the…
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Back in April the EU voted to completely ban the use of clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam; all part of a group of chemicals called neonicotinoids – a widely used group…
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Methane is an important ‘greenhouse gas’; that is, a gas that plays a role in earth’s heat balance and hence our climate. In fact, molecule…
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The Academy Award winner Anna Magnani once told her make-up artist: “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me my life to grow them.” [F1]…
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Energy metabolism is the essential group of chemical reactions that generates the energy that maintains our cells alive. But that isn’t all energy metabolism does!…
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Nanowires provide novel mechanisms for scaling down semiconductor electronics [1]. Semiconducting nanowires have electronically switchable characteristics suitable for simple readout that is appropriate for sensing….
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An international team of physicists reports that they have successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate in space for the first time. In the study published this past…
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Though scientists have long known that Africa was home to unique species of dinosaurs not found anywhere else, little is known about how they got…
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Nowadays, the industry is more and more demanding of many metals. Among these many metals are rare earth elements, and some of these elements (e.g.,…
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