Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Monday, June 29, 2015

For hikers, football players, endurance athletes, and a growing range of elite and recreational exercisers, the beist approach to preventing potentially serious reductions in blood sodium level is to drink when thirsty, according to 

Saturday, June 27, 2015

By studying iron extracted from cores drilled in rocks similar to these in Karijini National Park, Western Australia, UW-Madison researchers determined that half of the iron atoms had originated in shallow oceans

Friday, June 26, 2015

One of the fun things about science is it allows people to be prophets without the need to grow a big beard and walk around the desert in a robe.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Astronomers have detected carbon smog permeating the interstellar atmospheres of early galaxies, confirming that these ancient galaxies were mostly dust free

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Recent studies suggest that iron-sulfur (Fe-S) proteins may be unexpectedly abundant and functionally diverse in mammalian cells, but their identification still remains difficult. The use of informatics along with traditiona

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are, as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor-intensive and ecologically devastating process.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Women are being urged to eat a varied balanced diet to reduce their exposure to cadmium, after a major study linked the metal to reduced bone density.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

So perhaps there is some truth in the old legends of the underworld reeking of brimstone (or sulphur, as it is now called)?

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Physicists have cooled molecules of sodium potassium, each consisting of a single sodium and potassium atom, to a temperature of 500 nanokelvins.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Metal alloys containing copper can destroy human norovirus, according to a paper published online ahead of print on May 15, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 

Monday, June 8, 2015

Everyone talks about graphene as if it’ll solve all of the world’s problems. In simple terms, graphene, is a thin layer of pure carbon; it is a single, tightly packed layer of carbon 

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Scientists have found new ways to reduce mercury in wetlands, providing hope that Sacramento-area waterways can be decontaminated of the potentially toxic element