Nearly everyone is familiar with the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), otherwise known as Teflon, the brand name used by the chemical company DuPont. Famous for being "non-sticky" and water repellent, PTFE is a dry lubricant ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 17, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Inspired by a personal experience, a University of Arkansas economist examined the relationship between corruption and regulatory compliance – on both a theoretical and empirical level – and found, surprisingly, ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

May 07, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —Using computer models, a graduate student at the University of Arkansas has collaborated with scientists in the United States and Europe to observe a new magnetic state of bismuth ferrite.

Physics - Condensed Matter

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Business researchers at the University of Arkansas have conducted an in-depth study of "sequential" pricing of retail products in both online and brick-and-mortar stores and found that the ability to set ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Apr 30, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —In most jobs, performance dictates employment, promotion and prestige. Two University of Arkansas education reform researchers, Robert Maranto and Patrick Wolf, looked at "impossible jobs," such as police commissioners ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 24, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —A local power failure in Ohio ten years ago caused a series of cascading power failures that resulted in a massive blackout that affected 50 million people and caused billions of dollars in ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 19, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 3 |

(Phys.org) —More students who used vouchers in a Washington, D.C., program to attend private schools graduated from high school than students in public schools who did not receive the vouchers, according to a University ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

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(Phys.org) —Biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have encapsulated two types of protein antigens in chitosan and demonstrated that the combined material enables or improves three ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Dendrochronologists have shown that tree-ring data produce a remarkably accurate history of droughts and other climate changes. Combined with reliable drought indices and historical descriptions of climate conditions, dendrochronology ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Feb 18, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 2

(Phys.org)—More than 75 percent of Americans believe they will see a female president in their lifetime, according to a comprehensive national survey conducted by two entities of the University of Arkansas ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 07, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—After years of experimentation, researchers at the University of Arkansas have solved a complex, decades-old problem in membrane biochemistry. The consequence of their work will give scientists more information ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jan 24, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Americans believe higher education institutions and the federal government share almost equal responsibility for student loan debt in the country. This is one preliminary result from a comprehensive national research survey ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

In today's dynamic global economic environment, companies or countries consider everything when it comes to expanding their economies.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jan 17, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—When an asteroid streaked across the sky over California and Nevada and exploded last spring, scientists from across the world rushed to the scene to recover as many pieces of the space rock ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jan 17, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

Business researchers at the University of Arkansas and colleagues at the University of South Carolina have launched a major project examining Walmart's 7-year-old sustainability effort. Although intended ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Dec 18, 2012 not rated yet 0