The trend towards automated high content assays, particularly for systems biology and drug discovery, has stimulated the development of automated fluorescence microscopy systems to image sample arrays. Today's ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

May 07, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Parts of the UK are at greater risk of invasion by non-native aquatic species than previously thought, according to new research. The first to include human factors in models used to predict where invasive species will arrive ...

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 1

Precision agriculture promises to make farming more efficient and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security, according to a new study published in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statis ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 25, 2013 not rated yet 1

For nature and chemists alike, making atmospheric nitrogen available for the formation of more complex nitrogen compounds is both essential and difficult. In the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Paul C ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

One of the most southerly populations of polar bears in the world – and the best studied – is struggling to cope with climate-induced changes to sea ice, new research reveals. Based on over 10 years' ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Carbon-based nanomaterials have unique properties that make them useful for many technical applications, including lightweight construction, electronics, energy generation, environmental technology, ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 3 |

(Phys.org)—They can absorb vast amounts of oil or organic compounds, yet they are nearly as light as air: highly porous solids made of a three-dimensional network of carbon nanotubes. In the journal Angewandte Ch ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 26, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—When gluing things together, both surfaces usually need to be dry. Gluing wet surfaces or surfaces under water is a challenge. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Korean scientists have now in ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

The annual duck hunting season in the United States is traditionally big business, but while bird numbers are rising faster than they have for decades, the number of hunters continues to fall. Far from being good news for ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 07, 2013 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Irradiation with light is an established method for initiating polymerization or crosslinking (curing) in the production of plastics. American researchers are now using light to retroactively ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Feb 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Programmed cell death, or apoptosis, occurs tens of millions of times every day in every human body. Researchers in South Korea have devised an easy method to detect apoptotic cells by fluorescence, as they ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jan 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Carbon nanotubes resemble asbestos fibers in their form. Unfortunately, long, pure nanotubes also seem to have asbestos-like pathogenicity. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a European resear ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jan 21, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Raman spectroscopy has recently undergone major advances in the area of deep non-invasive characterisation of biological tissues. The progress stems from the develop­ment of spatially offset Raman spectroscopy ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jan 18, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—How can pharmaceuticals be safely carried through the acidic environment of the stomach and into the intestines? A team of Canadian and Australian researchers has developed a novel nanotransporter ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jan 17, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

As digital cameras become better and cheaper, ecologists are turning these ubiquitous consumer devices into scientific tools to study how forests are responding to climate change. And, they say, digital cameras could be a ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 19, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0