University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on the world's climate by mak ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 05, 2013 4.8 / 5 (9) 14 |

Fires in eastern Russia are commonplace at this time of year. Both wildfires and those deliberately set for agricultural purposes are often seen in the Amur region of Russia. This image from the Aqua satellite ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

May 03, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers at Wake Forest University's Organic Electronics group have come up with a novel solution to one of the biggest technological barriers facing the organic semiconductor industry today. Oana Jurchescu, an assistant ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 25, 2013 4.6 / 5 (10) 0 |

Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence their ability to form clouds over the ocean. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 22, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have, for the first time, developed a system that can determine which types of air particles that pollute the atmosphere are the most prevalent ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 20, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A team of scientists and surgeons from Newcastle are developing a new nasal spray from a marine microbe to help clear chronic sinusitis.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 18, 2013 4.7 / 5 (6) 0

The last time Rebecca Braslau got a bad case of poison oak, she found herself pondering the chemical structure of urushiol, the toxic oil in poison oak and its relatives, poison ivy and poison sumac (all species of Toxicodendron).

Chemistry - Other

Nov 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

Applying pesticides is no simple task. With dozens of manufacturers producing dozens of different types of spray technology—each with its own nozzle type, flow rate, and pressure setting range—the equipment ...

Biology - Other

Nov 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Epiomed Therapeutics Inc. of Irvine, Calif., have signed an agreement to develop and commercialize a NASA-crafted, fast-acting nasal spray to fight motion sickness.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 15, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

When strong winds blow over ocean waves, small droplets of sea spray rise into the air, enhancing the exchange of heat, mass, and energy between the air and the sea. How effective sea spray is at mediating each of these dynamics ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

Spray paint training and designing next-generation power plants don't seem, at first glance, to have much to do with one another. But, the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory recently partnered with ...

Technology - Software

Sep 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

With more than half of all adults allergic to poison ivy, oak and sumac, scientists are reporting an advance toward an inexpensive spray that could reveal the presence of the rash-causing toxic oil on the ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- F. Sherwood Rowland, the Nobel prize-winning chemist who sounded the alarm on the thinning of the Earth's ozone layer and crusaded against the use of man-made chemicals that were harming earth's atmospheric blanket, ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

Carrying a gun in bear country doesn't mean you're more protected in the event of a bear encounter, according to new research out of Brigham Young University.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 56

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have solved one of the printing industry's greatest challenges - whether a liquid thread will break up into drops.

Physics - Soft Matter

Feb 20, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1 |