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New Screening Approach Uncovers Potential Alternative Drug Therapies for Neuroblastoma
May 23, 2013 — Nearly two-thirds of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma -- a common tumor that forms in the nerve cells of children -- cannot be cured using tumor-killing cancer drugs. A new study reveals a new ... > full story -
Stitching Defects Into World’s Thinnest Semiconductor
May 23, 2013 — Researchers have grown high-quality crystals of molybdenum disulfide, the world's thinnest semiconductor, and studied how these crystals stitch together at the atomic scale to form continuous sheets, ... > full story -
Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection
May 23, 2013 — In an age when microbial pathogens are growing increasingly resistant to the conventional antibiotics used to tamp down infection, scientists have synthesized a potent new class of compounds capable ... > full story -
Spheres Can Form Squares
May 23, 2013 — Everybody who has tried to stack oranges in a box knows that a regular packing of spheres in a flat layer naturally leads to a hexagonal pattern, where each sphere is surrounded by six neighbours in ... > full story -
Detecting Mirror Molecules: New Technique Reliably Tells Left-Handed from Right-Handed Variant of a Compound
May 22, 2013 — Physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures -- greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important, though time-consuming, ... > full story -
Tropical Upper Atmosphere 'Fingerprint' of Global Warming
May 22, 2013 — The winds of the quasibiennial oscillation in the tropical upper atmosphere have greatly weakened at some altitudes over the last six decades, according to a new study. The finding is consistent with ... > full story -
Carbon Capture: Making Use of Minerals
May 22, 2013 — Ammonium salts could provide a viable way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via carbon mineralization, studies ... > full story -
New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
May 22, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale -- meaning the films are only one atom thick. The technique can be used to create ... > full story -
Inexpensive, Accurate Way to Detect Prostate Cancer: At-Home Urine Tests
May 22, 2013 — Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to new ... > full story -
Volcanoes Cause Climate Gas Concentrations to Vary
May 22, 2013 — Trace gases and aerosols are major factors influencing the climate. With the help of highly complex installations, such as MIPAS on board of the ENVISAT satellite, researchers try to better ... > full story
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