Just a little TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography ) can separate the many lipids formed within a microbial cell. Chromatography is a standard analytical chemistry strategy to distinguish different components of a mixture, such ...

In our study, we interviewed 16 full-time U.S. college students about the roles of drugs in their leisure pursuits, productivity patterns, and lastly, how drugs impacted their perceptions of the social order and the self. ...

This is a microscopic view of a hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue sample taken from the prostate of a mouse. The estrogen receptor gene, ER-, is "knocked out, a process that inactivates a specific gene, to interrogate ...

We proposed a novel manufacturing process of metal nanowires from bulk material: the Laser-assisted Draw Casting (LDC). LDC can find many applications in stretchable or transparent conductors, spanning the meter scale, ...

I snapped this photo at the edge of Marina Reservoir near Singapores downtown core. Perhaps you might know Singapore for its unique architecture (there's nothing subtle about that Marina Bay Sands building on the left), ...

Ansai waist drummers perform at a Red Tourism site a few miles north of Yan’an city, China. Red Tourism (hongse luyou) refers to tourism of the People’s Republic of China in which people visit tourist spots with historical ...

Carbon Dots are an astonishing class of fluorescence (glowing) materials with numerous advantages over the conventional materials owing to their water solubility, higher brightness, stability and low toxicity. This image ...

At first glance this image is unremarkable: a juvenile fish sits atop a substrate ignoring the light and the camera. What is remarkable is that the substrate is made up of large(8cm diameter) ice platelets anchored to the ...

I was fascinated one day while performing an experiment on the Single Molecule Total Internal Microscope. As I Switched off the lights of the room, and powered my green laser I saw a nice beautiful diffraction pattern of ...

Imagine peering through the helmet visor as this firefighter does. Much like our current understanding of cognitive functioning of firefighters in live-fire maneuvers,the view is clouded. This not only depicts the view ...