2016
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- Solar smart window could offer privacy and light control on demand (video)
- Improving cryopreservation for a longer-lasting blood supply
- Fast-cooking dry beans provide more protein, iron than ‘slower’ varieties
- Salty snow could affect air pollution in the Arctic
- Controversial drug approval stirs deep concerns — and hope
- Shoring up the power grid — with DIY scrap-metal batteries
- Detecting potentially harmful mycotoxins in beer
- Rewritable material could help reduce paper waste
- Smallest-reported artificial virus could help advance gene therapy
- Start-ups use chemistry to tackle challenges from roll-up TVs to neglected diseases
- Shadows reveal how insects walk on water (video)
- Tiny gold particles could be the key to developing a treatment for pancreatic cancer
- Biomass heating could get a ‘green’ boost with the help of fungi
- The latest science on Zika and the challenges ahead
- Cutting food waste, but tossing more packaging: Our plastics conundrum
- Test improves detection of proteins in starch; aids in ‘gluten-free’ labeling
- Salty snow could affect air pollution in the Arctic
- How protein fragments associated with Alzheimer’s could trigger Parkinson’s
- Reducing gas flares — and pollution — from oil production
- Still wary of heparin from China, U.S. considers options
- Toxins in e-cig vapor increase with heat and device use
- Gene therapy in a droplet could treat eye diseases, prevent blindness
- Reducing carbon emissions using waste marble powder
- Graphene-infused packaging is a million times better at blocking moisture
- Dandelions could be a sustainable source of rubber
- Hops could help reduce breast cancer risk
- Decoding the glass ‘genome’ contributes to new functional materials
- Protecting grapes from pests by boosting their natural immunity
- Changing the federal legal status of marijuana could boost research, ease confusion
- What happens to hydraulic fracturing wastewater on cropland
- Monitoring sun exposure with a portable paper sensor
- Investigating how ‘chemo brain’ develops in cancer patients
- Harnessing solar and wind energy in one device could power the ‘Internet of Things’
- Measuring the airborne toxicants urban bicyclists inhale
- Unique CSI lab aims to solve crimes against wildlife
- Hot tubs and swimming pools are not as clean as you may think
- 3-D-bioprinted placenta could lead to new treatments for preeclampsia
- Ensuring artisanal Parmigiano Reggiano cheese is the real deal
- Antidote to opioid drug overdoses could become more accessible
- Making biodiesel with used cooking oil and a microwave
- Robots could get touchy with self-powered smart skin
- Recyclable, sugar-derived foam — a renewable alternative to traditional polyurethanes?
- What Flint’s water crisis could mean for the rest of the nation
- The impact of anti-odor clothing on the environment
- Protecting crowds from bombings in public spaces
- Creating a color printer that uses a colorless, non-toxic ink inspired by nature
- Vinegar could potentially help treat ulcerative colitis
- Electric-car battery materials could harm key soil bacteria
- Using light for targeted drug delivery could help fight tumors, local infections
- The lowdown on sports nutrition supplements
- Examining how terrestrial life’s building blocks may have first formed
- Purified cashew proteins lend insight into allergic reactions
- Investigating potential fetal exposure to antidepressants
- Leaf-mimicking device harnesses light to purify water
- Pace of new drug approvals rise — and so do their price tags
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