News articles tagged with 'zinc'
New kind of optical fibre developed
— 2 Mar 2011 12:58 | ChemistryA team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fibre made with a core of zinc selenide - a light-yellow…
New kind of optical fibre developed
— 26 Feb 2011 18:00 | TechnologyA team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fibre made with a core of zinc selenide - a light-yellow…
Zinc reduces the burden of the common cold
— 16 Feb 2011 04:23 | HealthZinc supplements reduce the severity and duration of illness caused by the common cold, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The findings could help reduce…
Elevated zinc concentrations in Colorado waterway likely a result of climate change
— 16 Dec 2010 17:37 | EnvironmentRising concentrations of zinc in a waterway on Colorado's Western Slope may be the result of climate change that is affecting the timing of annual snowmelt, says a new study led by…
Uptake protein acts as zinc's doorway to the cell
— 23 Nov 2010 17:38 | BiologyA study to be published as the 'Paper of the Week' in the Journal of Biological Chemistry this December details how zinc, an element fundamental to cell growth, enters the cell via…
Nanogenerators grow strong enough to power small conventional electronics
— 9 Nov 2010 12:40 | TechnologyBlinking numbers on a liquid-crystal display (LCD) often indicate that a device's clock needs resetting. But in the laboratory of Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking number…
Function found for Alzheimer's protein
— 11 Sep 2010 10:55 | HealthIn people with Alzheimer's, the brain becomes riddled with clumps of protein, forming what are known as amyloid plaques. Now, a report appearing in the September 17th print issue of…
Researchers create new class of piezoelectric logic devices using zinc oxide nanowires
— 3 Sep 2010 13:07 | TechnologyResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application…
What makes a good egg and healthy embryo?
— 10 Aug 2010 07:59 | HealthScientists as well as fertility doctors have long tried to figure out what makes a good egg that will produce a healthy embryo. It's a particularly critical question for fertility doctors…
Nanotech yields major advance in heat transfer, cooling technologies
— 10 Jun 2010 11:45 | TechnologyResearchers at Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a new way to apply nanostructure coatings to make heat transfer far more efficient,…