Month: November 2013Page 4 of 7
Every year, scientists rush to create a vaccine for the newest strain of the influenza virus affecting the population. Current flu vaccines do not provide immunity against multiple…
The ability to sense pain is an important evolutionary adaption— it usually calls attention to some sort of tissue damage. Thus, several animals have developed defense mechanisms such…
Caputo et al. recently developed a Lewis acid, [(C6F5)3 PF]+, which has proven highly effective in hydrodefluorination, the conversion of a carbon-fluorine bond into a carbon-hydrogen bond. A…
While we have a tendency to impose a boundary between science and the arts, some famous scientists weren’t only brilliant, but also musically inclined. At his mother’s urging, Einstein…
The nature of time is a hard thing to define because one perceives it as an inescapable fact: tomorrow always comes. But will there ever be a day…