Animal Scientists Develop Climate-Smart Cows That Produce 20x More Milk
A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce…
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Superbug Menace: Farming’s Hidden Plastic Crisis Threatening Our Food Supply
Modern farming, like all industries, has a significant dependence on plastics. Consider the plastic mulch that adorns vegetable beds, the PVC channels that manage water…
New Study: Vegan Diets Can Provide Adequate Nutrition for Dogs
In the contemporary pet food industry, an array of products exists to cater to virtually every lifestyle, belief system, and budget of pet owners, including…
Unprecedented Speed: Scientists Discover 30 New Natural Compounds
Researchers were able to discover and characterize new ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides at an unprecedented speed and scale. Modern medicine makes extensive use…
Existence of Exotic Particles – Sought for Decades – Evidenced In Newly-Discovered Superconductor
Material may be natural home to quasiparticle hiding for decades. Particle chasing—it’s a game that so many physicists play. Sometimes the hunt takes place inside…
Bizarre Objects Discovered Near Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole – “Really Strange Signature”
Astronomers from UCLA’s Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of bizarre objects at the center of our galaxy, not far from the…
Researchers Discover Simple Way Sweet Corn Growers Could Dramatically Increase Yield
In an industry struggling to maintain profitability, it’s curious that U.S. processing sweet corn – the corn that ends up in cans and freezer bags…
Study Finds New Method to Accelerate Nanoparticles
In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and the Missouri University of Science and Technology modeled a method to manipulate nanoparticles as…
Scientists Discover New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on…
New Technique Reveals 3D Nanoscale Chemical Reactions Inside Batteries
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of…
Physicists Image Individual Quantum Dots in 3-D for the First Time
Researchers have developed an imaging technique that uses a tiny, super sharp needle to nudge a single nanoparticle into different orientations and capture 2-D images…
Have A Fat Cat? Here Is The Diet They Need To Follow To Lose Weight
Does your cat lay around all day, only getting up to eat and visit the litter box? Chances are, he’s overweight. Maybe you’ve switched to…
Infant Formula With Prebiotics Could Improve Learning and Memory
Nearly every American who has become a parent in the last decade has heard the slogan, “breast milk is best,” and has likely been encouraged…
Bioengineers Use Infrared Imaging to Optimize the Structure of MOFs
Bioengineers at the University of Illinois have taken a new look at an old tool to help characterize a class of materials called metal organic…
Luminescent Carbon Nanoparticles Exhibit Reversible Switching in Cancer Cells
A team of researchers has demonstrated, for the first time, that photo luminescent carbon nanoparticles can exhibit reversible switching of their optical properties in cancer…
Inexpensive Spray Method Delivers High-Quality Graphene Layer
Using an inexpensive spray method, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Korea University have developed a supersonic spray that delivers a high-quality…
Illinois Researchers Develop Synthetic Materials that Self-Repair
Researchers from the University of Illinois have developed nonliving, synthetic materials that can heal and regenerate in a way that is reminiscent of some living…
Graphene Balloon Yields Unprecedented Images of Hydrated Molecules
By using a “graphene balloon,” researchers from Michigan Tech and the University of Illinois-Chicago found a way to make electron microscopes friendlier to biological samples….