Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are fantastic for powering all the essential modern life items like cellphones, watches, laptops, cars, and so much more, are likely to be numerous. But a major issue is where they go when they fail. Scientists from Rice University gave a new insight into it.
While it may seem common knowledge that smoking is bad for your lungs, if and how ultrafine particles present in cigarette smoke impact the development and progression of lung cancer remains unclear. Working with animal models, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine sought to find how airborne ultrafine particles in smoke can change a host's defence against lung cancer.
Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): Chemists find a rare genetic pathway that helps mammalian cells become drug factories or sensors by synthesizing noncanonical amino acids. The clues came from an uncommon bird.
Houston [US], June 21 (ANI): According to a study led by environmental scientists at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering, Agricultural pollution originates in the prairie, but its economic impact on humans is a city problem.
Houston (Texas) [US], April 9 (ANI): A new chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for the industry has been discovered by scientists at Rice University.
Houston (Texas) [US], April 6 (ANI): Scientists at Rice University have discovered a chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for the industry.