The bacterial membrane enzyme styrene oxide isomerase can convert toxic compounds into valuable materials. Selvapravin Kumaran, a doctoral student in Professor Dirk Tischler's Microbial Biotechnology ...

Patients with major depressive disorder, including those who have not responded to first-line antidepressants, may benefit from short-term nitrous oxide treatment, a major meta-analysis led by the ...

Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance. The ability to exploit this gas as a chemical reagent is an attractive prospect, both as an abundant feedstock and means to remediate ...

Heat is released from the manganese oxide material when water molecules enter into its layered structure. Courtesy: Tohoku University A form of manganese oxide that incorporates water between its ...

NUS physicists have realised superconductivity in lanthanide nickel-oxide, answering a theoretical prediction made about three decades ago. This enables a new way to achieve and understand ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has created a critical materials technology that accelerates the ...

Researchers have found ways to stabilize a new battery with a record-high charge capacity. By adding chromium or vanadium to the lithium-manganese-oxide cathode, the battery could enable smart phones ...