Terpenes are volatile organic compounds that are responsible for, among other things, the typical scents of plants, resins or ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Natural UV-protective compounds from algae are revealing unexpected biological activities. Scientists have found that certain natural compounds produced by algae and cyanobacteria may offer benefits ...

Figure 1: Growth rates as a function of sulfuric acid and highly oxygenated molecule (HOM) concentrations. We further consider two very different experiments. During the first experiment, the HOM ...

The tabletting properties of a new coprocessed excipient for direct compression were compared with a physical mixture of its components (separately and with drugs) and the individual constituents. The ...

A new particle has been discovered at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, and researchers say it's exhibiting unusual properties. Unlike normal particles, this one exotic particle contains four 'flavours' ...