Mandate for biofuels production requires science-based policy an...

New recipe for self-healing plastic includes dash of food...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Adding a food additive to damaged polymers can help restore them to full strength, say scientists at the...

NSF funds new 'Center for the Physics of Living Cells' at...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center...

Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins change shape,...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet.Ubiquitous on Earth, water also...

Miscanthus can meet US biofuels goal using less land than corn...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant...

Biochemistry: Board Review Series
BRS Biochemistry embodies the popular BRS format of succinct outline review of content followed by approximately 500 USMLE-style questions with...

Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for...
Werner Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle” challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert...

Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
Fresh insights into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories.Although...