The growth of Green Chemistry A weathered, nearly half-century-old plaque hangs on the wall of Paul Anastas’ office at Yale University – an unusual keepsake for an academic. Its story dates back to the 1970s in Quincy, Massachusetts, where eight-year-old Paul watched his neighbourhood wetlands get taken over by glass-fronted insurance and bank buildings. […]
Researchers on campus talk about why they run It was 6 am. The unrelenting blare of the alarm jolted me awake. An alluring voice in my head, forceful and convincing, suggested that I go back to sleep, the world can wait. But with Herculean effort, I heeded the other steely voice in my […]
Technicians at MBU’s X-ray facility are crucial to maintaining the high-end equipment On pushing open the yellow door marked with a bright radiation hazard sign, a wave of cool air belched out by 20 year-old air conditioners greets you. You can hear the low-pitched hum of compressors and generators, also 20 year-old occupants of […]
Cells can apply and sense forces to communicate and coordinate with each other. Scientists and engineers have teamed up under the mechanobiology banner to study these cellular forces The outermost and the innermost surfaces of any organ are lined by the ‘epithelium’, a tissue composed of cells arranged in a sheet. For instance, the […]
