If a liquid is cooled slowly to its freezing point, it becomes a crystal in which the constituent particles are arranged in ...

Imagine an ordinary Tuesday. You wash your hair, put on deodorant, drink coffee, pack lunch in a plastic container and ...

Zimlich is a critical care nurse who has been writing about health care and clinical developments for over 10 years. IV fluids for dehydration are commonly used in emergencies, especially for older ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to emergent physical traits. Biofilms lead lives of liminality ...

British TV presenter Davina McCall has undergone neurosurgery to remove a colloid cyst – a type of benign brain tumour. McCall was diagnosed with the tumour by chance. In an Instagram video posted in ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Pattern formation is a frequent phenomenon occurring in animate and inanimate systems.

There is a great need for easy tests identifying infection-causing bacteria. Identifying bacterial DNA using the polymerase chain reaction may be problematic in low-tech environments. Here we present ...

Colloid solutions, both natural and synthetic, had been widely accepted as having superior volume expanding effects than crystalloids. Synthetic colloid solutions were previously considered at least ...

In aqueous systems, including groundwater, nano-colloids (1–100 nm diameter) and small colloids (<450 nm diameter) provide a vast store of surfaces to which organic carbon (OC) can sorb, precluding ...

BiCMat group led by Prof. Orlando Rojas works toward supporting global sustainable development through research on the fundamental and utilization aspects of renewable resources, including ...

Hypovolaemia resulting from illness or trauma can precipitate imbalances in homoeostasis due to the loss of circulating fluid volume. By addressing hypovolaemia, homoeostasis can be restored, ...