Remember the old saying that "One bad apple spoils the bunch?" As it turns out, that's true — apples make other fruit ripen faster, which is why they shouldn't be stored together. Here’s why this ...

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9303, United States ...

East Asia’s petrochemical industry is entering its largest restructuring in decades, with planned closures of aging naphtha cracking facilities in China, Japan and South Korea expected to remove more ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - China's swift production ramp-up of ethylene, a crucial component for plastics, packaging and construction, is expected to drive down global prices and weigh on U.S. and European ...

Recent studies show that nitrate and nitrite are physiologically recycled in blood and tissue to form NO and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. Thus, they should be viewed as storage pools for NO-like ...

Abstract: This article studies an enhanced distributed optimization algorithm in an undirected topology based on local communication and computation to optimize the sum of local objective functions ...

A team of surgeons transplanting a pig kidney into a brain dead patient, part of a growing field of research aimed at advancing cross-species transplants and closing ...