Research & development
Metal ions may play a big role in how we sense smells
08 April, 2003
Of the five basic senses, the sense of smell is the least understood. Now, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have sniffed out potential clues to how olfactory receptors in the nose detect odours
The future of drug delivery
08 February, 2003
The burgeoning area of drug delivery research could some day produce insulin pills for diabetics, laboratory-grown organs for transplants and plastic surgery, and an under-skin pharmacy on a microchip
Studying corrosion phenomena
08 April, 2002 | Supplied by: CSIRO
Described as the biggest advance in microscopy since the electron microscope, the second-generation scanning Kelvin probe has been unveiled by Australian scientists
