Researchers report that those who plan ahead and consider how to respond positively to challenging problems tend to suffer less from anxiety than those who ignore, hide, or repress their feelings. A study revealed that those who engage in an emotional regulation strategy called reappraisal tended to also have less social anxiety and less anxiety in general than those who avoid expressing their feelings. Reappraisal involves looking at a problem in a new way, said University of Illinois graduate student Nicole Llewellyn, who led the research with Beckman affiliate Florin Dolcos, professor of psychology.

As-made single-walled carbon nanotubes consist of a mixture of both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes. This is a problem for researchers trying to fabricate electronic devices because – ideally – pure samples of either semiconducting or metallic tubes are required, depending on the application. Now, a team, led by Beckman researcher John Rogers, has come up with a new way to separate out the two types of tubes using nanoscale thermocapillary physics.

Beckman researcher Nancy Sottos is a member of the team of researchers that has developed a glue that uses DNA base pair mimics that bind to each other more strongly than their natural counterparts and may lead to glues far more powerful than Super Glue.

"In our study, we used mice that were genetically engineered to develop an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Even so, half the animals that had consumed tomato and soy had no cancerous lesions in the prostate at study's end," said John Erdman, a University of Illinois professor of food science and nutrition.