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Cold, salty and promiscuous: Gene-shuffling microbes dominate Antarctica's Deep Lake
Water vapor in stratosphere plays role in climate
Water vapor changes in the stratosphere contribute to warmer temperatures and likely play an important role in the evolution of Earth's climate says a research team led by a Texas A& amp M University professor ... - Read MoreIngredient of household plastic found in space
Erratic proteins: New insights into a transport mechanism
Engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA
New metabolic pathway to more efficiently convert sugars into biofuels
Study Finds Tungsten in Aquifer Groundwater Controlled by pH, Oxygen
Released 9 30 2013 2 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Kansas State University more news from this source Saugata Datta785 532 2241sdatta@k state edu Oct 1 2013 MANHATTAN Kan Two Kansas geologists are helping shed new ... - Read MoreZinc, Proteins, and an Essential Cellular Balancing Act
a single celled fungus Yeast can adapt to both shortages and excesses of zinc says MacDiarmid an associate scientist Zinc is an essential nutrient but if there's too much it's toxic The issue for the ... - Read MoreBreathing underwater: Evidence of microscopic life in oceanic crust
First step to reduce plant need for nitrogen fertilizer uncovered
Nitrogen fertilizer costs U S farmers approximately $8 billion each year and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams damaging the delicate water systems Now a discovery by a team of University ... - Read MoreMost Popular Articles
Released 3 11 2013 5 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom National University of Singapore more news from this source Mar 11 2013 A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore NUS led by Professor ...
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All chefs know that you have to break some eggs to make an omelet and that includes engineers at Iowa State University who are using high frequency sound waves to break down plant materials in ...
An old material gets a new name and with it topological insulators have another chance to shine Samarium hexaboride SmB6 has been around since the late 1960s but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained ...
All too often when a person takes a pill full of a potent and effective drug the drug passes straight through the body not reaching the organ where it is needed a waste of money ...
With the help of phylogenetic analysis scientists describe three new fungus species from New Zealand The new species belong to the widespread genus Gymnopus part of the Omphalotaceae family the most famous representative of which ...
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3-D models of electrical streamers
Bright, laser-based lighting devices
Wagon-wheel pasta shape for better LED lights
Novel technology to produce gasoline by a metabolically-engineered microorganism
Microbes facilitate the persistence, spread of invasive plant species by changing soil chemistry
Materials Science
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre World War II computer technology and combining this with a new and durable material researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more ...
- Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' material (MOF)
- Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals -- as well as semimetals
- Scientists scale terahertz peaks in nanotubes
- Scientists offer new insights on controlling nanoparticle stability
- Morphing material has mighty potential: Composite may find use in bioscaffolds, optics, drugs
Food Chemistry
In the EU funded project MicroMilk European SMEs together with the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB have developed a novel method for pasteurization of milk with microwaves The system preserves the valuable components ...
- Tiny 'Lego' blocks build Janus nanotubes with potential for new drugs and water purification
- Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature: Computational research unveils secrets in the human carbohydrate bar-code
- Quick test kit detects phenolic compounds in drinking water
- Protein surfaces defects act as drug targets
- BPA and chlorine means bad news: Modified forms of bisphenol A found to alter hormone signaling in new, disturbing ways
Chemical Industry
Simple imaging devices modified to inexpensive mini microscopes are the new weapon in fight against tropical infectious diseases show the researchers at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institutet ...
- Tapping a valuable resource or invading the environment? Research examines the start of fracking in Ohio
- Super efficient combustion engine emits half the carbon dioxide
- Butterfly wings inspire new technologies: From fabrics and cosmetics to sensors
- Hydraulic fracturing in Michigan investigated
- Using a form of 'ice that burns' to make potable water from oil and gas production
Theoretical Chemistry
Scientists have developed a new feedback method for optimizing the laser pulse shapes used in the control of chemical reactions In many ways traditional chemical synthesis is similar to cooking To alter the final product ...
Photochemistry
Research by Professor Jian Ren Shen at Okayama University demystifies the reaction mechanisms of photosynthesis and the findings may lead to the development of methods for producing an unlimited source of clean energy Professor Jian ...
- General in the Solar Army to High School and College Students: 'We Are Recruiting'
- Off-grid sterilization with 'solar steam'
- Purple sunlight eaters: Microorganisms found in salt flats could offer new path to green hydrogen fuel
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
Medicinal Chemistry
The prospect of turning coal into fluorescent particles may sound too good to be true but the possibility exists thanks to scientists at Rice University The Rice lab of chemist James Tour found simple methods ...
- Clinical waste may be valuable for monitoring treatment response in ovarian cancer
- Carbon monoxide may help shrink tumors, amplify effectiveness of chemotherapy
- Turning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
- Sorting Good Germs From Bad, in the Bacterial World
- Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production
Spectroscopy
The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 to be fully ...
Natural Product Chemistry
Researchers show how modified pacemaker strengthens failing heartsJohns Hopkins heart researchers are unraveling the mystery of how a modified pacemaker used to treat many patients with heart failure known as cardiac resynchronization therapy CRT is able to strengthen the heart muscle while ...
- New antifungal composition effectively inhibits wide variety of fungi
- Computer simulations indicate calcium carbonate has a dense liquid phase
- Traditional forest management reduces fungal diversity
- Great exaptations: Most traits emerge for no crucial reason, scientists find
- Beautiful but hiding unpleasant surprise: Three new species of fetid fungi from New Zealand
Environmental Chemistry
Rivers and streams release carbon dioxide at a rate five times greater than the world's lakes and reservoirs combined contrary to common belief Research from the University of Waterloo was a key component of the ...
- Hard rock life: Collecting census data on microbial denizens of hardened rocks
- 2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare
- New long-lived greenhouse gas discovered: Highest global-warming impact of any compound to date
- Water pollution in Mozambique
- Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
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- Rivers and streams release more greenhouse gas than all lakes
- Hard rock life: Collecting census data on microbial denizens of hardened rocks
- Survey of supposed deep-sea chemical munitions dump off Southern California
- More light shed on possibility of life on Mars
- NASA Curiosity: First Mars age measurement and human exploration help
- 2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare
- Engineering researchers report on nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices
- Welcome guests: Added molecules allow metal-organic frameworks to conduct electricity
- Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' material (MOF)
- Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals -- as well as semimetals
- Scientists scale terahertz peaks in nanotubes
- A stopwatch for electron flashes: duration of energetic electron pulses measured using laser fields
- Solar cell degradation observed directly for the first time
- New long-lived greenhouse gas discovered: Highest global-warming impact of any compound to date
- How light affects individual atoms
- Scientists offer new insights on controlling nanoparticle stability
- Stripped mobile phone camera turned into mini-microscope for low-cost diagnostics
- Coal yields plenty of graphene quantum dots
- Quantum effects help cells capture light, but the details are obscure
- Morphing material has mighty potential: Composite may find use in bioscaffolds, optics, drugs
- World's highest quantum efficiency UV photodetectors created
- Clinical waste may be valuable for monitoring treatment response in ovarian cancer
- Water pollution in Mozambique
- Thermoelectric materials nearing production scale
- Three-dimensional view helps laser in building new molecules
- GRAPHENE: Growing Giants
- Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
- Experiment is first to simulate warming of Arctic permafrost
- New Jersey Shore likely faces unprecedented flooding by mid-century
- Ultrathin 'diagnostic skin' allows continuous patient monitoring
- Electricity from waste heat with more efficient materials
- Researchers create nonlinear light-generating zero-index metamaterial
- How water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule
- Carbon monoxide may help shrink tumors, amplify effectiveness of chemotherapy
- Better water purification with seeds from moringa trees
- DNA helicity, elasticity explained on nanoscale
- Silkworms spin colored silks while on a 'green' dyed-leaf diet
- While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Turning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
- Industrial age helps some coastal regions capture carbon dioxide, surprise finding shows
- Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
- Data centers can be cooled down in environmentally friendly, energy efficient ways
- Accelerated corrosion testing of silver provides clues about performance in atmospheric conditions
- Intense two-color double X-ray laser pulses: Powerful tool to study ultrafast processes
- The promise of nanotechnology
- Amoeboid swimming: Crawling in a fluid
- Molecular sensor detects early signs of multiple sclerosis, study finds
- Diagnostic imaging: New chip provides better all-round performance
- Living desert underground: In perpetual darkness of limestone cave, surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes
- Tracking fracking pollution
- New thermoelectronic generator: Heat energy efficiently converted to electricity
- Companies could make the switch to wood power
- Nanoscale shape-memory oxide discovered: Opens door to applications in medicine, energy and electronics
- 'Spooky action' builds a wormhole between 'entangled' quantum particles
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