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Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
Last year MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation they can gain electric charge in the process Now the same team has demonstrated that this process can ... - Read MorePressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
A new pressure cell invented by UC Davis researchers makes it possible to simulate chemical reactions deep in the Earth's crust The cell allows researchers to perform nuclear magnetic resonance NMR measurements on as little ... - Read MoreSAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
The oxygen rich surface waters of the world's major oceans are supersaturated with methane a powerful greenhouse gas that is roughly 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide yet little is known about the source ... - Read MoreIroning out details of the carbon cycle: Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to Sahara desert
Iron is present in tiny concentrations in seawater On the order of a few billionths of a gram in a liter I did a calculation once on a ton of ocean water says Seth John ... - Read MoreNASA launches carbon mission to watch Earth breathe
NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2 56 a m PDT 5 56 a m EDT Tuesday July 1 2014 The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 OCO 2 raced ... - Read MoreHigh carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics
The impact of the greenhouse gas CO2 on Earth's temperature is well established by climate models and temperature records over the past 100 years as well as coupled records of carbon dioxide concentration and temperature ... - Read MoreEmperor penguin in peril: Climate change threatens dramatic declines
An international team of scientists studying Emperor penguin populations across Antarctica finds the iconic animals in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change Their study published today in ... - Read MoreAncient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago
Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana's Lake Ponchatrain does today says a new study involving the University ... - Read MoreWater samples teeming with information: Emerging techniques for environmental monitoring
Setting effective conservation policies requires near real time knowledge of environmental conditions Scientists with Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions propose using genetic techniques as a low cost quick way to collect such data Environmental policy ... - Read MoreReigning in chaos in particle colliders yields big results
When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed there's bound to be some chaos Limiting that chaos in particle colliders is crucial for the groundbreaking results such experiments are designed ... - 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Released 10 11 2013 9 35 AM EDTEmbargo expired 10 13 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom McMaster University more news from this source Oct 15 2013 Hamilton ON Oct 13 2013 Researchers at McMaster ...
A natural shift to stronger warm El Niño events in the Pacific Ocean might be responsible for a substantial portion of the global warming recorded during the past 50 years according to new research at ...
Geochemistry analysis conducted by the U S Naval Research Laboratory of fossil sediment injection structures off the New Zealand coast in February and March reveal no presence of modern day expulsions of methane gas a ...
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To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions
no picThe politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all according to a comprehensive new study by University of Chicago climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert Among the climate pollutants humans put into the ... - Read MoreHigh CO2 levels cause warming in tropics
no picThe impact of the greenhouse gas CO2 on Earth's temperature is well established by climate models and temperature records over the past 100 years as well as coupled records of carbon dioxide concentration and temperature ... - Read MoreEmperor penguin in peril
no picAn international team of scientists studying Emperor penguin populations across Antarctica finds the iconic animals in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change Their study published today in ... - Read MoreOrigin of life: Stanley Miller's forgotten experiments, analyzed
no picStanley Miller the chemist whose landmark experiment published in 1953 showed how some of the molecules of life could have formed on a young Earth left behind boxes of experimental samples that he never analyzed ... - Read MoreTeam develops a geothermometer for methane formation
no picMethane is a simple molecule consisting of just one carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms But that simplicity belies the complex role the molecule plays on Earth it is an important greenhouse gas is ... - Read MoreBioinorganic Chemistry
How knots can swap positions on a DNA strandPhysicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz JGU and the Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz MAINZ have been able with the aid of computer simulations to confirm and explain a mechanism by which ...
- Artificial enzyme mimics natural detoxification mechanism in liver cells
- Compact, extremely small-scale incubator microscope to examine cells in time lapse
- DNA can be damaged by very low-energy radiation
- Combatting hospital-acquired infections with protein metal complex
- BLAST off! Exploring the universe of biochemical reactions
Supramolecular Chemistry
Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy useResearchers have developed a microfluidic technique for fabricating a new class of metal organic framework MOF membranes inside hollow polymer fibers that are just a few hundred microns in diameter The new fabrication process believed ...
- Green spaces in cities may increase erosion of building materials such as stone, concrete and steel
- Let there be light: Chemists develop magnetically responsive liquid crystals for writing tablets, billboards and more
- LEGO bricks turned into scientific tool to study plant growth
- New perspectives to the design of molecular cages
- Making better medicines with handful of chemical building blocks
Scientific Communication
Highlights for 2014 National Meeting of World's Largest Scientific SocietyJournalists registering for the American Chemical Society’s ACS’ 248th National Meeting & amp Exposition this summer will have an abundance of material to mine for their news stories Nearly 12 000 presentations are planned on ...
- Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors
- Princess and the Pea? Invisibility cloak prevents an object from being felt
- Unprecedented 3-D view of important brain receptor
- Snowballs to soot: The clumping density of many things seems to be a standard
- Understanding biomechanics behind amazing ant strength opens door to advanced robotics
Chemistry Education
Revealing the healing of 'dino-sores': Examining broken bones in 150-million-year-old predatory dinosaurScientists have used state of the art imaging techniques to examine the cracks fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million year old predatory dinosaur The University of Manchester researchers say their groundbreaking ...
Agrochemistry
A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink BugsReleased 16 Jul 2014 4 20 PM EDTSource Newsroom American Chemical Society ACS more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Journal of Natural ProductsJul 17 2014 Anyone who ...
Chemical Industry
Checking up on crude oil in the ground: Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'Scientists at Rice University have created a nanoscale detector that checks for and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide in crude oil and natural gas while they're still in the ground The nanoreporter is ...
- Simpler gas distribution using buoyant transfer system
- Turning raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel
- What makes superalloys super? Hierarchical microstructure of a superalloy
- Stripped mobile phone camera turned into mini-microscope for low-cost diagnostics
- Tapping a valuable resource or invading the environment? Research examines the start of fracking in Ohio
Theoretical Chemistry
When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding moleculesUsing ultra short X ray flashes an international team of researchers watched electrons jumping between the fragments of exploding molecules The study reveals up to what distance a charge transfer between the two molecular fragments ...
Biophysical Chemistry
Rare chemical phenomenon that could be harnessed to harvest solar energy demonstrated by researchersA team of international scientists led by Professor Jagadese J Vittal of the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore's NUS Faculty of Science has successfully unraveled the chemical reaction responsible for propelling ...
- NUS Scientists Demonstrate Rare Chemical Phenomenon That Could Be Harnessed to Harvest Solar Energy
- Refined model for reliable prediction of invasion dynamics
- Found: New cellulose digestion mechanism by fast-eating enzyme
- Intense two-color double X-ray laser pulses: Powerful tool to study ultrafast processes
- X-ray laser can solve protein structures from scratch
Chemical Engineering
Tracking animals on videos: Software able to identify and track a specific individual within a groupResearchers from the Spanish National Research Council CSIC have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the identification of each individual therefore allowing their tracking within the group Thus the ...
- New method of wormlike motion lets gels wiggle through water
- Engineering a better way to rebuild bone inside the body
- Analysis of financial markets using laws of molecular fluid dynamics
- New insight into thermoelectric materials may boost green technologies
- Making it big: Metamaterial applications a step closer to reality
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Recent News
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricity
- Squishy robots: Phase-changing material could allow even low-cost robots to switch between hard and soft states
- New materials for future green tech devices
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- Research Finds Bedbugs Can Be Killed with Lower Dosage of Chemical
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- Removing disordered regions of shape-shifting protein explains how blood clots
- Directly visualizing hydrogen bonds
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Best-ever efficiency points to clean, green gas-diesel engine
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink Bugs
- Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimer's conference
- Flashes of light on a superconductor
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Technology produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel cheaply using carbon nanotubes
- Fuel cells for powering homes
- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- Postcards from the photosynthetic edge: Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation
- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
- Sophisticated radiation detector designed for broad public use
- Ultrasound tracks odor representation in brain
- Bacteria Hijack Plentiful Iron Supply Source to Flourish
- Study Yields First Snapshots of Water Splitting in Photosynthesis
- American Chemical Society Meeting Features Hands-On Family Event, Energy Symposia
- New Compound Treats Both Blindness and Diabetes in Animal Studies
- Potent Spider Toxin 'Electrocutes' German, Not American, Cockroaches
- SAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
- Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues
- Ultra-cold atom transport made simple
- Efficient thermal cooling and heating
- The quantum dance of oxygen: Proposal for a new phase of the element, when atoms dance in quartets
- Highlights for 2014 National Meeting of World's Largest Scientific Society
- How beryllium causes deadly lung disease
- New optogenetic tool for controlling neuronal signalling by blue light
- Lights out: Light pollution alters reproduction cycle in lemurs
- Ironing out details of the carbon cycle: Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to Sahara desert
- From pencil marks to quantum computers
- Identifying microbial species: New device will help identify the millions of bacteria that populate the world
- Tool helps guide brain cancer surgery
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
- Safer, cheaper building blocks for future anti-HIV and cancer drugs
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