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Smallest puzzle in the world
New form of carbon: Grossly warped 'nanographene'
Educators explore innovative theater as a way to learn physics
In a study released last week education researchers found that personifying energy allowed students to grapple with difficult ideas about how energy works Contrasted with more traditional lectures and graphs this innovative instructional technique may ... - Read MoreBiochemists uphold law of physics
Artificial cells to study molecular crowding and gene expression created
The interior of a living cell is a crowded place with proteins and other macromolecules packed tightly together A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has approximated this molecular crowding in an artificial cellular ... - Read MoreSmoke from Canadian wildfires observed in Europe
Individual atoms imaged in a living catalytic reaction
Drug delivery: Small packages delivering huge results
Earth's core affects length of day
Race for new temperature definition: Most accurate measurement yet of Boltzmann constant
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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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Trapping T-rays for better security scanners
ID got you, under the skin
no picForget fingerprints or iris recognition the next big thing in biometrics will be a thermal imaging scan that maps the blood vessels under the skin of your face for instantaneous face recognition that would be ... - Read MoreBiologists name newly discovered threadworm after physicist Max Planck
How early Earth kept warm enough to support life
Arctic sea ice during the Pliocene era
no picNew research by UM bioclimatology Assistant Professor Ashley Ballantyne models the influence of Arctic sea ice on Arctic temperatures during the Pliocene era His research was published in the Research Highlight section of the July ... - Read MorePhotochemistry
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
Supramolecular Chemistry
For some the disease multiple sclerosis MS attacks its victims slowly and progressively over a period of many years For others it strikes without warning in fits and starts But all patients share one thing ...
Electrochemistry
Small test strips made of silver or other metals called coupons are frequently used to assess and predict the speeds at which metals used in outdoor environments pipelines aircraft bridges as well as countless other ...
- Enhancing battery performance for portable electronics
- Scientists invent self-healing battery electrode
- Better batteries through biology? Modified viruses boost battery performance
- New rechargeable flow battery could enable cheaper, more efficient energy storage
- No more leakage of explosive electrolytes in batteries
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
Agrochemistry
Glomeromycota is an ancient lineage of fungi that has a symbiotic relationship with roots that goes back nearly 420 million years to the earliest plants More than two thirds of the world's plants depend on ...
Acid-base Chemistry
Seeds from Moringa oleifera trees can be used to purify water Uppsala University leads a research group which has discovered that seed material can give a more efficient purification process than conventional synthetic materials in ...
- Water glides freely across 'nanodrapes' made from the world's thinnest material
- Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen into electricity
- In water as in love, likes can attract
- Motorized microscopic matchsticks move in water with sense of direction
- Rare earth metal essential element for methane-munching acid-volcano microbe
Chemical Biology
Missing Molecule in Chemical Production Line DiscoveredReleased 12 10 2013 3 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom Salk Institute for Biological Studies more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations eLifeDec 11 2013 LA JOLLA CA It ...
- Survey of supposed deep-sea chemical munitions dump off Southern California
- Graphene nanoribbons for 'reading' DNA: Researchers improve the nanopore-based technology for detecting DNA molecules
- Bait research focused on outsmarting destructive beetle
- Of hurricanes, fungus and Parkinson's disease
- Biosensor could help detect brain injuries during heart surgery
Molecular Biology
Researchers from CNRS Inserm and Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble have developed a particularly simple model that reproduces the swimming mechanism of amoebas They show that by changing shape these single cell organisms propel themselves forward ...
- Scientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex
- Researchers use nanoscale 'patches' to sensitize targeted cell receptors
- SlipChip counts molecules with chemistry and a cell phone
- Single-cell genome sequencing gets better
- RNA controls splicing during gene expression, further evidence of 'RNA world' origin in modern life
Biophysical Chemistry
A team working at the SACLA X ray Free Electron Laser XFEL in Japan has succeeded in generating ultra bright two color X ray laser pulses for the first time in the hard X ray ...
- X-ray laser can solve protein structures from scratch
- Bringing out the best in X-ray crystallography data
- Tapping fungus to unlock energy: Crafting a better enzyme cocktail to turn plants into fuel faster
- Bismuth-carrying nanotubes show promise for CT scans
- Size matters as nanocrystals go through phases
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- First measurement flight: Research aircraft HALO explores trade wind clouds
- Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres
- RAVAN to help solve an earth science mystery
- Missing Molecule in Chemical Production Line Discovered
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- 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
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