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Widely used pesticide toxic to honeybees
Forthcoming research in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry analyzes the physiological effects of three separate pesticides on honey bees Apis mellifera An international research team Drs Stephan Caravalho Luc Belzunces and colleagues from Universidade ... - Read MoreEvaporation: Tiny temperature differences are primary driving force in droplet evaporation
Computing toxic chemicals
A new computational method for working out in advance whether a chemical will be toxic will be reporting in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics There is increasing pressure ... - Read MoreGraphene 'onion rings' have delicious potential
Facebook for molecules
Social media has expanded to reach an unlikely new target molecules Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have created networks of molecular data similar to Facebook's recently debuted graph search feature ... - Read MoreBPA and chlorine means bad news: Modified forms of bisphenol A found to alter hormone signaling in new, disturbing ways
In the zone: How scientists search for habitable planets
'Impossible' material made with record-breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities
Using bacteria batteries to make electricity
Their idea is state of the art Ten Bielefeld students have set their sights on constructing a bio battery They want to make use of the bacteria Escherichia coli to convert glucose into energy With ... - Read MoreInjectable 'smart sponge' holds promise for controlled drug delivery
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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 ...
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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A heart of gold: Gold nanofibers in engineered heart tissue can enhance electrical signalling
Compound Discovered at Sea Shows Potency against Anthrax
no picReleased 7 17 2013 4 35 PM EDTSource Newsroom University of California San Diego more news from this source Jul 18 2013 A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ... - Read MoreLong-buried seawall protected homes from Hurricane Sandy's record storm surge
GOES-R improvements to provide stunning, continuous full-disk imagery
no picThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of GOES satellites beginning with GOES R will have the ability to take full disk images of Earth at five minute intervals That means that GOES R ... - Read MoreNew thermocell could harvest 'waste heat' from power stations and even vehicle exhaust pipes
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Carbohydrate Chemistry
Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than PopeyeSpinach gave Popeye super strength but it also holds the promise of a different power for a group of scientists the ability to convert sunlight into a clean efficient alternative fuel Purdue University physicists are ...
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Research could lead to dramatic energy savings at data farms
- Supercomputer tackles grid challenges
- Solar panels light the way from carbon dioxide to fuel
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
Biophysical Chemistry
Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assuranceA DTU researcher has developed a method that uses X rays for the rapid identification of substances present in an indeterminate powder The new technique has the capacity to recognize advanced biological molecules such as ...
- Rare chemical phenomenon that could be harnessed to harvest solar energy demonstrated by researchers
- 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
Nuclear Chemistry
Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'The discovery 30 years ago of soccer ball shaped carbon molecules called buckyballs helped to spur an explosion of nanotechnology research Now there appears to be a new ball on the pitch Researchers from Brown ...
Materials Science
A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos may lead to fast multi-functional processing units on single chipResearchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf HZDR the Vienna University of Technology and the Maria Curie Skłodowska University Lublin have succeeded in embedding nearly perfect semiconductor crystals into a silicon nanowire With this new ...
- Nano-sized chip picks up scent of explosives molecules better than dog's nose
- 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
- Labs characterize carbon for lithion-ion batteries
- 3-D nanostructure could benefit nanoelectronics, gas storage: functional advantages of 3-D boron nitride predicted
Femtochemistry
Efficient structures help build a sustainable futureWhen envisioning a new structure engineers often have to balance design choices against the environmental impact of materials used It is estimated that 40 to 50 percent of greenhouse gases are produced by the construction ...
- New use for touchless technology in the operating theatre
- Lasers, night-vision technology help improve imaging of hidden lymphatic system
- Novel laser system mimics sunlight to test solar cell efficiency
- New laser sensing technology for self-driving cars, smartphones and 3-D video games
- Shaping ultrashort laser pulses: Laser light needs more bass
Polymer Chemistry
Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cellPerovskite solar cells show tremendous promise in propelling solar power into the marketplace The cells use a hole transportation layer which promotes the efficient movement of electrical current after exposure to sunlight However manufacturing the ...
- Shatterproof screens that save smartphones
- Preserving bread longer: A new edible film made with essential oils
- Conducting polymer films decorated with biomolecules for cell research use
- Cheap, environmentally-friendly method for making transparent conductive films for laptops, smartphones, solar cells
- Determining biocontainers' carbon footprint
Separation Processes
Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesisBiophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers ...
- Broadening the scope for synthesizing optically active compounds
- Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
- Game changer for synthesizing new materials: Method synthesizes thousands of new compounds with ultra low thermal conductivity
- Evaporation: Tiny temperature differences are primary driving force in droplet evaporation
- Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection
Bioinorganic 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
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- The electric slide dance of DNA knots
- Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computing
- Technique simplifies creation of high-tech crystals
- Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding parts
- A crystal wedding in the nanocosmos may lead to fast multi-functional processing units on single chip
- Nano-sized chip picks up scent of explosives molecules better than dog's nose
- Eco-pottery product from water treatment sludge
- Cost-effective, solvothermal synthesis of heteroatom (S or N)-doped graphene developed
- Dream come true for chemists? Creating organic zeolites
- Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Unleashing the power of quantum dot triplets
- Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assurance
- Atomic structure of key muscle component revealed
- How to power California with wind, water and sun
- 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
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