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Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
A new study by scientists at Duke University and the U S Geological Survey USGS finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater ... - Read MoreLow-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
Released 5 16 2013 11 35 AM EDTSource Newsroom Texas Tech University more news from this source May 16 2013 When it comes to cleaning up the next massive crude oil spill one of the ... - Read MoreGeologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures carbon dioxide
Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide CO2 This could make power generation from natural ... - Read MoreNew mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide CO2 This could make power generation from natural ... - Read MorePotential of best practice to reduce impacts from oil and gas projects in the Amazon
Cheaper natural gas-powered cars on the horizon?
Solar booster shot for natural gas power plants
Natural Soil Bacteria Pump New Life Into Exhausted Oil Wells
knowing that 60 70 percent of the oil in that first reservoir remained untouched We’re in a different era now Oil is scarcer and it makes sense to use MEOR It can put about 10 ... - Read MoreNew emissions standards would fuel shift from coal to natural gas
The cost of complying with tougher EPA air quality standards could spur an increased shift away from coal and toward natural gas for electricity generation according to a new Duke University study Share This See ... - 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 ...
It sounds like science fiction but a team from the University of Exeter with support from Shell has developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand While the technology still faces many significant ...
By identifying two genes required for transforming inorganic into organic mercury which is far more toxic scientists have just taken a significant step toward protecting human health Share This See Also Genes Human Biology Dentistry Chemistry ...
How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular look has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx The molecule CH5+ is normally not to be described by ...
The research team led by Academy Research Fellow Heikki M Tuononen has been able to identify the mechanism which enables some non metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their metal based counterparts Chemical reactivity ...
Blood flows differently than water Anyone who has ever cut themselves knows that blood flows viscously and rather erratically The similarity between blood and ketchup is something not only filmmakers are aware of Experts refer ...
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Light may recast copper as chemical industry 'holy grail'
Synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass? New Fischer-Tropsch catalyst invented
no picInspired by patents from the 1960s audio cassette recording industry UvA chemists now developed a new Fischer Tropsch catalyst It can be used for the making of synthetic fuels from natural gas and biomass This ... - Read MoreNew Version of Texas Tech's Fibertect(r) Proves Better at Decontaminating Nerve Gas Surrogate in Lab Testing
no picReleased 3 4 2013 11 35 AM ESTSource Newsroom Texas Tech University more news from this source Mar 4 2013 A new version of Fibertect® a nonwoven decontamination wipe created by researchers at Texas Tech ... - Read MoreNew technology for producing hydrogen
Engineers Seek Ways to Convert Methane Into Useful Chemicals
no picReleased 12 20 2012 2 40 PM ESTSource University of Virginia Jan 16 2013 Little more than a decade ago the United States imported much of its natural gas Today the nation is tapping into ... - Read MoreChemical Biology
Spring is like a perhaps hand wrote the poet E E Cummings carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there without breaking anything With the hand of nature trained ...
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
- Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity
- New technique to track cell interactions in living bodies developed
- New device can extract human DNA with full genetic data in minutes
Agrochemistry
Bioenergy crops such as Miscanthus and switchgrass appear to be promising resources for renewable energy but these new crops did not come with a manual on how to measure details on their sustainability impacts Jody ...
- Soil may harbor answer to reducing arsenic in rice
- New plant protein discoveries could ease global food and fuel demands
- Amphibians living close to farm fields are more resistant to common insecticides
- Ecological knowledge offers perspectives for sustainable agriculture
- Smoke signals: How burning plants tell seeds to rise from the ashes
Electrochemistry
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high capacity batteries Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found a graphene boron anode should ...
- New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries
- New battery design could help solar and wind power the grid
- Understanding the Life of Lithium Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles
- Tin nanocrystals for the battery of the future
- Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Topic of Dozens of New Scientific Reports This Week
Nuclear Chemistry
From brain to heart to stomach the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses trace drugs and maybe even read minds Sensors no bigger ...
Natural Product Chemistry
How active a living cell is can be seen by its oxygen consumption The method for determining this consumption has now been significantly improved by chemists in Bochum The problem up to now was that ...
- CO2 Released From Burning Fuel Today Goes Back Into New Fuels Tomorrow
- Carbon dioxide released from burning fuel today goes back into new fuels tomorrow
- New technology measures oxygen in individual red blood cells in real time
- Biobatteries catch breath
- Deforestation triggers carbon collapse of tropical peatlands
Chemical Industry
Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in ArkansasA new study by scientists at Duke University and the U S Geological Survey USGS finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater ...
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Researchers find a way to make steel without greenhouse-gas emissions
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures carbon dioxide
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Theoretical Chemistry
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues ...
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Engineers manipulate a buckyball by inserting a single water molecule
- Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics
- Bold move forward in molecular analyses
- Scientists map all possible drug-like chemical compounds: Library of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize
Spectroscopy
Elucidating energy shifts in optical tweezersPhysicists are providing an all in one guide to help calculate the effect the use of optical tweezers has on the energy levels of atoms under study A small piece of paper sticks to an ...
- Invisible pattern can put a stop to counterfeit designer clothing
- Researchers devise method for enhancing CEST MRI
- Insights into deadly coral bleaching could help preserve reefs: Surprising result from study of 1893 World's Fair corals
- Plasmonics: Model makes light work of nanocircuits
- High-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair
Bioinorganic Chemistry
In Early Earth, Iron Helped RNA Catalyze Electron TransferReleased 5 14 2013 9 50 PM EDTEmbargo expired 5 19 2013 1 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Georgia Institute of Technology Research Communications more news from this source May 19 2013 A new study shows ...
- Sweet success: Catalyzing more sugars from biomass
- DNA catalysts do the work of protein enzymes
- Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hours
- Fungal cleaning crew: Chemists determine the structure of an enzyme that breaks down dyes
- Cure for common hangover? 'Pill' mimics action of human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication
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- In Early Earth, Iron Helped RNA Catalyze Electron Transfer
- Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds
- Add boron for better batteries
- X-ray tomography of living frog embryo
- World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
- Team wins Cubesat berth to gather Earth energy imbalance measurements
- Research into carbon storage in Arctic tundra reveals unexpected insight into ecosystem resiliency
- Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- Carbon in a twirl: The science behind a self-assembled nano-carbon helix
- New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics
- DNA-guided assembly yields novel ribbon-like nanostructures
- Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
- Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
- Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
- Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path
- First precise MEMS output measurement technique unveiled
- Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
- Chemists demonstrate nanoscale alloys so bright they could have potential medical applications
- New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets
- Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
- Electronics comes to paper: Paper, being light and foldable, works well for electrically conducting structures
- Obtaining polymers with à la carte optical and electrical properties
- Friction in the nano-world: Physicists discover a new kind of friction
- Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
- Observation of second sound in a quantum gas
- Better dyes for imaging technology
- Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured: Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized
- Molecular basis of strawberry aroma
- Water governs cell movement: Aquaporins play key role, new research finds
- Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants
- Squishy hydrogels may be the ticket for studying biological effects of nanoparticles
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Zinc: The Goldilocks Metal for Bioabsorbable Stents?
- Research On Cilia Heats Up: Implications For Hearing, Vision Loss And Kidney Disease
- Revealing hidden fungal species using DNA: The importance of recognizing cryptic diversity
- New magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics
- Flawed diamonds promise sensory perfection: Electron spin extended for incredibly tiny magnetic detectors
- Perfectly doped quantum dots yield 'colors to dye for'
- New Test for H7N9 Bird Flu in China May Help Slow Outbreak, Prevent Pandemic
- Loss of eastern hemlock will affect forest water use
- Dust in the clouds: Cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles
- New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries
- Scientists demonstrate pear shaped atomic nuclei
- New advance in biofuel production
- Heady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam
- PCBs are everywhere: Problem exists in industrial city and rural community
- Elevated cadmium levels linked to disease: Men especially affected
- 'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Setting the standard for sustainable bioenergy crops
- PCB concentrations same in urban and rural areas
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