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Revealing the healing of 'dino-sores': Examining broken bones in 150-million-year-old predatory dinosaur
Scientists 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 ... - Read MoreEcology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream Chemistry
Released 4 17 2014 10 00 PM EDTEmbargo expired 4 21 2014 3 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged ... - Read MoreModelling modules lead to higher-quality aluminium
The Norwegian project Modelling assisted Innovation for the Aluminium DC Casting Process MINAC has developed modelling tools that show the impact of even minute adjustments to the casting process on casthouse products The aluminium industry ... - Read MoreNew salt compounds challenge the foundation of chemistry
SBU Team Discovers New Compounds that Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry
that even in well defined systems like sodium chloride you can find totally new chemistry and totally new and very exciting materials ” Oganov says “It’s like discovering a new continent now we need to ... - Read MoreFace to face with Sweden's social robot
Breakthrough in study of aluminum should yield new technological advances
Breaking Bad's Addictive Chemistry
and a huge part of the show’s appeal As Pinkman exclaims during an episode of the show’s first season “Yeah Science ” Permalink to this article Comment Share ... - Read MoreConcepts for Houston, Texas flood barrier
Novel Chemistry for New Class of Antibiotic
Released 7 2 2013 10 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom University of Adelaide more news from this source Jul 3 2013 University of Adelaide research has produced a potential new antibiotic which could help in the ... - 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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Organic chemistry: Leading light waves astray
no picThe development of structured synthetic materials with unusual electromagnetic properties so called metamaterials promises to provide access to special physical effects of great technological interest Metamaterials have already been fabricated that have a negative refractive ... - Read MoreWhy going green is good chemistry
Chemistry: Elusive mechanism of widely used click reaction revealed
no picScientists at The Scripps Research Institute TSRI have illuminated the mechanism at the heart of one of the most useful processes in modern chemistry A reaction that is robust and easy to perform it is ... - Read MoreInteractive textbook offers new resource for chemists
no picIndustrial chemists working toward new drugs and other goals as well as organic chemistry students now have a unique new resource to guide them through chemical challenges A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research ... - Read MoreExplosives vapor detection technology: The new 'sniff test'
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
Mechanochemistry
Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding partsResearchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism for wear in metals a swirling fluid like microscopic behavior in a solid piece of metal sliding over another The findings could be used to improve the durability ...
- Green planning needed to maintain city buildings
- Forests crucial to green growth
- Scientists make your stomach turn bright green if you have an ulcer
- Green innovator: Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boards
- Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves
Geochemistry
The quantum dance of oxygen: Proposal for a new phase of the element, when atoms dance in quartetsUnder extremely high pressure conditions oxygen molecules group into quartets and give rise to a dance of their magnetic moments This as observed in a new study carried out by SISSA in collaboration with ICTP ...
- Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages: Slowing of currents may have flipped switch
- Richest marine reptile fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast is dated at 71.5 mya
- Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
- Back to life after 1,500 years: Moss brought back to life after 1,500 years frozen in ice
- First thin films of spin ice reveal cold secrets
Astrochemistry
Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planetsLawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets such as Jupiter Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system Researchers ...
- A more earth-friendly way to make bright white cotton fabrics
- Fierce 2012 magnetic storm just missed us: Earth dodged huge magnetic bullet from the sun
- An experiment recreates the crust of Jupiter's moon Europa
- A new renewable energy source? Device captures energy from Earth's infrared emissions to outer space
- Soil production breaks geologic speed record
Molecular Biology
The electric slide dance of DNA knotsDNA has the nasty habit of getting tangled and forming knots Scientists study these knots to understand their function and learn how to disentangle them e g useful for gene sequencing techniques Cristian Micheletti professor ...
- Scientists Find Protein-Building Enzymes Have Undergone Metamorphosis and Evolved Diverse New Functions
- 'Microbe sniffer' could point way to next-generation bio-refining
- Identifying cyst-laden meat: Sarcocystis thermostable PCR detection kit developed
- Better tissue healing with disappearing hydrogels
- Long-sought molecular map of critical genetic machinery developed
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
Chemical Physics
Quantum leap in lasers brightens future for quantum computingDartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light The laser may play a crucial role in the development of quantum ...
Electrochemistry
Bolstering batteries with nanotubesResearchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost power and durability in lithium ion batteries the energy sources for cell phones laptops and ...
- Charging portable electronics in 10 minutes: New architecture for lithium-ion battery anodes far outperform the current standard
- Controlling thermal conductivities can improve energy storage
- Battery design could reduce electric car weight
- Scientists Pinpoint the Creeping Nanocrystals Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation
- New lithium battery created
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 ...
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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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