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How does hydrogen metallize?
Removing pollutants and contaminants from wastewater
Climate friendly fuel cells for hydrogen cars have come one step closer
Injectable 'smart sponge' holds promise for controlled drug delivery
Physicists offer novel insight into experimental cancer treatment
Drug delivery: Small packages delivering huge results
Smart anticancer 'nanofiber mesh'
New Catalyst Could Cut Cost of Making Hydrogen Fuel
Released 7 2 2013 2 15 PM EDTSource Newsroom University of Wisconsin Madison more news from this source Jul 2 2013 MADISON – A discovery at the University of Wisconsin Madison may represent a significant ... - Read MoreDesigning a cleaner future: Bicyclean helps recycle e-waste in developing nations
Discovery Sheds Light on Why Alzheimer's Drugs Rarely Help
sticky deposits that build up in the brain that are a visual trademark of the disease The plaques are made of long fibers of a protein called Amyloid β or Aβ Recent studies however suggest ... - 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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New iron catalyst promises green future for hydrogenation
Coatings could help medical implants function better
Life underground: Microbes active far beneath seafloor
no picMicrobes are living more than 500 feet beneath the seafloor in 5 million year old sediment according to new findings by researchers at the University of Delaware and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI Genetic material ... - Read MoreNanofiber sensor detects diabetes or lung cancer faster and easier
Natural Products Drug Discovery Group explores plant potential
no picReleased 6 10 2013 11 15 AM EDTSource Newsroom University of Alabama Huntsville more news from this source Expert Available Jun 10 2013 Consuming caffeine could mute the efficacy of certain cancer drugs and some ... - Read MoreFood Chemistry
Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surfaceConsider the nearest water surface a half full glass on your desk a puddle outside your window or a lake across town All of these surfaces represent liquid vapor interfaces where liquid meets air Molecules ...
- Potentially safer, greener alternative to BPA could come from papermaking waste
- Recovering metals and minerals from waste
- Origin of life: Simulating how Earth kick-started metabolism
- Ultrafast heating of water: This pot boils faster than you can watch it
- FDA to Review Safety of Chemicals in Soaps, Cornell Expert Available
Supramolecular Chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry aka chemistry beyond the molecule in which molecules and molecular complexes are held together by non covalent bonds is just beginning to come into its own with the emergence of nanotechnology Metal organic ...
Medicinal Chemistry
Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatmentA new computer program could help doctors predict which patients might suffer potentially fatal side effects from a key stroke treatment The program which assesses brain scans using pattern recognition software similar to that used ...
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Halving Hydrogen
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- Dartmouth Cancer Researcher on Genetic-Based Testing and Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Pocket diagnosis: App turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device
Chemistry Education
Ecology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream ChemistryReleased 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 ...
Agrochemistry
True value of cover crops to farmers, environmentPlanting cover crops in rotation between cash crops widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial is even more valuable than previously thought according to a team of agronomists entomologists agroecologists horticulturists and biogeochemists from Penn State's ...
- A gluttonous plant reveals how its cellular power plant devours foreign DNA
- Risk assessment for pesticides in EU unsuitable for use in field
- How scavenging fungi became a plant's best friend
- Lignin-feasting microbe holds promise for biofuels
- Defending food crops: Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agriculture
Sonochemistry
Unlocking the brain's secrets using soundThe brain is a reclusive organ Neurons the cells that make up the brain nerves and spinal cord communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials but their interactions are complicated and ...
Environmental Chemistry
Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, FloridaParts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today's California coast and polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean registered 21st century Florida heat according to scientists using a new way to measure past temperatures ...
- Increased infrastructure required for effective oil spill response in U.S. Arctic
- Recycling astronaut urine for energy and drinking water
- Permafrost thaw exacerbates climate change
- Deep ocean current may slow due to climate change
- Ocean's carbon budget balanced: Supply of food to midwater organisms balanced with demands for food
Separation Processes
A portable instrument that replaces a full size laboratory provides accurate multi element analysis in less than a minute Engineers from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and colleagues at the University of ...
- 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
- New technique measures evaporation globally
- 'Chemistry of the Bar' Symposium Focuses on New Orleans' Hurricane Cocktail and More
Theoretical Chemistry
Steering chemical reactions with laser pulsesUsually chemical reactions just take their course much like a ball rolling downhill However it is also possible to deliberately control chemical reactions at the Vienna University of Technology molecules are hit with femtosecond laser ...
- Bright future for protein nanoprobes
- 'Ultracold' molecules promising for quantum computing, simulation
- Big data tackles tiny molecular machines
- A brake for spinning molecules: Precise control of rotational temperature of molecular ions for lab-based astrochemistry
- Ultra sensitive detection of radio waves with lasers
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- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Mantis shrimp stronger than airplanes: Composite material inspired by shrimp stronger than standard used in airplane frames
- Checking up on crude oil in the ground: Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'
- Steering chemical reactions with laser pulses
- Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatment
- Following a protein's travel inside cells is key to improving patient monitoring, drug development
- Gold nanoparticles help target, quantify breast cancer segments in a living cell
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery
- Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves
- Following a Protein's Travel Inside Cells Is a Key to Improving Patient Monitoring and Drug Development
- Halving Hydrogen
- Ecology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream Chemistry
- Refrigerant in car air conditioners: Refreshingly cool, potentially toxic?
- Toward a faster, more accurate way to diagnose stroke
- Recycling astronaut urine for energy and drinking water
- Forever clean? Metal–organic 'micromushrooms' repel all
- Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices
- New self-healing plastics developed
- Virus structure inspires novel understanding of onion-like carbon nanoparticles
- Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
- Bioanalysis: Microbeads are easily fixed
- Fruit flies, fighter jets use similar nimble tactics when under attack
- A modern twist on Young's slits
- Sneak a peek through the mist to technology of the future
- Enzyme 'Wrench' Could Be Key to Stronger, More Effective Antibiotics
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- A New Approach to Huntington's Disease?
- Bamboo-Loving Giant Pandas Also Have a Sweet Tooth
- Engineers design 'living materials': Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light
- Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs
- Shifting Evolution Into Reverse Promises Cheaper, Greener Way to Make New Drugs
- Researcher: Study on Element Could Change Ballgame on Radioactive Waste
- Forests crucial to green growth
- Seal teeth offer glimpse into the environmental past of Russia's Lake Baikal
- Permafrost thaw exacerbates climate change
- Deep ocean current may slow due to climate change
- Making synthetic diamond crystals in plasma reactor
- Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
- Emerging carbon trading markets offer lessons
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