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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 ...
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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 ...
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
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Polymer Chemistry
Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mysteryTreating cadmium telluride CdTe solar cell materials with cadmium chloride improves their efficiency but researchers have not fully understood why Now an atomic scale examination of the thin film solar cells led by the Department ...
- It looks like rubber but isn't: What goes on in a concentrated solution of circular polymers?
- Nanotube composites greatly increase efficiency of next generation of solar cells
- Understanding the functioning of a new type of solar cell
- Soil microbes alter DNA in response to warming
- Simple, cheap way to increase solar cell efficiency
Physical Organic Chemistry
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have combined ultrafast time resolved experimental measurements with theory to reveal how an explosive responds to a high impact shock The work involved advances in both ultrafast experimental shock wave ...
Nuclear Chemistry
Researcher: Study on Element Could Change Ballgame on Radioactive Wasteand it’s what Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht Schmitt the lead researcher on the project calls “wicked stuff ” In carefully choreographed experiments Albrecht Schmitt and his colleagues found that californium had amazing abilities to ...
- Seal teeth offer glimpse into the environmental past of Russia's Lake Baikal
- Tiny transistors for extreme environs: Engineers shrink plasma devices to resist radiation
- Magnetic behavior discovery could advance nuclear fusion
- Radiation damage at the root of Chernobyl's ecosystems
- Shale could be long-term home for problematic nuclear waste
Spectroscopy
Vacuum ultraviolet lamp of the future createdA team of researchers in Japan has developed a solid state lamp that emits high energy ultraviolet UV light at the shortest wavelengths ever recorded for such a device from 140 to 220 nanometers This ...
- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Switching an antibiotic on and off with light
- Thermal vision: Graphene light detector first to span infrared spectrum
- Tweaking MRI to track creatine may spot heart problems earlier, study suggests
- Understanding secondary light emission by plasmonic nanostructures may improve medical imaging
Flavor Chemistry
Is there any connection between wine and biodiesel The answer is yes however surprising it may seem Acetals are chemical compounds found in many wines like port for example which give it a unique sweet ...
- Predators affect the carbon cycle, study shows
- Diet likely changed game for some hominids 3.5 million years ago
- Female moths use olfactory signals to choose the best egg-laying sites
- First snapshot of organisms eating each other: Feast clue to smell of ancient Earth
- Do Cells in the Blood, Heart and Lungs Smell the Food We Eat?
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 ...
Materials Science
Surprising material could play huge role in saving energy: Tin selenide is best at converting waste heat to electricityOne strategy for addressing the world's energy crisis is to stop wasting so much energy when producing and using it which can happen in coal fired power plants or transportation Nearly two thirds of energy ...
- New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect
- Impurity size affects performance of emerging superconductive material
- High-performance, low-cost ultracapacitors built with graphene and carbon nanotubes
- Mantis shrimp stronger than airplanes: Composite material inspired by shrimp stronger than standard used in airplane frames
- Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices
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
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