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New method for tailoring optical processors
Elucidating energy shifts in optical tweezers
Physicists 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 ... - Read MoreInvisible pattern can put a stop to counterfeit designer clothing
Researchers devise method for enhancing CEST MRI
Researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center have created a novel way to enhance MRI by reducing interference from large macromolecules that can often obscure images generated by current chemical exchange saturation ... - Read MoreInsights 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
As computer manufacturers cram ever more processing power onto tiny chips they face a growing problem The connections between electronic components that measure just a few billionths of a meter across allow electrons to leak ... - Read MoreHigh-resolution endoscope as thin as a human hair
Device may lead to quicker, more efficient diagnostics
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An old material gets a new name and with it topological insulators have another chance to shine Samarium hexaboride SmB6 has been around since the late 1960s but understanding its low temperature behavior has remained ...
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Chemical Biology
A new tension gauge tether TGT laboratory method developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has broad applications for research into stem cells cancer infectious disease and immunology Cells in the human body ...
- Fast new, one-step genetic engineering technology
- Single-cell transfection tool enables added control for biological studies
- Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
- 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
Chemical Physics
Optics: Statistics light the wayA revelation of how photoreceptive cells in the eye distinguish between different light sources could pave the way for a novel class of optical devices Millions of years of evolution have molded our eyes into ...
- Observation of second sound in a quantum gas
- Perfectly doped quantum dots yield 'colors to dye for'
- Device for portable, ultra-precise clocks and quantum sensors developed
- Graphene quantum dots may someday tell if it will rain on Mars
- Best of both worlds: Towards a quantum internet with combined optical and electrical technique
Geochemistry
Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth's Surfacewas subducted into the mantle more than 2.5 billion years ago and recycled into the mantle source of the Mangaia lavas ” said Rita Cabral the study’s primary author and a graduate student in Boston ...
- Unique sulfur isotopes in plume lavas reveal deep mantle storage of archean crust
- Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
- Unique Sulfur Isotopes in Plume Lavas Reveal Deep Mantle Storage of Archean Crust
- Discovery of 1,800-year-old 'Rosetta Stone' for tropical ice cores
- Thin clouds drove Greenland's record-breaking 2012 ice melt
Food Chemistry
Water gives life Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show how the cells in our bodies are driven mainly by water power a discovery that in the long run opens the way for a ...
- Competing for milk can be a stressful thing for hyena twin siblings
- 'Seeing' the Flavor of Foods
- Revealing the Scientific Secrets of Why People Can't Stop After Eating One Potato Chip
- High Levels of Lead Detected in Rice Imported From Certain Countries
- Major Symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water Supplies
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
Spectroscopy
Rice University scientists have unveiled a robust new method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors that transform incoming light signals into output of a different color The breakthrough ...
- Elucidating energy shifts in optical tweezers
- 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
Theoretical Chemistry
Detecting mirror molecules: New technique reliably tells left-handed from right-handed variant of a compoundHarvard physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important though time consuming processes in analytical chemistry As described ...
- Unique method creates correct mirror image of molecule
- World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
- 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
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
Synthetic chemistry
Carbon capture: Making use of mineralsAmmonium salts could provide a viable way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via carbon mineralization Removing excess carbon dioxide CO2 from the atmosphere may be essential to curb severe climate change Possible but ...
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- Fast new, one-step genetic engineering technology
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- Vast methane-based ecosystem uncovered
- New technique may open up an era of atomic-scale semiconductor devices
- Volcanoes cause climate gas concentrations to vary
- Top-class biofuel from the depths of the forest
- Unique method creates correct mirror image of molecule
- Polymer breakthrough inspired by trees and ancient celtic knots
- Study Links Chemicals Widely Found in Plastics and Processed Food to Elevated Blood Pressure in Children and Teens
- Climate change and wildfire
- Bacterial spare parts filter antibiotic residue from groundwater
- Better understanding of water's freezing behavior at nanoscale
- Engineers devise new way to produce clean hydrogen
- New method for producing clean hydrogen
- New method for tailoring optical processors
- Scientists uncover how grapefruits provide a secret weapon in medical drug delivery
- Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
- Single-cell transfection tool enables added control for biological studies
- Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history
- How gold nanoparticles can help fight ovarian cancer
- Opening doors to foldable electronics with inkjet-printed graphene
- Non-wetting fabric that drains sweat invented
- Origins of life: In early Earth, iron helped RNA catalyze electron transfer
- Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rainforest
- Fastest measurements ever made of ion channel proteins
- Kinks and curves at the nanoscale: New research shows 'perfect twin boundaries' are not so perfect
- Nanoantennas improve infrared sensing
- Advance in nanotech gene sequencing technique
- Bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity
- Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak
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- 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
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