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Super stable garnet ceramics may be ideal for high-energy lithium batteries
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher energy battery designs The ORNL led team used scanning transmission electron ... - Read MoreYEDA R&D and XL-Protein Sign Agreement to Bring Interferon Superagonist to Market
Released 22 Oct 2014 11 00 AM EDTSource Newsroom Weizmann Institute of Science more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Journal of Biological Chemistry 2014 289 29014 29029Oct ... - Read MoreOlive Oil More Stable and Healthful Than Seed Oils for Frying Food
and reused the oil 10 times They found that olive oil was the most stable oil for deep frying at 320 and 374 degrees Fahrenheit while sunflower oil degraded the fastest when pan fried at ... - Read MoreTurning Waste From Whisky-Making Into Fuel -- Close to Commercial Reality?
Released 22 Oct 2014 2 35 PM EDTSource Newsroom American Chemical Society ACS more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Chemical & amp Engineering NewsOct 23 2014 A ... - Read MoreBreeding soybeans that can tolerate heat, drought
Hot dry conditions can wreak havoc on a field of soybeans According to the National Center for Soybean Technology drought is the greatest threat to profitability Work underway at South Dakota State University may change ... - Read MoreArtificial light, biological clock disruptions, increase breast cancer risk, study finds
The disruption of a person's circadian rhythm their 24 hour biological clock has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer according to new University of Georgia research The culprit in this study in ... - Read MoreBreathing sand: New measurement technique detects oxygen supply to bottom of North Sea
New analytical methods show for the first time how the permeable sandy sediment at the bottom of the North Sea is supplied with oxygen and which factors determine the exchange Because the metabolic rate is ... - Read MoreNew study charts the fate of chemicals affecting health, environment
Looking forward in science often requires looking back evaluating trends to extrapolate future outcomes A classic case is Moore's Law which predicts that the density of components on an integrated circuit will double every 24 ... - Read MoreOcean's living carbon pumps: When viruses attack giant algal blooms, global carbon cycles are affected
When we talk about global carbon fixation pumping carbon out of the atmosphere and fixing it into organic molecules by photosynthesis proper measurement is key to understanding this process By some estimates almost half of ... - Read MoreStructure of an iron-transport protein revealed
Iron is the most abundant trace element in humans As a cofactor of certain proteins it plays an essential role in oxygen transport and metabolism Due to the major importance of iron in a wide ... - 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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Goldilocks principle wrong for particle assembly: Too hot and too cold is just right
no picMicroscopic particles that bind under low temperatures will melt as temperatures rise to moderate levels but re connect under hotter conditions a team of New York University scientists has found Their discovery points to new ... - Read MoreCrystallography: Towards controlled dislocations
no picCrystallographic defects or irregularities known as dislocations are often found within crystalline materials Two main types of dislocation exist edge and screw type However dislocations found in real materials tend to be a mix of ... - Read MoreResearchers patent a nanofluid that improves heat conductivity
no picResearchers at the Universitat Jaume I UJI have developed and patented a nanofluid improving thermal conductivity at temperatures up to 400°C without assuming an increase in costs or a remodeling of the infrastructure This progress ... - Read MoreHow radiotherapy kills cancer cells
no picScientists from Queen's University Belfast have been involved in a groundbreaking discovery in the area of experimental physics that has implications for understanding how radiotherapy kills cancer cells among other things Dr Jason Greenwood from ... - Read MoreExtremely high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging
no picFor the first time researchers have succeeded to detect a single hydrogen atom using magnetic resonance imaging which signifies a huge increase in the technology's spatial resolution In the future single atom MRI could be ... - Read More- «
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Food Chemistry
Step change for screening could boost biofuelsResearchers at the Institute of Food Research have developed a new way of rapidly screening yeasts that could help produce more sustainable biofuels The new technique could also be a boon in the search for ...
Neurochemistry
New high-speed 3-D microscope -- SCAPE -- gives deeper view of living thingsOpening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research Elizabeth Hillman associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical Center CUMC has developed a new microscope that can image ...
- Wireless brain sensor could unchain neuroscience from cables
- Small molecule acts as on-off switch for nature's antibiotic factory: Tells Streptomyces to either veg out or get busy
- Fluorescent sensor developed for detecting nitric oxide, a molecule related to many diseases
- Ketamine acts as antidepressant by boosting serotonin
- Scientists decode serotonin receptor at room temperature
Spectroscopy
Frequency combs in molecular fingerprint regionIn an article published in Nature Communications an international collaboration of scientists around Dr Nathalie Picqué Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilians Universität München describes a reliable new technique of producing a ...
Polymer Chemistry
Solar cells to get growth boost, price cutResearchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's OIST Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture solar cells in ambient air gives ...
Environmental Chemistry
Full-annual-cycle models track migratory bird populations throughout the yearIgnoring the wintering ranges of migratory birds when studying their populations is like doing a puzzle with half of the pieces missing In a new Review published this week in The Auk Ornithological Advances Jeffrey ...
- Snffing out origins of methane: instrument identifies methane's origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows
- NASA Ames reproduces the building blocks of life in laboratory
- Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with a more effective carbon capture method
- New models yield clearer picture of emissions' true costs
- Methane oxidation fuelled by algal oxygen production
Scientific Communication
World's challenges demand science changes -- and fast, experts sayWorld's challenges demand science changes and fast experts say The world has little use and precious little time for detached experts A group of scientists each of them experts makes a compelling case in this ...
Chemical Thermodynamics
Supersonic electrons could produce future solar fuelResearchers from institutions including Lund University have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis In a new study they have successfully tracked the electrons' rapid transit through a light converting molecule ...
- Seeing through sparklers: What happens to heat-treated diamonds
- How iron feels the heat
- Nanotubes self-organize and wiggle: Evolution of a nonequilibrium system demonstrates MEPP
- Hot showers, lower power bills with heat pump water heaters: How water heaters are installed impacts total home energy use
- Breakthrough in predictions of pressure-dependent combustion chemical reactions
Supramolecular Chemistry
New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomassUniversity of Tokyo researchers have developed a novel selective catalyst that allows the creation of several basic chemicals from biomass instead of petroleum This discovery may lead to the use of plant biomass as a ...
- Mysteries of 'molecular machines' revealed: Phenix software uses X-ray diffraction spots to produce 3-D image
- A molecular thread: Flexible metal–organic frameworks with a range of pore sizes are made by threading through molecular ligands
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
- Green spaces in cities may increase erosion of building materials such as stone, concrete and steel
- Let there be light: Chemists develop magnetically responsive liquid crystals for writing tablets, billboards and more
Theoretical Chemistry
Chemists develop 'looking glass' for spotting sound molecular structuresNew York University chemists have developed a computational approach for determining the viability and suitability of complex molecular structures an advancement that could aid in the development of pharmaceuticals as well as a range of ...
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