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Determining the quantum geometry of a crystal
Volume of nuclear waste could be reduced by 90 percent, says new research
The researchers from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering have shown that mixing plutonium contaminated waste with blast furnace slag and turning it into glass reduces its volume by 85 95 per cent It ... - Read MoreNew compact atomic clock design uses cold atoms to boost precision
Three-dimensional carbon goes metallic
Carbon nanotube jungles created to better detect molecules
Spider's super-thin ribbons key to silk tech
Bringing out the best in X-ray crystallography data
Resistance Is Futile: Chemists Develop New Way to Kill Cancer Cells Resistant to the Chemotherapy Drug Cisplatin
cell organelles that generate energy These structures have their own DNA inherited only from the mother which is essential for mitochondrial function Because mitochondria are involved in apoptosis the researchers wanted to see whether they ... - Read MoreLasers might lead to cure for brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
Nanotube-based sensors can be implanted under the skin for a year
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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 ...
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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Tapping fungus to unlock energy: Crafting a better enzyme cocktail to turn plants into fuel faster
Designer piercings: New membrane pores with DNA nanotechnology
no picA new way to build membrane crossing pores using Lego like DNA building blocks has been developed by scientists at UCL in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and the University of Southampton ... - Read MoreResearchers Explore Natural Solution to Rid Plumbing of Pathogens
no picReleased 11 4 2013 8 00 AM ESTSource Newsroom Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University more news from this source Nov 5 2013 Microbes are everywhere – thousands of species are in your ... - Read MoreCan an oil bath solve the mysteries of the quantum world?
no picFor the past eight years two French researchers have been bouncing droplets around a vibrating oil bath and observing their unique behaviour What sounds like a high school experiment has in fact provided the first ... - Read MoreNASA advances world's first spaceborne sodium lidar: Small-scale measurements of Earth's mesosphere sought
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Theoretical Chemistry
Chemists find a way to unboil egg whites: Ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotechnology costsUC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry ...
- Visualizing interacting electrons in a molecule
- Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls
- Liquids and glasses relax, too -- but not like you thought
- Novel inorganic material emitting laser light in solution discovered
- From the bottom up: Manipulating nanoribbons at the molecular level
Acid-base Chemistry
'Seeing' hydrogen atoms to unveil enzyme catalysis that may play key role in cancer drug developmentEnzymes are catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms and control many cellular biological processes by converting a molecule or substrate into a product used by the cell For scientists understanding details of ...
- "Seeing" Hydrogen Atoms to Unveil Enzyme Catalysis
- Chemists identify role of soil in pollution control
- New material makes water and oil roll off
- Single-atom gold catalysts may offer path to low-cost production of fuel and chemicals
- 'Superglue' for the atmosphere: How sulfuric acid increases cloud formation
Synthetic chemistry
Programmed synthesis towards multi-substituted benzene derivativesChemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio Molecules ITbM Nagoya University and the JST ERATO Project have developed a new method to accomplish the programmed synthesis of benzene derivatives with five or six different functional ...
- Chromium-centered cycloparaphenylene rings as new tools for making functionalized nanocarbons
- New technique helps probe performance of organic solar cell materials
- Fine motor skills for robotic hands
- Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects
- Melting glaciers have big carbon impact
Medicinal Chemistry
Novel radioguided brain surgery technique could help pinpoint cancerous tissueRadioguided surgery RGS allows the surgeon to evaluate the completeness of a tumor resection while minimizing the amount of healthy tissue removed During the procedure a surgeon is provided with vital and real time information ...
- Antibiotics, bacteria, resistance genes found in dust from feedlots
- New Research Unlocks How Melanoma Can Resist Newly Approved Drug Combo Therapy
- Drugs from dirt: Scientists develop first global roadmap for drug discovery
- New 'microcapsules' have potential to repair damage caused by osteoarthritis
- Portable stimulator being tested on Parkinson's patients
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
Chemical Biology
Detecting chemical weapons quickly with a color-changing filmIn today's world in which the threat of terrorism looms there is an urgent need for fast reliable tools to detect the release of deadly chemical warfare agents CWAs In the journal ACS Macro Letters ...
Mechanochemistry
WHACK! Study measures head blows in girls' lacrosseLacrosse players swing hard which is why errant stick blows are the leading cause of concussion in girls' and women's lacrosse In a new study researchers measured how much the worst blows accelerate the head ...
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Solving a case of intercellular entrapmentOptogenetics which uses light to control cellular events is poised to become an important technology in molecular biology and beyond The Reich Group in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has made a ...
- That smartphone is giving your thumbs superpowers
- Optogenetics: Identifying new targets for intervention
- Complementary light switchable proteins and superresolution reveal moving protein complexes in live cells at single molecule level
- Quantum mechanical calculations reveal the hidden states of enzyme active sites
- The dodo: New insights into an old bird
Spectroscopy
Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block lightResearchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have experimentally demonstrated for the first time the phenomenon of Brillouin Scattering Induced Transparency BSIT which can be used to slow down speed up and block ...
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- Global warming doubles risk of extreme La Niña event, research shows
- Easter Island mystery: Why did the native culture die out?
- Smothered oceans: Extreme oxygen loss in oceans accompanied past global climate change
- Programmed synthesis towards multi-substituted benzene derivatives
- Chromium-centered cycloparaphenylene rings as new tools for making functionalized nanocarbons
- 'Bulletproof' Battery: Kevlar Membrane for Safer, Thinner Lithium Rechargeables
- Researchers tune friction in ionic solids at the nanoscale
- Nanoscale mirrored cavities amplify, connect quantum memories
- Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block light
- Holes in valence bands of nanodiamonds discovered: Potential catalysts for splitting water
- Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field
- Detecting chemical weapons quickly with a color-changing film
- Spiky 'hedgehog particles' for safer paints, fewer VOC emissions
- Researchers produce two bio-fuels from a single algae
- Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply
- Cell imaging gets colorful
- Novel radioguided brain surgery technique could help pinpoint cancerous tissue
- The origin of life: Labyrinths as crucibles of life
- New mechanism unlocked for evolution of green fluorescent protein
- Demystifying nanocrystal solar cells
- No Joke: Chemistry Thesis Transmuted Into Comic Book
- Spiky 'Hedgehog Particles' for Safer Paints, Fewer VOC Emissions
- Converting olive mash into cash
- Faster annotation system for prokaryotic genomes unveiled
- Chemists find a way to unboil egg whites: Ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotechnology costs
- Nanoshuttle wear and tear: It’s the mileage, not the age
- Visualizing interacting electrons in a molecule
- Researchers identify materials to improve biofuel, petroleum processing
- Lead negatively impacts cognitive functions of boys more than girls
- Promising drug candidate protects against radiation exposure from nuclear fallout
- More light shed on on biomass breakdown
- Using less fish to test chemicals safety
- The latest fashion: Graphene edges can be tailor-made
- Ocean could hold key to predicting recurring extreme winters
- Scientists search for new ways to deal with U. S. uranium ore processing legacy
- New technique helps probe performance of organic solar cell materials
- Boston's leaky pipes release high levels of heat-trapping methane
- Fossils survive volcanic eruption to tell us about the origin of the Canary Islands
- Soils could keep contaminants in wastewater from reaching groundwater, streams
- Antibiotics, bacteria, resistance genes found in dust from feedlots
- New research re-creates planet formation, super-Earths and giant planets in the laboratory
- Path to artificial photosynthesis? Manganese catalyst's electronic states characterized
- Scientists set quantum speed limit
- Fine motor skills for robotic hands
- Gold 'nano-drills' help with DNA analysis
- Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls
- Scientists 'bend' elastic waves with new metamaterials that could have commercial applications
- New conductive coatings for flexible touchscreens
- Electroluminescent light sheets: Printable luminous particles enable cost-effective, large and curved luminous surfaces
- Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects
- Sequestration on shaky ground: Natural impediment to long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide
- Watching protein crystal nucleation in real time
- Self-assembled nanotextures create antireflective surface on silicon solar cells
- Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions
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