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Time to rethink misguided policies that promote biofuels to protect climate, experts say
Policymakers need to rethink the idea of promoting biofuels to protect the climate because the methods used to justify such policies are inherently flawed according to a University of Michigan energy researcher In a new ... - Read MoreLate Cretaceous Period was likely ice-free
New model should expedite development of temperature-stable nano-alloys
Harnessing the sun's energy with tiny particles
Creating electricity with caged atoms
New steering tech for heavy equipment saves fuel, ups efficiency
Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen into electricity
Non-precious metal catalysts outperforming Pt-based one
Stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display created
Counting on neodymium: Promising candidate for information processing with magnetic molecules
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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 ...
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 ...
All too often when a person takes a pill full of a potent and effective drug the drug passes straight through the body not reaching the organ where it is needed a waste of money ...
With the help of phylogenetic analysis scientists describe three new fungus species from New Zealand The new species belong to the widespread genus Gymnopus part of the Omphalotaceae family the most famous representative of which ...
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New device to revolutionize gaming in virtual realities
New adsorbent is more effective and environmentally friendly for treating wastewater
no picA novel new adsorbent for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater that is more effective reusable and environmentally friendly has been developed by researchers in Temple University's Water and Environmental Technology WET Center The researchers used ... - Read MorePhotosynthesis mechanism: Tofu-like crystalline catalysts for producing clean energy
In water as in love, likes can attract
Theory and formula to improve 'plastic' semiconductors developed
Spectroscopy
The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 to be fully ...
Chemical Physics
Quantum entanglement a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as spooky action at a distance could be even spookier than Einstein perceived Physicists at the University of Washington and Stony ...
Chemical Biology
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd we could make on the fly estimates very likely to be imprecise or we could ask each person to pass through a turnstile ...
- Bait research focused on outsmarting destructive beetle
- Of hurricanes, fungus and Parkinson's disease
- Biosensor could help detect brain injuries during heart surgery
- All aboard the nanotrain network: Tiny self-assembling transport networks, powered by nano-scale motors and controlled by DNA
- Nanotech drug smugglers
Chemical Industry
A new study is examining methane and other components in groundwater wells in advance of drilling for shale gas that's expected over the next several years in an Ohio region Amy Townsend Small a University ...
- Super efficient combustion engine emits half the carbon dioxide
- Butterfly wings inspire new technologies: From fabrics and cosmetics to sensors
- Hydraulic fracturing in Michigan investigated
- Using a form of 'ice that burns' to make potable water from oil and gas production
- Potential well water contaminants highest near natural gas drilling
Physical Organic Chemistry
A theoretical three dimensional 3D form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research team The findings which may significantly advance carbon science are published online ...
Environmental Chemistry
Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface by geoengineering may not undo climate change after all Two German researchers used a simple energy balance analysis to explain how Earth's water cycle responds differently ...
- Experiment is first to simulate warming of Arctic permafrost
- New Jersey Shore likely faces unprecedented flooding by mid-century
- While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Industrial age helps some coastal regions capture carbon dioxide, surprise finding shows
- Living desert underground: In perpetual darkness of limestone cave, surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes
Chemistry Education
Human interaction with robots is about to get a little more personal Meet Furhat the face of tomorrow's interactive technology An increasingly important and sometimes frustrating part of daily life is dealing with so called ...
Chemical Kinetics
Chemical engineers at Rice University have found a new catalyst that can rapidly break down nitrites a common and harmful contaminant in drinking water that often results from overuse of agricultural fertilizers Nitrites and their ...
- Non-precious metal catalysts outperforming Pt-based one
- Simple textiles can be used with catalysts to enable complex chemical reactions
- New low-temperature chemical reaction explained
- Seemingly competitive co-catalysts cooperate to accelerate chemical reaction
- New way to study and improve catalytic reactions
Agrochemistry
Glomeromycota is an ancient lineage of fungi that has a symbiotic relationship with roots that goes back nearly 420 million years to the earliest plants More than two thirds of the world's plants depend on ...
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- Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
- Experiment is first to simulate warming of Arctic permafrost
- New Jersey Shore likely faces unprecedented flooding by mid-century
- Ultrathin 'diagnostic skin' allows continuous patient monitoring
- Electricity from waste heat with more efficient materials
- Researchers create nonlinear light-generating zero-index metamaterial
- How water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule
- Carbon monoxide may help shrink tumors, amplify effectiveness of chemotherapy
- Better water purification with seeds from moringa trees
- DNA helicity, elasticity explained on nanoscale
- Silkworms spin colored silks while on a 'green' dyed-leaf diet
- While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Turning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
- Industrial age helps some coastal regions capture carbon dioxide, surprise finding shows
- Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
- Data centers can be cooled down in environmentally friendly, energy efficient ways
- Accelerated corrosion testing of silver provides clues about performance in atmospheric conditions
- Intense two-color double X-ray laser pulses: Powerful tool to study ultrafast processes
- The promise of nanotechnology
- Amoeboid swimming: Crawling in a fluid
- Molecular sensor detects early signs of multiple sclerosis, study finds
- Diagnostic imaging: New chip provides better all-round performance
- Living desert underground: In perpetual darkness of limestone cave, surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes
- Tracking fracking pollution
- New thermoelectronic generator: Heat energy efficiently converted to electricity
- Companies could make the switch to wood power
- Nanoscale shape-memory oxide discovered: Opens door to applications in medicine, energy and electronics
- 'Spooky action' builds a wormhole between 'entangled' quantum particles
- Optimizing carbon nanotube arrays for use in hot spots
- Face to face with Sweden's social robot
- Sorting Good Germs From Bad, in the Bacterial World
- Microplastics make marine worms sick
- Process holds promise for production of synthetic gasoline from carbon dioxide
- 'Nanosponge vaccine' fights MRSA toxins
- New light shed on solar water-splitting process
- Nanorobot for transporting drugs in the body
- Molecular imaging tracers help determine treatment plans for brain metastases
- Amplifying Our Vision of the Infinitely Small
- Mystery of neutron stars heats up: Previously unknown layers where rapid neutrino cooling occurs
- Snapshots differentiate molecules from their mirror image
- Destroying greenhouse gases in environmentally-friendly way
- New simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena
- From cellulose to textile fiber
- Physicists study coldest objects in universe
- Pills of the future: Nanoparticles; Researchers design drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally
- Pushing limits of light microscopy
- Scientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex
- Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production
- Polymer gel, heal thyself: Engineering team proposes new composites that can regenerate when damaged
- Flexible, stretchable fire-ant rafts
- Better combustion through plasma
- Making a gem of a tiny crystal: Slowly cooled DNA transforms disordered nanoparticles into orderly crystal
- Researchers show how modified pacemaker strengthens failing hearts
- Pills of the future: Nanoparticles
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