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Climate change and wildfire
Better understanding of water's freezing behavior at nanoscale
The results of a new study led by George Washington University Professor Tianshu Li provide direct computational evidence that nucleation of ice in small droplets is strongly size dependent an important conclusion in understanding water's ... - Read MoreAbundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history
Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rainforest
Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak
Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds
Team wins Cubesat berth to gather Earth energy imbalance measurements
Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Loss of eastern hemlock will affect forest water use
no picThe loss of eastern hemlock from forests in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States could permanently change the area's hydrologic cycle reports a new study by U S Forest Service scientists at the ... - Read MoreDust in the clouds: Cirrus clouds form around mineral dust and metallic particles
The Black Sea is a goldmine of ancient genetic data
Brighter clouds, cooler climate? Organic vapors affect clouds, leading to previously unidentified climate cooling
As climate changes, boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected
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
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
Molecular Biology
The miniaturization of electronics continues to create unprecedented capabilities in computer and communications applications enabling handheld wireless devices with tremendous computing performance operating on battery power This same miniaturization of electronic systems is also creating ...
Polymer Chemistry
New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgetsThe atom sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and faster electronic components Nanotubes are stronger than steel and smaller than any element of silicon based electronics the ubiquitous ...
Theoretical Chemistry
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues ...
- 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
- Bold move forward in molecular analyses
- Scientists map all possible drug-like chemical compounds: Library of millions of small, carbon-based molecules chemists might synthesize
Nuclear Chemistry
From brain to heart to stomach the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses trace drugs and maybe even read minds Sensors no bigger ...
Chemical Industry
Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in ArkansasA new study by scientists at Duke University and the U S Geological Survey USGS finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater ...
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Geologists study mystery of 'eternal flames'
- Researchers find a way to make steel without greenhouse-gas emissions
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures carbon dioxide
- New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO2
Environmental Chemistry
Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate over 100 percent in areas of the West ...
- Better understanding of water's freezing behavior at nanoscale
- Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
- Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history
- Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rainforest
- Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak
Scientific Communication
A new type of soil property maps for Africa has been launched by ISRIC − World Soil Information in Wageningen Netherlands The maps are freely accessible Share This See Also Geography Landslides Acid Rain Global ...
- Collaborations Between Cooks and Chemists Push the Boundaries of Taste
- Global Leaders of $3.5 Trillion Enterprise Gathering for Two Days of Talks
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- Energy and Food Are the Focus of the American Chemical Society Meeting in 'The Big Easy'
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- Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
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- Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history
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- 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
- In Early Earth, Iron Helped RNA Catalyze Electron Transfer
- 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
- Groundwater unaffected by shale gas production in Arkansas
- Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by tropically forced circulation
- Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars
- Nanoscavengers could usher in next generation water purification
- Natural 'keystone molecules' punch over their weight in ecosystems
- Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path
- First precise MEMS output measurement technique unveiled
- Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
- Chemists demonstrate nanoscale alloys so bright they could have potential medical applications
- New uses for tiny carbon nanotubes: Adding ionic liquid to nanotube films could build smaller gadgets
- Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation
- Electronics comes to paper: Paper, being light and foldable, works well for electrically conducting structures
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- Cotton offers a new ecologically friendly way to clean up oil spills
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- Better dyes for imaging technology
- Oxygen consumption of individual cells measured: Scanning electrochemical microscopy decisively optimized
- Molecular basis of strawberry aroma
- Water governs cell movement: Aquaporins play key role, new research finds
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