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Nanodiamonds are forever: Did comet collision leave layer of nanodiamonds across Earth?
Most of North America's megafauna mastodons short faced bears giant ground sloths saber toothed cats and American camels and horses disappeared close to 13 000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene period The ... - Read MoreGlobal warming pioneer calls for carbon dioxide to be taken from atmosphere and stored underground
Wally Broeker the first person to alert the world to global warming has called for atmospheric CO2 to be captured and stored underground He says that carbon capture combined with limits on fossil fuel emissions ... - Read MoreSAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
The oxygen rich surface waters of the world's major oceans are supersaturated with methane a powerful greenhouse gas that is roughly 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide yet little is known about the source ... - Read MoreNASA launches carbon mission to watch Earth breathe
NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2 56 a m PDT 5 56 a m EDT Tuesday July 1 2014 The Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 OCO 2 raced ... - Read MoreHigh carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics
The impact of the greenhouse gas CO2 on Earth's temperature is well established by climate models and temperature records over the past 100 years as well as coupled records of carbon dioxide concentration and temperature ... - Read MoreEmperor penguin in peril: Climate change threatens dramatic declines
An international team of scientists studying Emperor penguin populations across Antarctica finds the iconic animals in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change Their study published today in ... - Read MoreReigning in chaos in particle colliders yields big results
When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed there's bound to be some chaos Limiting that chaos in particle colliders is crucial for the groundbreaking results such experiments are designed ... - Read MoreTo address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions
The politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all according to a comprehensive new study by University of Chicago climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert Among the climate pollutants humans put into the ... - Read MoreHigh CO2 levels cause warming in tropics
The impact of the greenhouse gas CO2 on Earth's temperature is well established by climate models and temperature records over the past 100 years as well as coupled records of carbon dioxide concentration and temperature ... - Read MoreEmperor penguin in peril
An international team of scientists studying Emperor penguin populations across Antarctica finds the iconic animals in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change Their study published today in ... - 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 ...
More Atmospheric Chemistry’s Latest News
Team develops a geothermometer for methane formation
no picMethane is a simple molecule consisting of just one carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms But that simplicity belies the complex role the molecule plays on Earth it is an important greenhouse gas is ... - Read MoreStanley Miller's Forgotten Experiments, Analyzed
no picReleased 6 25 2014 12 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Georgia Institute of Technology more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations National Science Foundation NASA Astrobiology Program NSF CHE ... - Read MoreNo limits to human effects on clouds
no picUnderstanding how clouds affect the climate has been a difficult proposition What controls the makeup of the low clouds that cool the atmosphere or the high ones that trap heat underneath How does human activity ... - Read MoreClimate change: Termites, fungi play more important role in decomposition than temperature
no picClimate change models could have a thing or two to learn from termites and fungi according to a new study released this week For a long time scientists have believed that temperature is the dominant ... - Read MoreState of wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate research
no picScientists know that wildland fire emissions play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and that its principal component carbon dioxide is a primary driver of climate change But predicting and quantifying the effects ... - Read MoreMolecular Biology
An Expanded Genetic Code Is Shown Phototoxic to Cellsas much as 100 times more than produced by the most reactive natural base under ultraviolet light Ultraviolet light can damage the natural bases in DNA but cells have mechanisms to repair most of the ...
Materials Science
In Bird Feathers, Scientists Find Hints About Color of Extinct AnimalsSep 24 2016 In order to discover the true colors of ancient animals scientists are using X rays to closely examine the chemical details of modern bird feathers The researchers were able to map elements ...
- Asphalt-based carbon-capture material advances
- UCLA Chemists Report New Insights About Properties of Matter at the Nanoscale
- 'Sticky waves: ' molecular interactions at the nanoscale
- Quantum Magnets, the Best Biofuel Strain of Switchgrass, Gluons' Influence on Particle Spin, and More from the DOE Office of Science and DOE-Funded National Labs
- Researchers discover new phase of boron nitride and a new way to create pure c-BN
Separation Processes
Discovery Changes How Scientists Examine Rarest Elements of Periodic Tableinto learning more about these elements ” Getting a piece of californium is no easy task though After years of negotiating with the U S Department of Energy Albrecht Schmitt obtained 5 milligrams of californium ...
- Crude oil production: Asphaltene analysis takes a giant step
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Broadening the scope for synthesizing optically active compounds
- Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
- Game changer for synthesizing new materials: Method synthesizes thousands of new compounds with ultra low thermal conductivity
Chemical Engineering
Flexible and transparent pressure sensorHealthcare practitioners may one day be able to physically screen for breast cancer using pressure sensitive rubber gloves to detect tumors owing to a transparent bendable and sensitive pressure sensor newly developed by Japanese and ...
- Queen's University Belfast Scores a World First with Invention of 'Porous Liquid'
- Optimising soft-optoelectronics materials through molecular engineering
- Engineering a multipurpose, environmentally friendly dam
- Fluid-filled pores separate materials with fine precision
- The better to see you with: Prosthetic leg would keep an eye on path ahead
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Food Waste Could Store Solar and Wind Energyerythritol and xylitol both naturally occurring compounds in foods Their findings showed that with one exception heat transfer within a mixture decreased as the nanotube diameter decreased They also found that in general higher density ...
Chemistry Education
On-surface chemistry leads to novel productsOn surface chemical reactions can lead to novel chemical compounds not yet synthesized by solution chemistry The first step second step and third step products can be analyzed in detail using a high resolution atomic ...
- Wayne State Chemistry Professor Earns Prestigious NSF CAREER Award to Examine Unusual Chemical Structures
- Wood-Based Alternatives in Chemistry Fuel Scientific Collaboration
- Mimicking nature's chemistry to solve global environmental problems
- Method to simplify pictures makes chemistry calculations a snap
- OMG Moment Affects GPAs
Food Chemistry
Water helps assembly of biofibers that could capture sunlightWhen it comes to water some materials have a split personality and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy These small assemblies of organic molecules have parts ...
- Microbes Take Their Vitamins - for the Good of Science
- Chemistry Student Seeks to Revolutionize Chocolate Through Research
- New sensor detects spoiled meat
- Just Hit "Print": Office Inkjet Printer Could Produce Simple Tool to Identify Infectious Disease, Food Contaminants
- Engineers develop new yeast strain to enhance biofuel and biochemical production
Electrochemistry
Pioneering Scientists in Battery Technology, Renewable Energy to Be Featured at PRiME 2016Sep 15 2016 Pennington NJ – Sept 14 2016 – Three scientific societies will hold their joint scientific meeting known as PRiME 2016 from Oct 2 7 in Honolulu HI This is the largest most ...
- Chemists Offer Enhanced 3D Look Inside Batteries
- Car roof and battery made with byproducts of paper production
- Researchers Prove Surprising Chemistry Inside a Potential Breakthrough Battery
- Engineer improves rechargeable batteries with nano 'sandwich'
- Beyond the lithium ion: Significant step toward a better performing battery
Polymer Chemistry
2015 Dreyfus Prize Chemist Realizes Vast Commercial Applications from His Polymerization InnovationHumria Remicade Rituxan Avastin and Herceptin ATRP is having a broad application interfacing with biology ATRP has enabled both the controlled synthesis of complex biomimetic polymers and the preparation of bio hybrids The fusion of ...
- Color-Changing Polymer May Signal Traumatic Brain Injuries in Soldiers, Athletes (Video)
- Wrapping carbon nanotubes in polymers enhances their performance
- Squid-inspired 'invisibility stickers' could help soldiers evade detection in the dark
- Molecule from plants could make our roads and roofs 'greener'
- 'Green' batteries made to last: Oxide/carbon composite outperforms expensive platinum composites
