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Individual atoms imaged in a living catalytic reaction
Chemistry riddle solved
Scientists solve titanic puzzle of popular photocatalyst
A breakthrough in our understanding of the properties of titania titanium dioxide the basis of self cleaning window technology has been made by scientists at UCL uncovering a decades old misunderstanding that has clouded our ... - Read MoreCosmochemist May Have Solved Meteorite Mystery
in the cores of the olivine crystals embedded within the chondrules When olivine crystallizes from a liquid of chondrule composition at temperatures of approximately 2 000 degrees Kelvin 3 140 degrees Fahrenheit most sodium remains ... - Read MoreLaser system allows determination of atomic binding energy of the rarest element on Earth
New method to generate Laughlin states with atomic systems
In 1998 the Nobel Prize in Physics was conferred to the discovery of a new type of quantum fluid with fractional charge excitations known as Laughlin state The production of this quantum state which explains ... - Read MoreSolving electron transfer
Electron transfer is a process by which an atom donates an electron to another atom It is the foundation of all chemical reactions and is of intense research because of the implications it has for ... - Read MoreNuke test radiation can fight poachers who kill elephants, rhinos, hippos
Siberian caves warn of permafrost meltdown
Climate records captured in Siberian caves suggest 1.5 degrees of warming is enough to trigger thawing of permafrost according to a paper to be given at the Geological Society of London on 27 June Permafrost ... - Read MoreEfficient and inexpensive: Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells
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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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Detecting homemade explosives, not toothpaste
Spot-welding graphene nanoribbons atom by atom
no picScientists at Aalto University Finland and Utrecht University the Netherlands have created single atom contacts between gold and graphene nanoribbons In their article published in Nature Communications the research team demonstrates how to make electrical ... - Read MoreFossil kangaroo teeth reveal mosaic of Pliocene ecosystems in Queensland
no picThe teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5 5 million years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests wetlands and grasslands and much less arid than previously thought The ... - Read MoreBridge species drive tropical engine of biodiversity
Dance of the atoms: Clustering of atoms observed
Neurochemistry
PET molecular imaging of the brain reveals that ketamine may act as an antidepressant by boosting serotonin activity in brain areas involved in motivation Ketamine is a potent anesthetic employed in human and veterinary medicine ...
Acid-base Chemistry
Rewrite the textbooks on water's surface tension: Air-water interface is negatively charged by the adsorption of hydroxide ionsResearchers from the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney are confident their new reaserach results will make significant differences to the calculations of surface tension of water used by the next generation of atmospheric ...
Chemical Engineering
Stretchable antenna for wearable health monitoringResearchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies such as health monitoring devices Many researchers including our lab have developed prototype sensors for wearable ...
- Effective thermal camouflage and invisibility device for soldiers created
- Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors
- Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure
- Supercomputers join search for 'cheapium': Brute force computing used to find new materials
- New materials with potential biomedical applications
Femtochemistry
Fruit flies, fighter jets use similar nimble tactics when under attackWhen startled by predators tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets employing screaming fast banked turns to evade attacks Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high speed video cameras operating at ...
Medicinal Chemistry
Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatmentA new computer program could help doctors predict which patients might suffer potentially fatal side effects from a key stroke treatment The program which assesses brain scans using pattern recognition software similar to that used ...
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Halving Hydrogen
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- Dartmouth Cancer Researcher on Genetic-Based Testing and Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Pocket diagnosis: App turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device
Agrochemistry
True value of cover crops to farmers, environmentPlanting cover crops in rotation between cash crops widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial is even more valuable than previously thought according to a team of agronomists entomologists agroecologists horticulturists and biogeochemists from Penn State's ...
- A gluttonous plant reveals how its cellular power plant devours foreign DNA
- Risk assessment for pesticides in EU unsuitable for use in field
- How scavenging fungi became a plant's best friend
- Lignin-feasting microbe holds promise for biofuels
- Defending food crops: Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agriculture
Chemical Thermodynamics
Refrigerant in car air conditioners: Refreshingly cool, potentially toxic?The refrigerant R1234yf is being considered for use in air conditioning systems in cars Chemists at Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet LMU in Munich now show that in the event of a fire it releases the highly ...
- Thermal conductance can be controlled like waves using nanostructures
- Heat-based technique offers new way to measure microscopic particles
- Magnetically stimulated flow patterns offer strategy for heat transfer problems
- Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot
- Physicists quantify temperature changes in metal nanowires
Mechanochemistry
Forests crucial to green growthThe value of forests and tree based ecosystems extends far beyond carbon sequestration they are the foundation of sustainable societies A new report launched in Jakarta Indonesia on 21 March the International Day of Forests ...
- Scientists make your stomach turn bright green if you have an ulcer
- Green innovator: Turning chicken feathers and plant fiber into eco-leather, bio-based circuit boards
- Nanoscale friction: High energy losses in the vicinity of charge density waves
- Silkworms spin colored silks while on a 'green' dyed-leaf diet
- New device to revolutionize gaming in virtual realities
Molecular Biology
Cow manure harbors diverse new antibiotic resistance genesManure from dairy cows which is commonly used as a farm soil fertilizer contains a surprising number of newly identified antibiotic resistance genes from the cows' gut bacteria The findings reported in mBio® the online ...
- Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves
- A New Approach to Huntington's Disease?
- Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs
- Shifting Evolution Into Reverse Promises Cheaper, Greener Way to Make New Drugs
- Better way to make unnatural amino acids devised
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- Neuroimaging Technique: Live from inside the cell in real-time
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- Mapping the road to quantum gravity
- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Mantis shrimp stronger than airplanes: Composite material inspired by shrimp stronger than standard used in airplane frames
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- Steering chemical reactions with laser pulses
- Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatment
- Following a protein's travel inside cells is key to improving patient monitoring, drug development
- Gold nanoparticles help target, quantify breast cancer segments in a living cell
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery
- Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves
- Following a Protein's Travel Inside Cells Is a Key to Improving Patient Monitoring and Drug Development
- Halving Hydrogen
- Ecology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream Chemistry
- Refrigerant in car air conditioners: Refreshingly cool, potentially toxic?
- Toward a faster, more accurate way to diagnose stroke
- Recycling astronaut urine for energy and drinking water
- Forever clean? Metal–organic 'micromushrooms' repel all
- Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices
- New self-healing plastics developed
- Virus structure inspires novel understanding of onion-like carbon nanoparticles
- Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
- Bioanalysis: Microbeads are easily fixed
- Fruit flies, fighter jets use similar nimble tactics when under attack
- A modern twist on Young's slits
- Sneak a peek through the mist to technology of the future
- Enzyme 'Wrench' Could Be Key to Stronger, More Effective Antibiotics
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- A New Approach to Huntington's Disease?
- Bamboo-Loving Giant Pandas Also Have a Sweet Tooth
- Engineers design 'living materials': Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light
- Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs
- Shifting Evolution Into Reverse Promises Cheaper, Greener Way to Make New Drugs
- Researcher: Study on Element Could Change Ballgame on Radioactive Waste
- Forests crucial to green growth
- Seal teeth offer glimpse into the environmental past of Russia's Lake Baikal
- Permafrost thaw exacerbates climate change
- Deep ocean current may slow due to climate change
- Making synthetic diamond crystals in plasma reactor
- Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
- Emerging carbon trading markets offer lessons
- It looks like rubber but isn't: What goes on in a concentrated solution of circular polymers?
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