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Energy-Efficient Reaction Drives ORNL Biofuel Conversion Technology
Released 3 Nov 2015 11 05 AM ESTSource Newsroom Oak Ridge National Laboratory more news from this source Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Nature Scientific ReportsNov 4 2015 ... - Read MoreScientists Discover Ancient Safety Valve Linking Pollen to Bacteria
but the tubes went on to burst unable to control the pressure that powered their growth The upshot was that pollen without MSL8 didn’t fertilize eggs as well Eric Hamilton a fourth year PhD candidate ... - Read MoreDiscovery of a Highly Efficient Catalyst Eases Way to Hydrogen Economy
and cobalt a metal that is 1 000 times cheaper than platinum Catalysts reduce the energy needed to start a chemical reaction The new catalyst is almost as efficient as platinum and likely shows the ... - Read MoreCapturing and Converting Carbon Dioxide in a Single Step
Released 28 Aug 2015 1 05 PM EDTSource Newsroom Department of Energy Office of Science more news from this source Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations ACS Catalysis 5 ... - Read MoreCombustion's Mysterious "QOOH" Radicals Exposed
Released 28 Aug 2015 2 15 PM EDTSource Newsroom Department of Energy Office of Science more news from this source Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Science 347 643 ... - Read MoreSepsis therapeutic device improved by researchers
Last year a Wyss Institute team of scientists described the development of a new device to treat sepsis that works by mimicking our spleen It cleanses pathogens and toxins from blood circulating through a dialysis ... - Read MoreBetter-Tasting Grocery Store Tomatoes Could Soon Be on Their Way
when the tomatoes are green soon after the process is performed and when they are partially ripened This information will be combined with data on fully ripened tomatoes to help the team develop a better ... - Read More'Diamonds From the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products
Finding a technology to shift carbon dioxide CO2 the most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas from a climate change problem to a valuable commodity has long been a dream of many scientists and government officials Now ... - Read MorePowdered Cranberry Combats Colon Cancer in Mice
Cranberries are often touted as a way to protect against urinary tract infections but that may be just the beginning Researchers fed cranberry extracts to mice with colon cancer and found that the tumors diminished ... - Read MoreColor-Changing Polymer May Signal Traumatic Brain Injuries in Soldiers, Athletes (Video)
turned the polymer purple Cho adds “This force is right in the range of a blast injury or a concussion ” Yang says In future studies Yang plans to develop materials that can indicate how ... - 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 ...
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Could smell hold the key to limiting or ending pesticide use?
no picCould smell hold the key to ending pesticide use UK scientists may have uncovered a natural way of avoiding the use of pesticides and help save plants from attack by recreating a natural insect ... - Read MoreOrigin of life: Chemistry of seabed's hot vents could explain emergence of life
no picHot vents on the seabed could have spontaneously produced the organic molecules necessary for life according to new research by UCL chemists The study shows how the surfaces of mineral particles inside hydrothermal vents have ... - Read MoreTrending Stories Report for 9 April 2015
no picUniversity of the Sciences 821 ... - Read MoreDetecting Lysosomal pH with Better Fluorescent Probes
no picthe chemicals can be toxic The team decreased toxicity by creating new molecules a process called synthesis “Designing a molecule is an art and synthesis is our toolkit ” Zhang explains He goes on to ... - Read MoreCan light therapy help the brain?
no picFollowing up on promising results from pilot work researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System are testing the effects of light therapy on brain function in veterans with Gulf War Illness Veterans in the study ... - Read MoreColloidal Chemistry
Making a Multi-Use, Stiff Carbon Foam Using Breadand biomass such as banana peels can be used to make these foams but they are not very stable are costly to make or have varied inner structures that cannot be adjusted So Yibin Li ...
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
Flavor Chemistry
Meeting Demand for 'Natural' Vanilla Calls for Creativityis synthesized from guaiacol a petrochemical This ratio poses a problem as consumers demand more natural products Responding to the shift major food company Nestlé announced it would eliminate artificial additives which would include vanillin ...
- Could smell hold the key to limiting or ending pesticide use?
- Queen's Scientists Develop First Perfume Which Smells Better the More You Sweat
- Intelligent neuroprostheses mimic natural motor control
- Food Additive Could Serve as a Safer, More Environmentally Friendly Antifreeze
- Early herders' grassy route through Africa: Old teeth show Lake Victoria wasn't tsetse fly habitat
Agrochemistry
Global Food Security, Eating Your Greens Could Help Your Game, Lower Cancer Risk with Ginger and Chili Peppers, and More in the Food Science News Sourceand international appetites –American Society of Agronomy ASA Crop Science Society of America CSSA Soil Science Society of America SSSA |2016 08 31 Researchers have discovered an enzyme that plays a leading role in the ...
- Researchers create synthetic biopathway to turn agriculture waste into 'green' products
- Researchers Create Synthetic Biopathway to Turn Agriculture Waste Into 'Green' Products
- Wildflowers on Farms -- Not Just Crops -- Can Expose Bees to Neonicotinoids
- Microscopic Molecules Can Fight Citrus Greening Bug with Less Insecticides
- Grape Waste Could Make Competitive Biofuel
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
Chemical Physics
Lighting the way to miniature devicesElectromagnetic waves created on a layer of organic molecules could provide the perfect on chip light source for future quantum communication systems A team of scientists including researchers at Agency for Science Technology and Research ...
- Seeing the big picture in photosynthetic light harvesting
- The Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting Is Now Accepting Submissions
- Black holes don’t erase information, scientists say
- Super sensitive measurement of magnetic fields
- Using magnetic fields to understand high-temperature superconductivity
Statistical Mechanics
On quantum scales, there are many second laws of thermodynamicsNew research from UCL and the Universities of Gdansk Singapore and Delft has uncovered additional second laws of thermodynamics which complement the ordinary second law of thermodynamics one of the most fundamental laws of nature ...
- String field theory could be the foundation of quantum mechanics: Connection could be huge boost to string theory
- Scientists propose existence and interaction of parallel worlds: Many Interacting Worlds theory challenges foundations of quantum science
- Electrical control of nuclear spin qubits: Important step towards quantum computers
- Quantum engines must break down
- Reconcilable differences: Study uncovers the common ground of scientific opposites
Environmental Chemistry
Chemistry Says Moon Is Proto-Earth's Mantle, Relocatedbut two have been very influential ” In the original giant impact model the impact melted a part of the Earth and the entire impactor flinging some of the melt outward like clay from a ...
- California Gas Well Blowout Caused Nation's Largest Methane Release, Study Finds
- Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the 'Great Dying'
- Humans settled, set fire to Madagascar's forests 1,000 years ago
- Sound of deep-water animal migration revealed
- Air pollution exposure during pregnancy linked with asthma risk
Neurochemistry
How a Mutant Worm's Reaction to a Foul Smell Could Lead to New Treatment Avenues for Diseaseand remembered it from previous experiments dealing with something totally different ” “Many of science’s great findings are serendipitous ” Yu adds “Our story shows why it’s so important for society to support basic science ...
- How Oxytocin Makes a Mom: Hormone Teaches Maternal Brain to Respond to Offspring's Needs
- New high-speed 3-D microscope -- SCAPE -- gives deeper view of living things
- 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
