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New global maps of livestock distribution
Led by Marius Gilbert Interfaculty School of Bioengineering Université libre de Bruxelles and Tim Robinson ILRI Kenya an international researcher team established new global maps of livestock distribution This study should help to measure the ... - Read MoreA more earth-friendly way to make bright white cotton fabrics
With a growing number of consumers demanding more Earth friendly practices from the fashion world scientists are developing new ways to produce textiles that could help meet rising expectations They report in the ACS journal ... - Read MoreCommon semiconductors stabilized for solar fuels generation
Researchers around the world are trying to develop solar driven generators that can split water yielding hydrogen gas that could be used as clean fuel Such a device requires efficient light absorbing materials that attract ... - Read MoreSolar panel manufacturing is greener in Europe than China, study says
Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe said a new study from Northwestern University and the ... - Read MoreQuantum mechanisms of organic devices for alternative solar panels are revealed
Silicon panel based technology requires a very costly contaminating manufacturing process while organic photovoltaic OPV devices have been positioned as one of the most attractive alternatives as a source of solar energy This research has ... - Read MoreCaught by a hair: Quick, new identification of hair may help crime fighters
Crime fighters could have a new tool at their disposal following promising research by Queen's professor Diane Beauchemin Dr Beauchemin Chemistry and student Lily Huang MSc'15 have developed a cutting edge technique to identify human ... - Read MoreFirst real time movies of the light-to-current conversion in an organic solar cell
Photovoltaic cells directly convert sun light into electricity and hence are key technological devices to meet one of the challenges that humankind has to face in this century a sustainable and clean production of renewable ... - Read MoreCompounds in Saliva and Common Body Proteins May Fend Off DNA-Damaging Chemicals in Tea, Coffee and Liquid Smoke
Released 5 30 2014 12 30 PM EDTSource Newsroom Johns Hopkins Medicine more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Food and Chemical Toxicology CA62924May 31 2014 A compound ... - Read MoreBabbling brooks adding to climate change?
Studying stream bubbles isn't exactly a walk in the park What with the mud and ticks the long days hiking and swimming through mucky streams the sun exposure and scratching brush But in the end ... - Read MoreBuried fossil soils found to be awash in carbon
Soils that formed on Earth's surface thousands of years ago and that are now deeply buried features of vanished landscapes have been found to be rich in carbon adding a new dimension to our planet's ... - 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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Vines choke a forest's ability to capture carbon
no picTropical forests are a sometimes underappreciated asset in the battle against climate change They cover seven percent of land surface yet hold more than 30 percent of Earth's terrestrial carbon As abandoned agricultural land in ... - Read MoreRules to cut carbon emissions also reduce air pollution harmful to people, environment
no picSetting strong standards for climate changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick damage forests crops and lakes and harm fish and ... - Read MoreLarge muskies lured by the moon: Study ties lunar cycles, fish behavior to angler success
no picThe lunar cycle may synchronize with feeding activity luring large muskies to take angler bait according to results published May 28 2014 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mark Vinson from U S ... - Read MoreMicroalgae capable of assimilating ammonia resulting from the management of agrifood waste
no picThe Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development Neiker Tecnalia the public body that reports to the Sub Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Policy of the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community has confirmed ... - Read MoreParticles near absolute zero do not break the laws of physics after all
no picA change of models demystifies anomalous particle behaviour at very low temperatures confirming that the third law of thermodynamics has not been violated In theory the laws of physics are absolute However when it comes ... - Read More- «
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Chemical Kinetics
Water-cleanup catalysts tackle biomass upgradingRice University chemical engineer Michael Wong has spent a decade amassing evidence that palladium gold nanoparticles are excellent catalysts for cleaning polluted water but even he was surprised at how well the particles converted biodiesel ...
Physical Organic Chemistry
Directly visualizing hydrogen bondsUsing a newly developed ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize the coordinated vibrations between hydrogen bonded molecules the first time this sort of chemical ...
Bioorganic Chemistry
Atomic structure of key muscle component revealedActin is the most abundant protein in the body and when you look more closely at its fundamental role in life it's easy to see why It is the basis of most movement in the ...
Agrochemistry
A Natural Way to Monitor, and Possibly Control Populations of, Stink BugsReleased 16 Jul 2014 4 20 PM EDTSource Newsroom American Chemical Society ACS more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Journal of Natural ProductsJul 17 2014 Anyone who ...
Environmental Chemistry
Getting a charge out of water droplets: Water jumping from a superhydrophobic surface can be harnessed to produce electricityLast year MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation they can gain electric charge in the process Now the same team has demonstrated that this process can ...
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- SAR11, oceans' most abundant organism, has ability to create methane
- Ironing out details of the carbon cycle: Dissolved iron in North Atlantic traced to Sahara desert
- NASA launches carbon mission to watch Earth breathe
- High carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics
Astrochemistry
Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planetsLawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets such as Jupiter Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system Researchers ...
- A more earth-friendly way to make bright white cotton fabrics
- Fierce 2012 magnetic storm just missed us: Earth dodged huge magnetic bullet from the sun
- An experiment recreates the crust of Jupiter's moon Europa
- A new renewable energy source? Device captures energy from Earth's infrared emissions to outer space
- Soil production breaks geologic speed record
Synthetic chemistry
Cost-effective, solvothermal synthesis of heteroatom (S or N)-doped graphene developedA research team led by group leader Yung Eun Sung has announced that they have developed cost effective technology to synthesize sulfur doped and nitrogen doped graphenes which can be applied as high performance electrodes ...
Scientific Communication
Highlights for 2014 National Meeting of World's Largest Scientific SocietyJournalists registering for the American Chemical Society’s ACS’ 248th National Meeting & amp Exposition this summer will have an abundance of material to mine for their news stories Nearly 12 000 presentations are planned on ...
- Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors
- Princess and the Pea? Invisibility cloak prevents an object from being felt
- Unprecedented 3-D view of important brain receptor
- Snowballs to soot: The clumping density of many things seems to be a standard
- Understanding biomechanics behind amazing ant strength opens door to advanced robotics
Geochemistry
The quantum dance of oxygen: Proposal for a new phase of the element, when atoms dance in quartetsUnder extremely high pressure conditions oxygen molecules group into quartets and give rise to a dance of their magnetic moments This as observed in a new study carried out by SISSA in collaboration with ICTP ...
- Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages: Slowing of currents may have flipped switch
- Richest marine reptile fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast is dated at 71.5 mya
- Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
- Back to life after 1,500 years: Moss brought back to life after 1,500 years frozen in ice
- First thin films of spin ice reveal cold secrets
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- Making quantum connections: The speed of information in a spin network
- Silicon oxide for better computer memory: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability
- Neutron crystallography resolves long-standing molecular mystery
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