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Gold nanoparticles give an edge in recycling carbon dioxide
Avian Influenza Virus Detection Using Smell
Released 10 11 2013 5 00 PM EDTEmbargo expired 10 16 2013 5 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Monell Chemical Senses Center more news from this source Oct 17 2013 PHILADELPHIA October 16 2013 New research ... - Read MoreResearchers "Fish New Pond" for Antibiotics
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 ... - Read MoreCrystal Mysteries Spiral Deeper
crystals with one screw dislocation seemed to form stacked hexagonal “islands” while those with two proximal screw dislocations produced a six sided spiral staircase A re examination of these micrographs by Molecular Design Institute scientist ... - Read More2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Highlights the Cross-Disciplinary Nature of Today's Research Environment
Released 10 9 2013 3 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom American Institute of Physics AIP more news from this source Oct 10 2013 Melville NY October 9 2013 Martin Karplus Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel have ... - Read MoreScientists Battle Herbicide Resistance
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Climate change: Fast out of the gate, slow to the finish the gate
Biochar quiets microbes, including some plant pathogens
Cold, salty and promiscuous: Gene-shuffling microbes dominate Antarctica's Deep Lake
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
All too often when a person takes a pill full of a potent and effective drug the drug passes straight through the body not reaching the organ where it is needed a waste of money ...
With the help of phylogenetic analysis scientists describe three new fungus species from New Zealand The new species belong to the widespread genus Gymnopus part of the Omphalotaceae family the most famous representative of which ...
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Water vapor in stratosphere plays role in climate
no picWater vapor changes in the stratosphere contribute to warmer temperatures and likely play an important role in the evolution of Earth's climate says a research team led by a Texas A& amp M University professor ... - Read MoreIngredient of household plastic found in space
Erratic proteins: New insights into a transport mechanism
Engineers invent programming language to build synthetic DNA
New metabolic pathway to more efficiently convert sugars into biofuels
Acid-base Chemistry
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new drape made from graphene the thinnest material known to science which can enhance the water resistant properties of materials with rough surfaces These nanodrapes are ...
Geochemistry
When it comes to the growth of graphene an ultrathin ultrastrong all carbon material it is survival of the fittest according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin The team used surface oxygen ...
- Study uses neutron scattering, supercomputing to demystify forces at play in biofuel production
- Breathing underwater: Evidence of microscopic life in oceanic crust
- A completely new atomic crystal dynamic of the white pigment titanium dioxide discovered
- Plasmonic black metals: Breakthrough in solar energy research?
- Cosmochemist May Have Solved Meteorite Mystery
Nuclear Chemistry
Mystery of neutron stars heats up: Previously unknown layers where rapid neutrino cooling occursUntil now scientists were pretty sure they knew how the surface of a neutron star a super dense star that forms when a large star explodes and its core collapses into itself can heat itself ...
Medicinal Chemistry
Loofahs best known for their use in exfoliating skin to soft radiant perfection have emerged as a new potential tool to advance sustainability efforts on two fronts at the same time energy and waste The ...
Molecular Biology
Researchers from CNRS Inserm and Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble have developed a particularly simple model that reproduces the swimming mechanism of amoebas They show that by changing shape these single cell organisms propel themselves forward ...
- Scientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex
- Researchers use nanoscale 'patches' to sensitize targeted cell receptors
- SlipChip counts molecules with chemistry and a cell phone
- Single-cell genome sequencing gets better
- RNA controls splicing during gene expression, further evidence of 'RNA world' origin in modern life
Supramolecular Chemistry
For some the disease multiple sclerosis MS attacks its victims slowly and progressively over a period of many years For others it strikes without warning in fits and starts But all patients share one thing ...
Theoretical Chemistry
Small difference large effect Most biological molecules occur in two variants an original and its mirror image As a result they are related to one another like the left hand to the right For instance ...
Bioorganic Chemistry
Dye absorption structure of dye-sensitized solar cells elucidated on molecular level: Success in dye absorption structure controlNIMS researchers elucidated the relationship between the photocurrent and the peculiar changes in the absorption structure occurring in the vicinity of the molecular electrode interface in dye sensitized solar cells The Organic Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaics ...
- 'X-shape' not true picture of chromosome structure, new imaging technique reveals
- Molecular structure reveals how HIV infects cells
- RNA double helix structure identified using synchrotron light
- Sorting out Parkinson's protein structure: Computer modeling may offer hints for new drug-design strategies
- Advance in describing the conformation of proteins that do not have a defined structure
Chemical Biology
If we wanted to count the number of people in a crowd we could make on the fly estimates very likely to be imprecise or we could ask each person to pass through a turnstile ...
- Bait research focused on outsmarting destructive beetle
- Of hurricanes, fungus and Parkinson's disease
- Biosensor could help detect brain injuries during heart surgery
- All aboard the nanotrain network: Tiny self-assembling transport networks, powered by nano-scale motors and controlled by DNA
- Nanotech drug smugglers
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- Turning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
- Industrial age helps some coastal regions capture carbon dioxide, surprise finding shows
- Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
- Data centers can be cooled down in environmentally friendly, energy efficient ways
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- Intense two-color double X-ray laser pulses: Powerful tool to study ultrafast processes
- The promise of nanotechnology
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- Diagnostic imaging: New chip provides better all-round performance
- Living desert underground: In perpetual darkness of limestone cave, surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes
- Tracking fracking pollution
- New thermoelectronic generator: Heat energy efficiently converted to electricity
- Companies could make the switch to wood power
- Nanoscale shape-memory oxide discovered: Opens door to applications in medicine, energy and electronics
- 'Spooky action' builds a wormhole between 'entangled' quantum particles
- Optimizing carbon nanotube arrays for use in hot spots
- Face to face with Sweden's social robot
- Sorting Good Germs From Bad, in the Bacterial World
- Microplastics make marine worms sick
- Process holds promise for production of synthetic gasoline from carbon dioxide
- 'Nanosponge vaccine' fights MRSA toxins
- New light shed on solar water-splitting process
- Nanorobot for transporting drugs in the body
- Molecular imaging tracers help determine treatment plans for brain metastases
- Amplifying Our Vision of the Infinitely Small
- Mystery of neutron stars heats up: Previously unknown layers where rapid neutrino cooling occurs
- Snapshots differentiate molecules from their mirror image
- Destroying greenhouse gases in environmentally-friendly way
- New simulatable model displaying exotic quantum phenomena
- From cellulose to textile fiber
- Physicists study coldest objects in universe
- Pills of the future: Nanoparticles; Researchers design drug-carrying nanoparticles that can be taken orally
- Pushing limits of light microscopy
- Scientists stitch up photosynthetic megacomplex
- Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production
- Polymer gel, heal thyself: Engineering team proposes new composites that can regenerate when damaged
- Flexible, stretchable fire-ant rafts
- Better combustion through plasma
- Making a gem of a tiny crystal: Slowly cooled DNA transforms disordered nanoparticles into orderly crystal
- Researchers show how modified pacemaker strengthens failing hearts
- Pills of the future: Nanoparticles
- Breathalyzers Could Test Blood Sugar
- Even if emissions stop, carbon dioxide could warm Earth for centuries
- Rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to ancient mass extinction
- Methane emissions vastly surpass previous estimates
- How scavenging fungi became a plant's best friend
- Ancient minerals: Which gave rise to life?
- How losing information can benefit quantum computing
- Copper promises cheaper, sturdier fuel cells
- Carbon capture and storage: An inside look at a metal-organic framework (MOF) in action
- Step closer to composite-based electronics
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