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Barrier films used in everything from food and drug packaging to consumer electronics and solar cells help prevent your food from spoiling help to preserve medication and protect your electronics from damage due to exposure ... - Read More'Molecular Velcro' may lead to cost-effective alternatives to natural antibodies
World's most powerful terahertz quantum cascade laser
Rare earths in bacteria: Methane-decomposing bacteria from hot springs need the valuable metals to produce energy
Incurable brain cancer gene silenced: Gene regulation technology increases survival rates in mice with glioblastoma
Toxic ocean conditions during major extinction 93.9 million years ago quantified: Doesn't take much sulfide to impact ocean life
Paleontologist presents origin of life theory
Earthworms invade New England
Nanotech system, cellular heating may improve treatment of ovarian cancer
The combination of heat chemotherapeutic drugs and an innovative delivery system based on nanotechnology may significantly improve the treatment of ovarian cancer while reducing side effects from toxic drugs researchers at Oregon State University report ... - Read MoreStraw could supply energy to millions of households
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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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no picVast energy sources are slumbering below big cities Sustainable energies for heating in winter and cooling in summer may be extracted from heated groundwater aquifers Researchers from KIT and ETH Zurich developed an analytical heat ... - Read MoreQuantum reality more complex than previously thought
Spinning atoms in light crystals
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Flavor Chemistry
Is there any connection between wine and biodiesel The answer is yes however surprising it may seem Acetals are chemical compounds found in many wines like port for example which give it a unique sweet ...
- Predators affect the carbon cycle, study shows
- Diet likely changed game for some hominids 3.5 million years ago
- Female moths use olfactory signals to choose the best egg-laying sites
- First snapshot of organisms eating each other: Feast clue to smell of ancient Earth
- Do Cells in the Blood, Heart and Lungs Smell the Food We Eat?
Chemical Kinetics
Chemical engineers at Rice University have found a new catalyst that can rapidly break down nitrites a common and harmful contaminant in drinking water that often results from overuse of agricultural fertilizers Nitrites and their ...
- Non-precious metal catalysts outperforming Pt-based one
- Simple textiles can be used with catalysts to enable complex chemical reactions
- New low-temperature chemical reaction explained
- Seemingly competitive co-catalysts cooperate to accelerate chemical reaction
- New way to study and improve catalytic reactions
Scientific Communication
The University of Oklahoma Natural Products Discovery Group has taken an unconventional approach to finding new compounds with therapeutic relevance by launching a crowdsourcing initiative with citizen scientists from around the country With this approach ...
- 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Highlights the Cross-Disciplinary Nature of Today's Research Environment
- 'Celebrate Science' Events Next Sunday Open to the Public
- A close Bond: How the CIA exploited 007 for gadget ideas and public relations
- Scientists reveal structure of a supercooled liquid
- New generation soil property maps for Africa
Photochemistry
Research by Professor Jian Ren Shen at Okayama University demystifies the reaction mechanisms of photosynthesis and the findings may lead to the development of methods for producing an unlimited source of clean energy Professor Jian ...
- General in the Solar Army to High School and College Students: 'We Are Recruiting'
- Off-grid sterilization with 'solar steam'
- Purple sunlight eaters: Microorganisms found in salt flats could offer new path to green hydrogen fuel
- Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem
- New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Nanorobot for transporting drugs in the bodyA nanorobot is a popular term for molecules with a unique property that enables them to be programmed to carry out a specific task In collaboration with colleagues in Italy and the USA researchers at ...
Agrochemistry
Glomeromycota is an ancient lineage of fungi that has a symbiotic relationship with roots that goes back nearly 420 million years to the earliest plants More than two thirds of the world's plants depend on ...
Materials Science
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre World War II computer technology and combining this with a new and durable material researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more ...
- Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' material (MOF)
- Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals -- as well as semimetals
- Scientists scale terahertz peaks in nanotubes
- Scientists offer new insights on controlling nanoparticle stability
- Morphing material has mighty potential: Composite may find use in bioscaffolds, optics, drugs
Medicinal Chemistry
The prospect of turning coal into fluorescent particles may sound too good to be true but the possibility exists thanks to scientists at Rice University The Rice lab of chemist James Tour found simple methods ...
- Clinical waste may be valuable for monitoring treatment response in ovarian cancer
- Carbon monoxide may help shrink tumors, amplify effectiveness of chemotherapy
- Turning waste into power with bacteria and loofahs
- Sorting Good Germs From Bad, in the Bacterial World
- Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper, safer drug, perfume production
Physical Organic Chemistry
A theoretical three dimensional 3D form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research team The findings which may significantly advance carbon science are published online ...
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- Pioneering path to electrical conductivity in 'Tinker Toy' material (MOF)
- Polymers can behave like insulators, semiconductors and metals -- as well as semimetals
- Scientists scale terahertz peaks in nanotubes
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- GRAPHENE: Growing Giants
- Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
- Experiment is first to simulate warming of Arctic permafrost
- New Jersey Shore likely faces unprecedented flooding by mid-century
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- Electricity from waste heat with more efficient materials
- Researchers create nonlinear light-generating zero-index metamaterial
- How water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule
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- Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive
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- The promise of nanotechnology
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