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New quantum dot technique combines best of optical and electron microscopy
Nano-thermometer enables first atomic-scale heat transfer measurements
Deep biosphere harbors active, growing communities of microorganisms
Cameras five times more sensitive to light? An ultrasensitive molybdenum-based image sensor developed
Filmmaking magic with polymers
Carbon dioxide absorption in Antarctic seas
Researchers sequence the genome of global deep ocean
Iron fertilization, process of putting iron into ocean to help capture carbon, could backfire
Moving Iron in Antarctica
Chalking up a marine blooming alga: Genome fills a gap in the tree of life
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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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Life underground: Microbes active far beneath seafloor
no picMicrobes are living more than 500 feet beneath the seafloor in 5 million year old sediment according to new findings by researchers at the University of Delaware and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI Genetic material ... - Read MoreExposure to air transforms gold alloys into catalytic nanostructures
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Wood not so green a biofuel? Logging may have greater impact on carbon emissions than previously thought
Brown tide has emerged off Long Island, NY in Moriches, Quantuck and Shinnecock Bay, but not in Great South Bay
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Chemical Physics
Quantum radar to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systemsA prototype quantum radar that has the potential to detect objects which are invisible to conventional systems has been developed by an international research team led by a quantum information scientist at the University of ...
Geochemistry
Freeze! Watching alloys change from liquid to solid could lead to better metalsIf you put a camera in the ice machine and watched water turn into ice the process would look simple But the mechanism behind liquids turning to solids is actually quite complex and understanding it ...
- Submarine data used to investigate turbulence beneath Arctic ice
- How carbonates behave in Earth's interior
- Global sea ice diminishing, despite Antarctic gains
- Bacterial armor holds clues for self-assembling nanostructures
- Fossils survive volcanic eruption to tell us about the origin of the Canary Islands
Acid-base Chemistry
Simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsionsMIT researchers have devised a new way to make complex liquid mixtures known as emulsions that could have many applications in drug delivery sensing cleaning up pollutants and performing chemical reactions Many drugs vaccines cosmetics ...
- 'Seeing' hydrogen atoms to unveil enzyme catalysis that may play key role in cancer drug development
- "Seeing" Hydrogen Atoms to Unveil Enzyme Catalysis
- Chemists identify role of soil in pollution control
- New material makes water and oil roll off
- Single-atom gold catalysts may offer path to low-cost production of fuel and chemicals
Environmental Chemistry
Methane oxidation fuelled by algal oxygen productionMethane emissions are strongly reduced in lakes with anoxic bottom waters But here contrary to what has previously been assumed methane removal is not due to archaea or anaerobic bacteria A new study on Lake ...
Nuclear Chemistry
Graphene Research: Electrons Moving along Defined Snake StatesPhysicists at the University of Basel have shown for the first time that electrons in graphene can be moved along a predefined path This movement occurs entirely without loss and could provide a basis for ...
- Forbidden atomic transitions: Controlling matter 1,000 times more precisely using high-resolution spectroscopy
- Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures
- Stretch and relax: Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium
- Simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms
- Getting a grip on exotic atomic nuclei
Physical Organic Chemistry
The simplest element: Turning hydrogen into 'graphene'New work from Carnegie's Ivan Naumov and Russell Hemley delves into the chemistry underlying some surprising recent observations about hydrogen and reveals remarkable parallels between hydrogen and graphene under extreme pressures Their work is the ...
Synthetic chemistry
Breakthrough in organic light emitting diodes technologyOrganic light emitting diodes OLEDs which are made from carbon containing materials have the potential to revolutionize future display technologies making low power displays so thin they'll wrap or fold around other structures for instance ...
- A rapid extension of nanographene sheets from readily available hydrocarbons
- Programmed synthesis towards multi-substituted benzene derivatives
- Chromium-centered cycloparaphenylene rings as new tools for making functionalized nanocarbons
- New technique helps probe performance of organic solar cell materials
- Fine motor skills for robotic hands
Chemistry Education
OMG Moment Affects GPAsReleased 24 Feb 2015 1 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom Wake Forest University more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Feb 25 2015 Professor Angela King had an OMG moment ...
- No Joke: Chemistry Thesis Transmuted Into Comic Book
- Lead negatively impacts cognitive functions of boys more than girls
- Esther Conwell, Pioneering Professor of Chemistry, Dead at 92
- Do cycle lanes increase safety of cyclists from overtaking vehicles?
- Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Should 'Spark Imagination of Would-Be Scientists Everywhere,' Says Cornell Chemist
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Novel pretreatment could cut biofuel costs by 30 percent or moreResearchers at the University of California Riverside have invented a novel pretreatment technology that could cut the cost of biofuels production by about 30 percent or more by dramatically reducing the amount of enzymes needed ...
- Solving a case of intercellular entrapment
- That smartphone is giving your thumbs superpowers
- Optogenetics: Identifying new targets for intervention
- Complementary light switchable proteins and superresolution reveal moving protein complexes in live cells at single molecule level
- Quantum mechanical calculations reveal the hidden states of enzyme active sites
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- Mystery of the reverse-wired eyeball solved
- Bringing clean energy a step closer
- The better to see you with: Prosthetic leg would keep an eye on path ahead
- Himalayan ice shows chemicals ban is working
- Climate-warmed leaves change lake ecosystems
- First direct observation of carbon dioxide's increasing greenhouse effect at Earth's surface
- Lake Tahoe research provides new insights on global change
- Lithium from the coal in China
- Superatomic Nickel core and unusual molecular reactivity
- In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- Combating bacteria via silver-dammar coating
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- Caging of molecules allows investigation of equilibrium thermodynamics
- Spin laser: Rapid data transfer thanks to quantum physics
- Physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
- Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures
- Simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
- Graphene shows potential as novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy
- Cherenkov Effect improves radiation therapy for patients with cancer
- New technology could make treatment of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper
- Bacteria in marine sponges harvest phosphorus for reef community
- Looking back into the past of oceans: Acidification trends, seasonal fluctuations
- Storks could become poisoned by pesticides during their migration to Africa
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