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Mitigating reptile road mortality
Ecopassages may be less effective reptile road mortality mitigation tools when fences fail to keep reptiles from accessing the road according to a study published March 25 2015 in the open access journal PLOS ONE ... - Read MoreThousands of atoms entangled with a single photon
Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3 000 atoms using only a single photon The results published today in the journal Nature represent the ... - Read MorePress Conference Schedule of the 249th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, March 22-26, 2015
it can potentially lower blood pressure and cholesterol and reduce stroke risk But just as connoisseurs thought it couldn’t get any better there’s this tasty new tidbit Researchers have found a way to make the ... - Read MoreAlgae From Clogged Waterways Could Serve as Biofuels and Fertilizer
which is an advantage Large scale centralized “algal turf scrubber” operations in Florida and elsewhere are getting underway and are growing natural communities of periphytic or attached algae for biofuel production Miller is building on ... - Read MoreFood Additive Could Serve as a Safer, More Environmentally Friendly Antifreeze
the syrupy liquid is a common food additive used to absorb excessive moisture and stabilize mixtures For example it is in some foods that contain artificial sweeteners as well as in some pastry icings It ... - Read MoreSoils retain, contain radioactivity in Fukushima
Radiation suddenly contaminates the land your family has farmed and lived on for generations Can soil play a role in protecting crops and human health Research in Fukushima Japan may lend an answer On March ... - Read MoreEngineers develop new yeast strain to enhance biofuel and biochemical production
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new mutant yeast strain that could lead to ... - Read MoreMagnets can control heat and sound: Experiment reveals new mysterious properties of sound waves
Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field In the March 23 issue of the journal Nature Materials they describe how a magnetic field roughly the size ... - Read MoreSqueeze to remove heat: Elastocaloric materials enable more efficient, 'green' cooling
Move over vapor compression cooling technology Emerging elastocaloric refrigeration is potentially much more efficient and unlike vapor compression relies on environmentally friendly refrigerants In elastocaloric materials a change in mechanical stress can create a change ... - Read MoreBuilding shape inspires new material discovery
Physicists inspired by the radical shape of a Canberra building have created a new type of material which enables scientists to put a perfect bend in light The creation of a so called topological insulator ... - 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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Scientists build a nanolaser using a single atomic sheet
no picUniversity of Washington scientists have built a new nanometer sized laser using the thinnest semiconductor available today that is energy efficient easy to build and compatible with existing electronics Lasers play essential roles in countless ... - Read MoreGot (fresh) milk? Preserving milk using energy efficient pulsed electric field processing
no picMilk is a key element for household food security and provides a stable income to farmers including women who are usually in charge of taking care of the milk producing animals in the low income ... - Read MoreNew technique paints tissue samples with light
no picOne infrared scan can give pathologists a window into the structures and molecules inside tissues and cells enabling fast and broad diagnostic assessments thanks to an imaging technique developed by University of Illinois researchers and ... - Read MoreMethod to simplify pictures makes chemistry calculations a snap
no picDate March 23 2015 Source American Chemical Society Summary A method smartphones use to simplify images when storage space is limited could help answer tough chemistry problems Researchers now apply this technique called compressed or ... - Read MoreNew membranes deliver clean water more efficiently
no picResearchers from the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne in conjunction with CSIRO have developed new membranes or micro filters that will result in clean water in a much more energy efficient ... - Read More- «
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Chemical Industry
Sponge-like material to more efficiently store natural gasAlthough compressed natural gas represents a cleaner and more efficient fuel for vehicles its volatile nature requires a reinforced heavy tank that stores the gas at high pressure and therefore limits vehicle design Researchers at ...
- High-precision radar for the steel industry
- 'Chemistry of Natural Resources' Focus of Plenaries at American Chemical Society Meeting
- Big Box Stores Could Ditch the Grid, Use Natural Gas Fuel Cells Instead
- Methane leaks from three large US natural gas fields in line with federal estimates
- Combination of imaging methods improves diagnostics
Sonochemistry
Flight and nuclear safety boosted by sound researchA system for using sound waves to spot potentially dangerous cracks in pipes aircraft engines and nuclear power plants has been developed by a University of Strathclyde academic A study found that transmitting different types ...
- Ultrasound cuts costs in producing aluminium alloys
- Bottling up sound waves: Acoustic bottle beams hold promise for imaging, cloaking, levitation and more
- New ultrasound device may add in detecting risk for heart attack, stroke
- Unlocking the brain's secrets using sound
- Fantastic phonons: Blocking sound, channeling heat with 'unprecedented precision'
Supramolecular Chemistry
Tying Molecular KnotsReleased 18 Feb 2016 2 05 PM ESTEmbargo expired 18 Feb 2016 5 00 PM ESTSource Newsroom National Institute of Chemistry Add to Favorites Contact Information Available for logged in reporters only Citations Nature Communications ...
- Smartphone face recognition 'improved' by copying the brain
- New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
- Mysteries of 'molecular machines' revealed: Phenix software uses X-ray diffraction spots to produce 3-D image
- A molecular thread: Flexible metal–organic frameworks with a range of pore sizes are made by threading through molecular ligands
- Hollow-fiber membranes could cut separation costs, energy use
Photochemistry
Widest possible photosynthesis, absorbing any color of sunlight, from oranges through near-infraredIn 2005 scientists studying tiny sac like creatures called sea squirts found bacteria containing two types of chlorophyll a and b in cavities inside the squirts' tissues These two pigments were soaking up most of ...
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
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Food Waste Could Store Solar and Wind Energyerythritol and xylitol both naturally occurring compounds in foods Their findings showed that with one exception heat transfer within a mixture decreased as the nanotube diameter decreased They also found that in general higher density ...
Immunochemistry
New technique efficiently turns antibodies into highly tuned 'nanobodies'Antibodies in charge of recognizing and homing in on molecular targets are among the most useful tools in biology and medicine Nanobodies antibodies' tiny cousins can do the same tasks for example marking molecules for ...
Separation Processes
Discovery Changes How Scientists Examine Rarest Elements of Periodic Tableinto learning more about these elements ” Getting a piece of californium is no easy task though After years of negotiating with the U S Department of Energy Albrecht Schmitt obtained 5 milligrams of californium ...
- Crude oil production: Asphaltene analysis takes a giant step
- Deep within spinach leaves, vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis
- Broadening the scope for synthesizing optically active compounds
- Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
- Game changer for synthesizing new materials: Method synthesizes thousands of new compounds with ultra low thermal conductivity
Theoretical Chemistry
Large Protein Nanocages Could Improve Drug Design and DeliverySep 17 2016 Using novel computational and biochemical approaches scientists have accurately designed and built from scratch 10 large protein icosahedra polyhedra with 20 faces similar to viral capsids that carry viral DNA The designed ...
- Meet Bethany Jochim: Physics Doctoral Student Studies Laser-Molecule Interactions
- Graphene decharging and molecular shielding
- Scientists Take Key Step Toward Custom-Made Nanoscale Chemical Factories
- New insights into ionic liquids
- How to maximize the superconducting critical temperature in a molecular superconductor
