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Quantum of sonics: Bonded, not stirred
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a new way to join materials together using ultrasound Ultrasound sound so high it cannot be heard is normally used to smash particles apart in water In a recent ... - Read MorePotential well water contaminants highest near natural gas drilling
Novel nanometer scaffolds regulate the biological behaviors of neural stem cells
Polymer ribbons for better healing
New way to create 'gradients' for understanding molecular interactions
Ancient technology for metal coatings 2,000 years ago can't be matched even today
Direct nitrogen fixation for low cost energy conversion
Watching catalysts at work at the atomic scale
New nuclear fuel-rod cladding could lead to safer power plants
In the aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake its emergency generators then failed because they were inundated ... - Read MoreNew techniques use lasers, LEDs, and optics to 'see' under the skin
Impressive examples of new non invasive optical techniques using lasers light emitting diodes LEDs and spectroscopic methods to probe and render images from beneath the surface of the skin are featured in a newly completed ... - 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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Researchers get better metrics on laser potential of key material
no picResearchers from North Carolina State University have developed more accurate measurements of how efficiently a polymer called MEH PPV amplifies light which should advance efforts to develop a new generation of lasers and photonic devices ... - Read MoreResearchers put squeeze on cells to deliver
Watching molecule movements in live cells
Nano scientists reach holy grail in label-free cancer marker detection: Single molecules
Off-grid sterilization with 'solar steam'
Chemistry Education
Ecology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream ChemistryReleased 4 17 2014 10 00 PM EDTEmbargo expired 4 21 2014 3 00 PM EDTSource Newsroom Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University more news from this source Contact Information Available for logged ...
Medicinal Chemistry
Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatmentA new computer program could help doctors predict which patients might suffer potentially fatal side effects from a key stroke treatment The program which assesses brain scans using pattern recognition software similar to that used ...
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Halving Hydrogen
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- Dartmouth Cancer Researcher on Genetic-Based Testing and Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Pocket diagnosis: App turns any smartphone into a portable medical diagnostic device
Agrochemistry
True value of cover crops to farmers, environmentPlanting cover crops in rotation between cash crops widely agreed to be ecologically beneficial is even more valuable than previously thought according to a team of agronomists entomologists agroecologists horticulturists and biogeochemists from Penn State's ...
- A gluttonous plant reveals how its cellular power plant devours foreign DNA
- Risk assessment for pesticides in EU unsuitable for use in field
- How scavenging fungi became a plant's best friend
- Lignin-feasting microbe holds promise for biofuels
- Defending food crops: Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agriculture
Physical Organic Chemistry
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have combined ultrafast time resolved experimental measurements with theory to reveal how an explosive responds to a high impact shock The work involved advances in both ultrafast experimental shock wave ...
Chemical Kinetics
An improved, cost-effective catalyst for water-splitting devicesSolar energy appears to be the only form of renewable that can be exploited at level that matches the world's growing needs However it is equally necessary to find efficient ways to store solar energy ...
Synthetic chemistry
Forever clean? Metal–organic 'micromushrooms' repel allA clever chemical transformation yields surface bound microstructures that efficiently drive away oil and water based contaminants Natural surfaces that repel water such as lotus leaves or butterfly wings often have a rough microscale texture ...
- Planting cotton early may mean less stink bug damage
- Big step for next-generation fuel cells and electrolyzers
- An environmentally friendly chemical reaction that does not waste any atoms
- New discoveries show biological formation of oxygen in soils
- Carbon dioxide tamed: Making this ubiquitous gas industrially useful
Spectroscopy
Vacuum ultraviolet lamp of the future createdA team of researchers in Japan has developed a solid state lamp that emits high energy ultraviolet UV light at the shortest wavelengths ever recorded for such a device from 140 to 220 nanometers This ...
- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Switching an antibiotic on and off with light
- Thermal vision: Graphene light detector first to span infrared spectrum
- Tweaking MRI to track creatine may spot heart problems earlier, study suggests
- Understanding secondary light emission by plasmonic nanostructures may improve medical imaging
Chemical Engineering
Stretchable antenna for wearable health monitoringResearchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies such as health monitoring devices Many researchers including our lab have developed prototype sensors for wearable ...
- Effective thermal camouflage and invisibility device for soldiers created
- Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors
- Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure
- Supercomputers join search for 'cheapium': Brute force computing used to find new materials
- New materials with potential biomedical applications
Acid-base Chemistry
Rewrite the textbooks on water's surface tension: Air-water interface is negatively charged by the adsorption of hydroxide ionsResearchers from the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney are confident their new reaserach results will make significant differences to the calculations of surface tension of water used by the next generation of atmospheric ...
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- New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect
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- Vacuum ultraviolet lamp of the future created
- Neuroimaging Technique: Live from inside the cell in real-time
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- Mapping the road to quantum gravity
- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Mantis shrimp stronger than airplanes: Composite material inspired by shrimp stronger than standard used in airplane frames
- Checking up on crude oil in the ground: Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'
- Steering chemical reactions with laser pulses
- Airport security-style technology could help doctors decide on stroke treatment
- Following a protein's travel inside cells is key to improving patient monitoring, drug development
- Gold nanoparticles help target, quantify breast cancer segments in a living cell
- Halving hydrogen: First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better fuel cells
- Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery
- Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves
- Following a Protein's Travel Inside Cells Is a Key to Improving Patient Monitoring and Drug Development
- Halving Hydrogen
- Ecology Team Improves Understanding of Valley-Wide Stream Chemistry
- Refrigerant in car air conditioners: Refreshingly cool, potentially toxic?
- Toward a faster, more accurate way to diagnose stroke
- Recycling astronaut urine for energy and drinking water
- Forever clean? Metal–organic 'micromushrooms' repel all
- Thermoelectric generator on glass fabric for wearable electronic devices
- New self-healing plastics developed
- Virus structure inspires novel understanding of onion-like carbon nanoparticles
- Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
- Bioanalysis: Microbeads are easily fixed
- Fruit flies, fighter jets use similar nimble tactics when under attack
- A modern twist on Young's slits
- Sneak a peek through the mist to technology of the future
- Enzyme 'Wrench' Could Be Key to Stronger, More Effective Antibiotics
- Most Hospital Pregnancy Tests Found to Be Unreliable After First Few Weeks of Pregnancy
- A New Approach to Huntington's Disease?
- Bamboo-Loving Giant Pandas Also Have a Sweet Tooth
- Engineers design 'living materials': Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light
- Shifting evolution into reverse promises cheaper, greener way to make new drugs
- Shifting Evolution Into Reverse Promises Cheaper, Greener Way to Make New Drugs
- Researcher: Study on Element Could Change Ballgame on Radioactive Waste
- Forests crucial to green growth
- Seal teeth offer glimpse into the environmental past of Russia's Lake Baikal
- Permafrost thaw exacerbates climate change
- Deep ocean current may slow due to climate change
- Making synthetic diamond crystals in plasma reactor
- Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
- Emerging carbon trading markets offer lessons
- It looks like rubber but isn't: What goes on in a concentrated solution of circular polymers?
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