News tagged with aromatic substance

Changing smell of plants announces fungus attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Designing a dye you can count on

Natural substances such as chlorophyll and the heme pigment of red blood cells contain colorful molecules known as porphyrins. They owe their exceptional visual characteristics to a ‘macrocyclic’ ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel plastics and textiles from waste with the use of microbes

New biotechnological and chemical methods will facilitate efficient production of chemicals, materials and fuels from renewable natural resources. The Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (CoE) in White Biotechnology – ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Toxic aldehydes detected in reheated oil

Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) have been the first to discover the presence of certain aldehydes in food, which are believed to be related to some neurodegenerative ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Wood-burning stoves - harmful or safe?

Wood-burning stoves are a popular source of heating in many countries. However in recent years there has been much debate about the potential negative health effects associated with wood smoke. A Norwegian researcher has ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Astronomers discover complex organic matter in the universe

In today's issue of the journal Nature, astronomers report that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are not the sole d ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (32) | comments 56 | with audio podcast

Deadly medication? Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's flacon

The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Detecting an unexpected delay at ultrafast speed

Molecules that suddenly transform into new structures when stimulated by photons or electrons play key roles in many chemical and biological processes. Recently, chemists have discovered that adding transition ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Fused indolines made by asymmetrical carbon-carbon coupling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drugs are based on natural substances. Because it is usually difficult, if not impossible, to isolate these in sufficient quantities from plants or microorganisms, they must be synthesized ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A diamond ring sparks a paradigm shift

The sweet smell of benzene gave birth to the term ‘aromatic’ molecules, but it is the chemical bonds within these compounds that have fascinated researchers for almost 200 years. Encasing alternating ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find no evidence of petroleum residues in 'Good Morning America' samples

(PhysOrg.com) -- More science needed to determine oil impact in deeper waters.

Space & Earth / Environment

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