News tagged with bicarbonate

Research group develops more efficient artificial enzyme

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group based out of the University of Michigan, and led by Vincent Pecoraro has successfully created a computer designed artificial enzyme that can serve as a catalyst for converting ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Speeding up Mother Nature's very own CO2 mitigation process

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using seawater and calcium to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) in a natural gas power plant's flue stream, and then pumping the resulting calcium bicarbonate in the sea, could be beneficial to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Baking soda: For cooking, cleaning, and kidney health?

A daily dose of sodium bicarbonate -- baking soda, already used for baking, cleaning, acid indigestion, sunburn, and more -- slows the decline of kidney function in some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Team makes breakthrough demonstration of pH-regulating protein

Researchers have identified the protein mechanism that senses bicarbonate fluctuations and adjusts blood pH levels.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bicarbonate adds fizz to players' tennis performance

Dietary supplementation with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) on the morning of a tennis match allows athletes to maintain their edge. A randomized, controlled trial reported in BioMed Central's open access Journal of th ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Baking powder for environmentally friendly hydrogen storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is under consideration as a promising energy carrier for a future sustainable energy economy. However, practicable solutions for the easy and safe storage of hydrogen are still being ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Shellfish face an uncertain future in a high CO2 world

Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 2