News tagged with bond
Muscular protein bond -- strongest yet found in nature
A research collaboration between Munich-based biophysicists and a structural biologist in Hamburg (Germany) is helping to explain why our muscles, and those of other animals, don't simply fall apart under stress. Their findings ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Professor sheds light on DNA mechanisms
By manipulating individual atoms in DNA and forming unique molecules, a Georgia State University researcher hopes to open new avenues in research towards better understanding the mechanisms of DNA replication and transcription, ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Why Does Water Expand When it Cools? A New Explanation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of us, when we take our first science classes, learn that when things cool down, they shrink. (When they heat up, we learn, they usually expand.) However, water seems to be the exception ...
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions
One of nature's most gripping feats of survival is now better understood. For the first time, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed the chemical changes in individual ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Atomic force microscope research could lead to better health care
Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, a Kansas State University professor expects to find applications to improve human health.
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Tiny capsules can deliver drugs to targeted cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Scientists Observe Liquid Water Below Freezing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Below 0 °C, water turns to ice. But beyond that, or below about -75 °C, the ice may turn back into liquid water. While scientists have previously predicted this phase transition with computer ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Potential new drugs: 970 million and still counting
Like astronomers counting stars in the familiar universe of outer space, chemists in Switzerland are reporting the latest results of a survey of chemical space -- the so-called chemical universe where tomorrow’s ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Unlike rubber bands, molecular bonds may not break faster when pulled
From balloons to rubber bands, things always break faster when stretched. Or do they? University of Illinois scientists studying chemical bonds now have shown this isn't always the case, and their results may have profound ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Researchers describe 'implausible' chemistry that produces herbicidal compound
A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Scientists Make First Observation of Unique Rydberg Molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Enrico Fermi investigated the Rydberg atom in the '30s, he never imagined that the giant atoms could form molecules. Later, in the '70s and '80s, theoretical physicist Chris Greene predicted ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Discovery of an Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-Splitting Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has discovered, serendipitously, that a residue of a process used to build arrays of titania ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Sexual harassment from males prevents female bonding, says study
(PhysOrg.com) -- The extent to which sexual harassment from males can damage relationships between females is revealed in a new study. Led by the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Breaking the ties that bind: New hope for biomass fuels
(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have discovered a potential chink in the armor of fibers that make the cell walls of certain inedible plant materials so tough. The insight ultimately ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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