News tagged with chemical component

Making microscopic machines using metallic glass

Researchers in Ireland have developed a new technology using materials called bulk metallic glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic components. The components, with detailed microscopically patterned ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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'Magnetic tongue' ready to help produce tastier processed foods

The "electronic nose," which detects odors, has a companion among emerging futuristic "e-sensing" devices intended to replace abilities that once were strictly human-and-animal-only. It is a "magnetic tongue" ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Authenticating ancient artifacts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Piecing together the history of ancient ceramic objects can be difficult, especially when all that remains is a few small shards. However, clues about the authenticity and provenance of such ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists develop plan to end the use of environmentally harmful chemicals on commercial crops

(Edmonton) Two University of Alberta researchers have published a step by step plan to one-day end the use of environmentally harmful chemicals on commercial crops by developing plants that produce their own fertilizer.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technique sheds light on the mysterious process of cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a new technique in which models of primitive cells are constructed from the bottom up, scientists have demonstrated that the structure of a cell's membrane and cytoplasm may be as important ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Resolving water's electrical properties

An old confusion about the electrical properties of water's surface has ended, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. The conflict arose because two types of ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Single molecule electronics and 'chemical soldering'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Single molecule electronics is a division of nanotechnology utilizing single molecules as electronic components and its study has the ultimate goal of reducing the size of common electrical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

New 'nano-drug' hits brain-tumor target found in 2001

Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With further ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Hormonal birth control alters scent communication in primates

Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones, genes, scent chemicals and behavior.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mobile lab allows researchers to study air quality, health effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stable Thanks to Dynamics - DNA Component Resists UV Radiation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer simulations have, for the first time, allowed scientists to examine in detail the processes that help to ensure the stability of DNA when exposed to UV light. The findings, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0