News tagged with chemical computer

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

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists sound acid alarm for plankton

The microscopic organisms on which almost all life in the oceans depends could be even more vulnerable to increasingly acidic waters than scientists realised, according to a new study.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New research may improve the efficiency of the biofuel production cycle

(Phys.org) -- Using new experimental methods and computational analysis, a team of scientists from the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Livermore's Michael Thelen, discovered how certain bacteria ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Cebit 2012: The wireless bicycle brake, a prototype on an exciting mission

A German computer scientist has developed a reliable wireless bicycle brake.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8

To make better fuel cells, study the defects

Engineers trying to improve fuel-cell catalysts may be looking in the wrong place, according to new research at Cornell.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Video games lead to new paths to treat cancer, other diseases

The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WSU chemist applies Google software to webs of the molecular world

The technology that Google uses to analyze trillions of Web pages is being brought to bear on the way molecules are shaped and organized.

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New power source discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and RMIT University have made a breakthrough in energy storage and power generation.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (57) | comments 59 | with audio podcast

Learning about material integrity from statistical data

Whether it protects space satellites or sequesters nuclear waste, scientists want to understand tiny features that could significantly alter how a material behaves. Locating microscopic defects can be done ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The great gas hydrate escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A baby crystal is born

Lead sulfide (PbS) forms when an equal number of lead and sulfur atoms exchange electrons and bond together in cubic crystals. Now scientists have determined that a structure comprising 32 lead-sulfur pairs is the smallest ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Polymer science team designs new nanotech technique for lower-cost materials repair

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the super-small world of nanostructures, a team of polymer scientists and engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered how to make nano-scale repairs to a damaged ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First elucidation of cause of long-term stability deterioration in solid oxide fuel cells

NIMS and the University of Queensland Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the Dalian Polytechnic University, and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, clarified for the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In nitrogenase - enzyme critical for life, X-ray emission cracks mystery atom

Like a shadowy character just hidden from view, a mystery atom in the middle of a complex enzyme called nitrogenase had long hindered scientists' ability to study the enzyme fully.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Weird world of water gets a little weirder with a new anomaly

Strange, stranger, strangest! To the weird nature of one of the simplest chemical compounds -- the stuff so familiar that even non-scientists know its chemical formula -- add another odd twist. Scientists ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 8 | with audio podcast