In the 1960s, a French artist named Jean-Pierre Sudre began experimenting with an obscure 19th-century photographic process, creating dramatic black-and-white photographs with ethereal veiling effects. Sudre christened the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 30, 2019
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Findings of a new study solve a key mystery about the chemistry of how plants tell time so they can flower and metabolize nutrients.
Biotechnology
May 16, 2017
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A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand will open up the digitisation of chemistry, scientists say.
Materials Science
Oct 2, 2020
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Cancer cells are more dependent on a cellular garbage disposal unit—the proteasome—than healthy cells, and cancer therapies take advantage of this dependency. Scientists at EMBL and MPI determined the proteasome's 3D ...
Biochemistry
Aug 4, 2016
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A trio of researchers working at the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, has chemically synthesized a mirror-image of Pfu DNA polymerase. In their paper published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, ...
Storing renewable electricity in molecules can solve two problems at once: first of all environmentally harmful CO2 can be used as a feedstock, and secondly it can enhance the capacity to store renewable electricity in chemical ...
Materials Science
Apr 1, 2019
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Life (as we know it) is based on carbon. Despite its ubiquity, this important element still holds plenty of secrets, on earth and in the heavens above us. For example, astrophysicists like Columbia's Daniel Wolf Savin who ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 27, 2022
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On hearing that they had been awarded a Nobel Chemistry Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene-editing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier said they hoped it would inspire a new generation of women in science.
Other
Oct 7, 2020
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Leipzig. The formation of sulfur dioxide from the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and, thus, of cooling clouds over the oceans seems to be overvalued in current climate models. This concludes scientists from the Leibniz ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 4, 2016
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The standard approach to building a quantum computer with majoranas as building blocks is to convert them into qubits. However, a promising application of quantum computing—quantum chemistry—would require these qubits ...
General Physics
May 31, 2018
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