(Phys.org)—Platinum works well as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, but it has at least two drawbacks: It is expensive, and it degrades over time. Brown chemists have engineered a cheaper and more durable catalyst using ...
Materials Science
Oct 17, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Atmospheric chemists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found that when it comes to secondary organic material in the atmosphere, there are two distinct breeds: liquids and ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2012
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Japan's Nobel prize-winning Shinya Yamanaka will likely get up to 30 billion yen ($383 million) for his stem cell research over the next decade, an official said Wednesday.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2012
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(Phys.org)—New models are being developed to predict how changing land use in the tropics could affect future climate, air quality and crop production.
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A Florida State University chemist's work could lead to big improvements in our ability to detect and eliminate specific toxic substances in our environment.
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2012
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Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. Irrespective of what happens in the sea: whether the sun shines, algae bloom ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Back in the early thirties, the story goes, a couple of unknown chemists set about betting one another as to whether they could remove the water from a jelly that had been gelled with pectin, without causing ...
(Phys.org)—In collaboration with colleagues at Oxford, a team of researchers at Umeå University in Sweden has now further elaborated its discovery of a way to detect Parkinson's disease at an early stage, and applications ...
Biochemistry
Sep 26, 2012
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(Phys.org)—It would seem that figuring out how many molecules of water are needed to form the smallest, or most basic ice crystal would have been discovered long ago, but that is not the case, because to measure both the ...
(Phys.org)—To help winemakers determine the best caps for their wine bottles, researchers at the University of California, Davis, are studying the performance—specifically the variability—within different types of closures.
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Sep 21, 2012
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