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Bridges get a quick check-up with new imaging technique

Swiss engineers have developed a new imaging technique that lets them see the insides of massive concrete bridges. Much like a sonogram, this technique provides quick, easy-to-interpret images, so that the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

NASA sees new salt in an ancient sea

(Phys.org) -- The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene battery demonstrated to power an LED

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Hong Kong have reported, in ArXiv, their experiments to make a graphene battery that they say generates an electrical current by drawing on the ambient thermal energy in the sol ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

Road runoff spurring spotted salamander evolution

Spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds are adapting to their toxic environments, according to a Yale paper in Scientific Reports. This study provides the first documented evidence that a vertebrate has ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Chemists devise a way to create a five point knotted molecule

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have for a long time been interested in a type of molecule that is literally tied up into a knot. This is where atoms are bonded together to form strands, which are then twisted around ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

The interplay of dancing electrons

Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Chemists develop liquid-based hydrogen storage material

University of Oregon chemists have developed a boron-nitrogen-based liquid-phase storage material for hydrogen that works safely at room temperature and is both air- and moisture-stable -- an accomplishment ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Crystal erbium compound offers superior optical properties, can enhance energy, computer, lighting technologies

Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Electrochemistry controlled with a plasma electrode

Engineers at Case Western Reserve University have made an electrochemical cell that uses a plasma for an electrode, instead of solid pieces of metal.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor

Atmospheric chemists at the University of California, San Diego, report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Chemical imaging of individual salt particles advances aerosol research

Scientists recently combined experimental approaches and molecular dynamics modeling to gain new insights into the internal structure of sea salt particles and relate it to their fundamental chemical reactivity in the atmosphere. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toxic compounds in groundwater

Vinyl chloride is a cancer-causing compound formed from solvents in groundwater systems under anaerobic conditions. These solvents are used in many industrial applications around the world and often belong to the most encountered ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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Underground waters resist forced depollution

An experiment conducted at the EPFL Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory has demonstrated the role played by micro-organisms in the degradation – without oxygen – of a very common pollutant: vinyl ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Diplomat says minuscule fallout reaches Calif.

(AP) -- The first radioactive fallout from Japan's crippled nuclear plant reached Southern California early Friday, but the readings indicate levels far below a level that could endanger people, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Pig model of cystic fibrosis improves understanding of disease

It's been more than 20 years since scientists first discovered the gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), yet questions about how the mutated gene causes disease remain unanswered.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chloride

The chloride ion is formed when the element chlorine, a halogen, picks up one electron to form an anion (negatively-charged ion) Cl−. The salts of hydrochloric acid HCl contain chloride ions and can also be called chlorides. The chloride ion, and its salts such as sodium chloride, are very soluble in water. It is an essential electrolyte located in all body fluids responsible for maintaining acid/base balance, transmitting nerve impulses and regulating fluid in and out of cells.

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