News tagged with classical chemistry

New driving force for chemical reactions discovered

New research just published in the journal Science by a team of chemists at the University of Georgia and colleagues in Germany shows for the first time that a mechanism called tunneling control may drive chemical reacti ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Peptides-on-demand: Researcher's radical new green chemistry makes the impossible possible

(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill University chemistry professor Chao-Jun (C.J.) Li is known as one of the world leading pioneers in green chemistry, an entirely new approach to the science which eschews the use of ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Zooming in on bacterial weapons in 3-D

The plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophisticated injection apparatus. Through needle-like ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Friendly Fungi: Elucidating the fungal biosynthesis of stipitatic acid

(Phys.org) -- In a tale worthy of Sherlock Holmes, scientists in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK have solved a biochemical mystery that had previously proven elusive for 70 years: ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Archaeology expands beyond traditional scope into other sciences

The popular perception of archaeology is a team of dusty individuals in wide-brimmed hats unearthing treasures from a pharaoh's tomb or an ancient collection of Native American artifacts.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinum nanocrystal growth in liquids

They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First description of a triple DNA helix in a vacuum

A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Hollywood warms to China's new openness

(AP) -- There's a new breach in China's great cultural wall and Hollywood is cautiously moving in.

Technology / Business

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Water, water everywhere – but is it essential to life?

Proteins are large organic molecules that are vital to every living thing, allowing us to convert food into energy, supply oxygen to our blood and muscles, and drive our immune systems. Since proteins evolved in a water-rich ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Space weather forecast: Sunspotty, with an increasing chance of solar storms

(Phys.org) -- The past few months have seen a spate of solar flares – bringing spectacular views of the northern lights as far south as Seattle – along with media speculation that the electrical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Protein 'jailbreak' helps breast cancer cells live

If the fight against breast cancer were a criminal investigation, then the proteins survivin, HDAC6, CBP, and CRM1 would be among the shadier figures. In that vein, a study to be published in the March 30 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protecting the climate by reducing fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have been used in recent years in increasing quantities as substitutes for CFCs, are also climatically very active and many are also extremely long-lived. In the renowned journal Science an int ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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