News tagged with decomposition process

Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes

Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems

Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Florida researchers said ...

Biology / Ecology

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

Separating signal from noise in living cells

A mathematician from the University of Bristol has teamed up with a biologist from the University of Edinburgh to address a major problem in molecular biology.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ecosystem effects of biodiversity loss could rival impacts of climate change, pollution

Loss of biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a new study from an international research team.

Biology / Ecology

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Simulated digestion: Nanomaterial made from lipids and silicon dioxide improves absorption of pharmaceuticals

(Phys.org) -- Some medicines have to be taken either before, after, or during a meal because food ingredients can affect its absorption or bioavailability. Australian researchers have now encapsulated drugs ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First-ever release of endangered burying beetles in Missouri

Beetle last seen in state in 1970s; Zoo has monitored for beetle since 2002. The Saint Louis Zoo's Center for American Burying Beetle Conservation; the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; the Missouri Department of Conservation; ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Writing graphene circuitry with ion 'pens'

The unique electrical properties of graphene have enticed researchers to envision a future of fast integrated circuits made with the one-carbon-atom-thick sheets, but many challenges remain on the path to commercialization. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New catalyst for safe, reversible hydrogen storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new catalyst that reversibly converts hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide to a liquid under very mild conditions. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Use a laser, save a tree

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laser un-printers that can remove toner from scrap paper so that it can be used again may be coming to an office near you in the future, results from a new Cambridge study show.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NASA's astrobiology research sparks 'GreenTech' revolution

NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Texas vulture study upends forensics

(AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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