News tagged with gold
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Mount Sinai pioneers new cardiac imaging device
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time developed a way to visualize coronary artery plaques vulnerable to rupture using multi-color computed tomography (CT), an innovation that will lead to ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Scientists developing cancer breath test
Scientists working on a breath test to detect cancer said they were now able to identify different types of the disease, in research published Wednesday.
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Faster DNA analysis at room temperature
DNA microarrays are one of the most powerful tools in molecular biology today. The devices, which can be used to probe biological samples and detect particular genes or genetic sequences, are employed in everything ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Safe and efficient de-orbit of space junk without making the problem worse
Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) announced that Dr. Kristin L. Gates will present a paper on de-orbiting space junk at the August 2 Artificial and Natural Space Debris session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 02, 2010 |
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An Alchemist's Dream: Superatoms Mimic Elements
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Will Castleman and his team have discovered clusters of atoms that mimic some of the properties of other elements. Called "superatoms," these clusters of atoms behave like a single "superatom" ...
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Deep in Colombian jungle, a first in eco gold
His worn hands have worked tirelessly since dawn, churning the soil, cleaning sand in a pan and finally revealing tiny flakes of "green gold", the world's first certified fair trade gold.
Jul 25, 2010 |
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Scientists provide an atomic view of the destruction caused by radiation in extreme environments
(PhysOrg.com) -- In extreme environments, some materials quickly recover from being hit by energetic ions, while other materials are permanently scarred, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National ...
Jul 16, 2010 |
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High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...
Jul 08, 2010 |
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New technique can sense movement of single molecules over hours
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can detect the movements of single molecules by using fluorescent tags or by pulling them in delicate force measurements, but only for a few minutes. A new technique by Rice University ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Researchers develop ultra-simple method for creating nanoscale gold coatings (w/ Video)
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new, ultra-simple method for making layers of gold that measure only billionths of a meter thick. The process, which requires no sophisticated ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Gold nanoparticles create visible-light catalysis in nanowires
(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory has created visible-light catalysis, using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, that may decompose organic molecules ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Engineers turn a drawback - the stickiness of gold nanoparticles - into an advantage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gold nanoparticles -- tiny spheres of gold just a few billionths of a meter in diameter -- have become useful tools in modern medicine. They've been incorporated into miniature drug-delivery ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Gold, and lead, bring illness and death in Nigeria
(AP) -- Mound after tiny mound of red clay earth dots the cemetery on the outskirts of this impoverished Nigerian village where grieving parents come to pray.
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Imaging technique enables studies on the dynamics of nanocatalysts at unprecedented spatial, temporal resolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny catalyst materials may take part in a rich variety of very fast physical and chemical processes which can now be revealed more precisely thanks to a new imaging mode for dynamic transmission ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Finnish scientists unveil secrets of a chiral gold nanocluster
Researchers at the Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience Center of the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) have resolved the structural, electronic and optical properties of a chiral gold nanocluster that remained a mystery ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 27, 2010 |
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