News tagged with mineral salts

E. coli metabolism reversed for speedy production of fuels, chemicals

In a biotechnological tour de force, Rice University engineering researchers this week unveiled a new method for rapidly converting simple glucose into biofuels and petrochemical substitutes. In a paper published ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Waxy plant substance key for absorption of water, nutrients

(PhysOrg.com) -- While proving a long-held theory that suberin blocks water and nutrient absorption in plants, a Purdue University scientist learned more about manipulating the substance to better feed plants.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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A crowning success for crayfish

Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and the Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva in ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clean drinking water for everyone

Nearly 80 percent of disease in developing countries is linked to bad water and sanitation. Now a scientist at Michigan Technological University has developed a simple, cheap way to make water safe to drink, even if it’s ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Environmentally friendly cleaning and washing

More and more everyday products are based on renewable resources, with household cleaners now containing active cleaning substances made from plant oils and sugar. These fat and dirt removers are especially ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Probing a link from Sahara dust to climate change

Qilong Min, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and Professor with the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) at the University at Albany is developing innovative ways to measure how dust in the Sahara Desert ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cactus may give farmers a cure for poisoned crop land

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California's San Joaquin Valley.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First complete 3D visualization of vitamin D receptor

For the first time, a team from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France, has obtained a high-resolution, full 3D image of a small but vital molecule locked ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New tool for cleaning up soils and waterways: Prickly pear

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has discovered what may be an effective tool for cleaning up soils and waterways in parts of California's San Joaquin Valley: a drought-tolerant cactus.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A salt-free primordial soup?

Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new kind of metal in the deep Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- The crushing pressures and intense temperatures in Earth's deep interior squeeze atoms and electrons so closely together that they interact very differently. With depth materials change. New ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Bay wetlands may face losing battle against sea level rise

(PhysOrg.com) -- San Francisco Bay's tidal marshes may face a grave threat from sea level rise in the next century, according to a new study published by a group of scientists, including Professor of Biology ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 5


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