News tagged with nuclear structure

Genetic study unravels ancient links between African and European populations

Large numbers of people moved between Africa and Europe during recent and well-documented time periods such as the Roman Empire, the Arab conquest, and the slave trade, and genetic evidence of these migrations lives on in ...

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New technique enables study of 'challenging' proteins

Researchers from Hull, Bristol and Frankfurt have shown that a new technique for identifying molecular structure can be used effectively on small samples of biological proteins, particularly proteins that are targeted for ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists reach the heights with gecko-inspired tank robot (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a tank-like robot that has the ability to scale smooth walls, opening up a series of applications ranging from inspecting pipes, buildings, aircraft and nuclear ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures, nuclear plant design

Ten years after 9/11, researchers at Purdue University are continuing work that could lead to safer steel structures such as buildings and bridges and also an emerging type of nuclear power plant design.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Seeing the world of nanotechnology from a single-molecule perspective

Observing the structure of collapsing unstable atomic nuclei using electrons is an experimental goal that has not been achieved anywhere in the world. Masanori Wakasugi, director of the Instrumentation Development ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A better way to see molecular structures

In laboratories at MIT and around the world, scientists are deciphering the molecular structures of proteins involved in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes, and many other disorders. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

3D proteins -- Getting the big picture

How do you get to know a protein? How about from the inside out? If you ask chemistry professor James Hinton, "It's really important that students be able to touch, feel, see ... embrace--if you like, these ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Residual dipolar couplings unveil structure of small molecules

German chemists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology introduced a new method for identifying chemical compounds. The approach they used is an improvement on nuclear magnetic resonance ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research divines structure for class of proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most proteins are shapely, but about one-third of them lack a definitive form, at least that scientists can readily observe. These intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) perform a host of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nature study shows how molecules escape from the nucleus

By constructing a microscope apparatus that achieves resolution never before possible in living cells, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have illuminated the molecular ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass

Iowa State University researchers have found a way to produce high-value chemicals such as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol from biomass rather than petroleum sources.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery could challenge established theory of the nucleus

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing data from experiments performed earlier this decade at the Oak Ridge Electron Linear Accelerator (ORELA), physicists have made observations that seem to conflict with the widely accepted theory ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (58) | comments 65 | with audio podcast report

Single-particle resonances in a deformed relativistic potential

A variety of structural phenomena in exotic short-lived nuclei far from stability, especially in systems close to the particle drip lines, challenge model descriptions based on the self-consistent mean-field approximation. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New material traps radioactive ions using 'Venus flytrap' method

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like a Venus flytrap, a newly discovered chemical material is a picky eater -- it won't snap its jaws shut for just anything. Instead of flies, however, its favorite food is radioactive nuclear ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First NMR Signal of a Copper Site in Azurin Obtained

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metalloproteins, such as the copper-containing azurin, play a major role in catalyzing electron transfer in cellular reactions. Understanding how their structure relates to function can give ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0