News tagged with organic molecule
A new day dawned fast: Recovery from marine mass extinction happened much faster than thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1979, Luis Alvarez and his collaborators stunned the world with their discovery that an asteroid impact 65 million years ago probably killed off the dinosaurs and much of the the world's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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New Nanochemistry Technique Encases Single Molecules in Microdroplets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have employed microfluidics -- the manipulation ...
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Regulatory role of key molecule discovered
Discovery by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers of an additional role for a key molecule in our bodies provides a further step in world-wide efforts to develop genetic regulation aimed at controlling ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicholas Turro of Columbia University, Bernhard Krautler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich
The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may prove tasty for computer chip designers, who have long had an appetite for molecule-sized ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Scrubbing sulfur: New process removes sulfur components, CO2 from power plant emissions (w/ Video)
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards ...
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Rampant helper syndrome: Methane-producing molecule can also repair DNA
The Archaea are single-celled organisms and a domain unto themselves, quite apart from the so called eukaryotes, being bacteria and higher organisms. Many species live under extreme conditions, and carry out unique biochemical ...
Jul 02, 2009 |
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How chemistry can reveal the secrets of ancient worlds
The day-to-day lives of prehistoric humans have been revealed following new research developed by chemists at the University of Bristol. The research, which combines archaeology with cutting-edge chemistry ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Proteins in gel
Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now ...
Jun 24, 2009 |
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New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors
Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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MicroRNAs grease the cell's circadian clockwork
Most of our cells possess an internal clock, a group of genes displaying a cyclic expression pattern that reaches a peak once a day. A large number of circadian genes are expressed by organs such as the liver, whose activity ...
May 31, 2009 |
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Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed an experiment that sheds new and fascinating light on how life on Earth might have begun.
May 13, 2009 |
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Hubble: a time machine that revolutionized astronomy
The Hubble space telescope, the object of NASA's fifth and last servicing mission next week, is a veritable time machine that has revolutionized humankind's vision and comprehension of the universe.
May 10, 2009 |
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Michigan Astronomer to Search in Space for Precursors of Life
Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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