News tagged with ring closure

Bow down to the light: Light-triggered microscale robotic arm makes bending and stretching motions

(PhysOrg.com) -- As miniaturization progresses, microrobots and nanomachines have moved beyond the realm of pure speculation. This technology requires tiny components that can respond to stimulation by undergoing ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Cell movement patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whereas a cut knee often reduces children to tears, adults are more likely to be distressed by the fear of cancer. In both cases, that is wound healing and the growth and spread of tumours, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

X-rays reveal how soil bacteria carry out surprising chemistry

Researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used powerful X-rays to help decipher how certain natural antibiotics defy a longstanding set of chemical rules – a mechanism that ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For the dogs: Team performs open-heart canine surgeries

Plagued with a defective heart valve that caused fluid accumulation in his lungs, Leo was in need of serious medical help.

Biology / Other

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

Highly selective catalyst developed for ring-closing olefin metathesis

Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Deadly medication? Scientists shed light on the dark secret of Queen Hatshepsut's flacon

The corpus delicti is a plain flacon from among the possessions of Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who lived around 1450 B.C., which is on exhibit in the permanent collection of the Egyptian Museum of the University of ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fused indolines made by asymmetrical carbon-carbon coupling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many drugs are based on natural substances. Because it is usually difficult, if not impossible, to isolate these in sufficient quantities from plants or microorganisms, they must be synthesized ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider smashes another record

The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist said.

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 39

Riddle of 'God particle' could be solved by 2012: CERN (Update)

Physicists said on Tuesday they believed that by the end of 2012 they could determine whether a theorised particle called the Higgs boson, which has unleashed a gruelling decades-long hunt, exists or not.

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 33

Defective plastics repair themselves

Indestructible things are a figment of the imagination of advertising. Even plastic components that have to stand up to major mechanical loads can break. The reason for this are microcracks that may be found ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Choose a movie's plot -- while you watch it

Will Rona and Sol kiss and seal their fate as a couple forever, or will Sol answer the ringing phone and change the course of history? A new movie format developed by Tel Aviv University lets the viewer decide.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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