Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have invented a technique that overcomes a long-standing problem in organic chemistry and should streamline the process of discovery and development for many new drugs. The ...
Materials Science
Nov 27, 2017
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As American families sit down for the traditional turkey dinner this Thanksgiving, some will be giving thanks for a wild bird that is truly free range. Meleagris gallopavo, the wild turkey, has steadily gained in popularity ...
Ecology
Nov 27, 2017
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In big box stores, supermarkets, and even smaller grocers, food manufacturers' representatives seem to lurk at the end of every aisle hawking their canape-size samples. But how effective are such strategies at attracting ...
Economics & Business
Nov 27, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Researchers have used a simple inkjet printer to print a "bio-ink" of cyanobacteria onto a conductive surface, creating a biophotovoltaic cell. Unlike conventional photovoltaic cells that operate only when exposed ...
Hundreds of the world's top websites routinely track a user's every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even before it's submitted or later abandoned, according to the results of a study from researchers ...
Security
Nov 27, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Southern Methodist University in Texas and the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazard Program in Virginia has taken a new approach to studying the increase of earthquakes in Texas. ...
A dark cloud when observed with optical telescopes, the Chamaeleon I region reveals itself as an active hub of star formation in this far-infrared image from ESA's Herschel space observatory. Only around 550 light-years away ...
Astronomy
Nov 27, 2017
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Could 2,000 years of belief be wrong? Are we in fact living on a disc rather than a globe? One believer from the Flat Earth Society is determined to find out. "Mad" Mike Hughes is all set to build his own rocket to see for ...
Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté in France has developed a metamaterial that twists either to the right or the left in response ...
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully turned tofu whey, a liquid that is generated from the production of tofu and is often discarded, into a tasty alcoholic beverage which they ...
Other
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