Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints
Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people that left them behind.
Materials Science
Feb 19, 2020
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'Flammable ice' discovery offers up clue to life on other planets
Scientists studying so-called 'flammable ice' in the Sea of Japan have made a startling discovery—the existence of life within microscopic bubbles.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2020
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Scientists capture molecular maps of animal tissue with unprecedented detail
We've all heard, and seen, how a picture paints a thousand words. Now, in a scientific twist on that saying, researchers at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab), ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 24, 2020
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New X-ray method has 'profound implications' for the development of lifesaving drugs
Proteins that contain metal, known as metalloproteins, play important roles in biology, regulating various pathways in the body, which often become targets for lifesaving drugs. While the amount of metal in such proteins ...
Biochemistry
Jan 22, 2020
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On the hunt for primordial black holes
The theory that dark matter could be made of primordial black holes a fraction of a millimeter in size has been ruled out by a team of researchers led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe ...
Astronomy
Jan 10, 2020
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'Resurrection ecology' of 600-year-old water fleas used to understand pollution adaptation
One of the leading threats to lakes since the rise of agriculture are runoffs from fertilizer, in the form of high phosphorus levels. These can trigger devastating events like eutrophication, where deadly algal blooms thrive ...
Evolution
Jan 9, 2020
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Counting whales from space pitched as key to saving them
An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space.
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2020
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Complete filling of batches of nanopipettes
Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Analytical Chemistry an efficient method for filling a batch of nanopipettes with a pore opening below 10 nanometers. The method is based on the application of a temperature gradient ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 27, 2019
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Nanoscience breakthrough: Probing particles smaller than a billionth of a meter
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed a new methodology that allows researchers to assess the chemical composition and structure of metallic particles with a diameter of only 0.5 to 2 nm. ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 13, 2019
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Forensic chemist proposes sweat testing strip as breathalyzer replacement
Forensic chemist Jan Halámek once again has found an innovative use for human sweat—this time to keep drunk drivers off the road.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 12, 2019
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