Swirl, sniff, sip, and swallow: Discrimination of different wines has always been a matter of tongue and taste. Is objective and reliable discrimination of the thousands of wine varieties possible by means of a simple chemical ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 17, 2016
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The researchers examined data from research and monitoring reports from the years 2000-2012, to see what chemicals have been analysed in Baltic Sea fish.
Environment
May 25, 2016
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Chemists at the Complutense University of Madrid have developed a method that allows brewers to measure the freshness of beer using a polymer sensor that changes colour upon detecting furfural, a compound that gives aged ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 19, 2016
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Big data offers us a window on the world. But large and easily available datasets may not show us the world we live in. For instance, epidemiological models of the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa using big data consistently ...
Computer Sciences
May 17, 2016
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Purdue researchers have developed a prototype system that could allow law enforcement and public safety agencies to tap into thousands of cameras located in numerous venues including parking garages, college campuses, national ...
Engineering
May 11, 2016
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The worst of the recent Ebola epidemic is over, but the threat of future outbreaks lingers. Monitoring the virus requires laboratories with trained personnel, which limits how rapidly tests can be done. Now scientists report ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 27, 2016
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The University of Alberta's Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology (LKSIOV) and the Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP) are pleased to announce their partnership to support advanced research using high-performance ...
Hardware
Apr 6, 2016
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Food poisoning is a stomach-churning, miserable condition that sends thousands of Americans to hospital emergency rooms every year. Now scientists report in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry a simple, paper-based test that ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 6, 2016
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The conflict between science and religion may have its origins in the structure of our brains, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Babson College have found.
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2016
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As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data – big data – have become available for not only legitimate uses but also abuses.
Security
Mar 23, 2016
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