A groundbreaking report recently released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health affirms known and suspected impacts to human health and the environment caused by light emitting diodes ...
Environment
Jun 22, 2016
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It was during a trip to Indianapolis that Professor Simon Lewis, a forensic and analytical chemist, was approached by Gregory Smith from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) with an idea.
Analytical Chemistry
May 30, 2016
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Microrobots and nanomachines are no longer far-off dreams. However, one of the biggest challenges that remains is to transmit the motion of individual molecules or molecular clusters into structured macroscopic motion that ...
Materials Science
May 20, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the University of Western Australia, Crawley has discovered new details about crocodile vision that helps explain how it is they are so adept at waiting just under the water surface ...
A team of researchers led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History has found that catsharks are not only able to see the bright green biofluorescence they produce, but that they increase contrast of their ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2016
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Optogenetics now enables the development of new methods that can be used like light switches to turn on and off specific processes in cells. Optogenetic methods are based on the isolation and modification of light-sensitive ...
Biochemistry
Apr 25, 2016
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Throughout our cells, materials are continuously transported via tiny packets called vesicles. This process is called intracellular trafficking and it is crucial for the normal functioning of cells. Controlling intracellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 15, 2016
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A team of astronomers including Harvard's Robert Kirshner and Peter Challis has detected a flash of light from the companion to an exploding star. This is the first time astronomers have witnessed the impact of an exploding ...
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2016
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Despite seeming passive, plants wage wars with each other to outgrow and absorb sunlight. If a plant is shaded by another, it becomes cut off from essential sunlight it needs to survive.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 24, 2015
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Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw have developed a simple chemical computer made of microdroplets capable of searching databases. Computer simulations, carried ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 15, 2015
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