Utrecht scientists have succeeded in measuring the mass of individual molecules. By modifying an existing mass spectrometer and developing special software, the researchers succeeded in making ultra-sensitive measurements. ...
General Physics
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Cigarette smoking, forest fires and woodburning can release a chemical that may be at least partly responsible for human health problems related to smoke exposure, according to a new study by NOAA researchers and their colleagues.
Environment
May 16, 2011
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Like the best movers in town, nanoDESI quickly transports delicate chemicals and proteins to their destination in one piece. Created at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, nanoDESI -- or Nanospray Desorption Electrospray ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 12, 2010
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Fossil-hunting can be grueling, but it's usually not gross. Paleontologists typically work with things that have been dead for millions of years, mineralized into rock and no longer smelly. At the end of a day in the field, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forensic science student Sonica Devi has found minute traces of cocaine at a number of public phone boxes in the city of Derby, UK - thanks to a new development in forensic analysis.
Analytical Chemistry
May 5, 2010
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Insights and technology gleaned from creating a carbon-measuring instrument for Earth climate studies is being leveraged to build another that would remotely profile, for the first time, water vapor up to nine miles above ...
Space Exploration
Aug 6, 2020
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Typical research on blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, often focuses on pampered conditions that result in a fast, high yield, but such conditions bear little resemblance to what these bacteria face in nature. Scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2011
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From books to floppy disks to magnetic memory, technologies to store information continue to improve. Yet threats as simple as water and as complex as cyberattacks can still corrupt our records.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 7, 2019
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Instruments aboard future space missions are capable of detecting amino acids, fatty acids and peptides, and can even identify ongoing biological processes on ocean moons in our solar system. These are the exciting conclusions ...
Astrobiology
Jun 16, 2020
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Michigan have detected bromine atoms in the atmosphere, and in doing so, have confirmed the reaction pathway through which mercury is removed from the atmosphere and enters ...
Environment
Jul 2, 2019
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