Microplastics are tiny, barely visible plastic particles that can harm the environment, for example, if they are eaten by animals. However, it has been difficult to assess the effect of even smaller particles, which can hardly ...
Nanophysics
Jul 18, 2023
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Gas chromatography is a method of analysis that most people have experienced at one time or another without necessarily knowing it. For example, gas chromatography can be used to reveal food fraud, find out where a particular ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 15, 2019
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Enhancing plants' ability to pull planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it belowground stably and sustainably is the aim of a team of scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ...
Biotechnology
Jul 3, 2023
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Danish researchers at University of Copenhagen lead the way for future monitoring of marine biodiversity and resources. By using DNA traces in seawater samples to keep track of fish and whales in the oceans. A half litre ...
Ecology
Aug 30, 2012
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A new research paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative (ECI) demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time solution to screening ...
Ecology
Mar 28, 2013
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Artistic sketches can be used to capture details of a scene in a simpler image. MIT researchers are now bringing that concept to computational biology, with a novel method that extracts comprehensive samples—called "sketches"—of ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 2, 2019
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A research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated a new method for detecting ignitable liquids that could change the way arson fires are investigated. The new process for analyzing debris ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 18, 2014
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All chlamydiae today live inside the cells of hosts ranging from amoeba to animals. A team of scientists from the University of Vienna and the Wageningen University & Research found that the ancestor of chlamydiae likely ...
Evolution
Jan 10, 2023
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Researchers from Newcastle University, and colleagues from Spain, Canada and Egypt, have successfully trialed two new qPCR assays to help detect the presence of transmissible AMR using water and wastewater samples. Publishing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 21, 2021
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University of Queensland researchers estimate there could be up to 7,000 tons of microplastics polluting vital ecosystems in Brisbane's Moreton Bay.
Environment
Mar 25, 2024
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