 A dash of salt grows healthier tomatoes April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Watering tomatoes with diluted seawater can boost their content of disease-fighting antioxidants and may lead to healthier salads, appetizers, and other tomato-based foods, scientists in Italy report. Their ... | |
 Chemists reproduce the rose's 'petal effect' April 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The lotus flower is nature’s “slip n’ slide,” where water beads skate along each petal’s surface like liquid metal. Now, chemists reveal the ying to the lotus’ frictionless yang: rose petals. Chemists have ... | |
 Findings a step toward making new optical materials April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies. | |
Insulin pill could replace injections for diabetes April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Insulin pills to replace the injections necessary for those suffering from diabetes appear closer to reality through new research by chemical and biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. | |
Green Gel: Hybrid material made from polymers and proteins fluoresces and respnods to pH value and temperature April 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and proteins. They have thus been able to fuse the specific biological ... | |
 Alligator blood may put the bite on antibiotic-resistant infections April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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Despite their reputation for deadly attacks on humans and pets, alligators are wiggling their way toward a new role as potential lifesavers in medicine, biochemists in Louisiana reported today at the 235th ... | |
 Meteorites delivered the 'seeds' of Earth's left-hand life April 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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Flash back three or four billion years — Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent ... | |
Argonne scientists develop techniques for creating molecular movies April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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They may never win an Oscar, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed techniques for creating accurate movies of biological and chemical molecules, a feat only theorized ... | |
 How sweet it is: 'Revolutionary' process points to sugar-fueled cars April 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without ... | |
 Nuclear scientists eye future landfall on a second 'island of stability' April 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Modern-day scientific Magellans and Columbus’s, exploring the uncharted seas at the fringes of the Periodic Table of the Elements, have landed on one long-sought island — the fabled Island of Stability, home ... | |
 Dr. Mom was right -- and wrong -- about washing fruits and vegetables April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Washing fresh fruits and vegetables before eating may reduce the risk of food poisoning and those awful episodes of vomiting and diarrhea. But according to new research, described today at the 235th national ... | |
 Cow stomach holds key to turning corn into biofuel April 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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An enzyme from a microbe that lives inside a cow’s stomach is the key to turning corn plants into fuel, according to Michigan State University scientists. | |
 Money doesn't grow on trees, but gasoline might April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of "green gasoline," a liquid identical to standard gasoline yet created from sustainable biomass sources like switchgrass and poplar trees. | |
Scientists develop safe 'green' decontamination method April 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Research by two Queen’s scientists has resulted in an exciting new method for rapidly and safely destroying toxic agents such as chemical weapons and pesticides. | |
Researchers uncover process behind heart muscle contraction April 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago were able to control heart muscle function in a new way after discovering the previously unknown role of two enzymes in heart muscle contraction, ... | |
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