 Meteorites delivered the 'seeds' of Earth's left-hand life April 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 89 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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, ... | |
 'Kind and Gentle' Molecular Machine Could Operate at Near-Equilibrium December 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Molecular machines – tiny machines made of molecules that do mechanical work – are usually thought to operate in a state of non-equilibrium. This makes sense, considering that macro-sized machines operate ... | |
 A boost for bamboo-based blouses and blankets April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Rising interest in “sustainable” fabrics is fostering a bamboo boom, in which bamboo-based fabrics are hitting the market as a leading eco-friendly textile. | |
 Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness, strength when exposed to liquids March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the departments of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering at the Case School of Engineering and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department ... | |
Algae could one day be major hydrogen fuel source April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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As gas prices continue to soar to record highs, motorists are crying out for an alternative that won’t cramp their pocketbooks. | |
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