 Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds November 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 218 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whoever thought that science was a dry subject might change their mind after learning about a new discovery in which tequila is turned into diamonds. A team of Mexican scientists found that ... | |
Women have more diverse hand bacteria than men November 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates that not only do human hands harbor far higher numbers of bacteria species than previously believed, women have a significantly greater diversity of microbes on their ... | |
 UK fingerprint 'developer' can read a letter from its envelope November 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UK scientists have discovered a fingerprint'“developer' which can highlight invisible prints on almost any surface – and read the text of a letter just from the envelope it was sent in. | |
Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ... | |
Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries? November 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ... | |
Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally November 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says. | |
New material could make gases more transportable November 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable. | |
Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire' October 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed ... | |
Researchers discover new way to attack some forms of leukemia October 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Each year, some 29,000 adults and 2,000 children are diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer that is caused by the abnormal production of white blood cells in the bone marrow. Current treatments rely primarily on killing ... | |
 Forensic chemists verify human remains from fat deposits November 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the absence of evidence such as bones, clothing or strands of hair, forensic investigators can verify whether a body decomposed at a site indoors by looking for traces of lingering fat ... | |
 Soapy property improves electron mobility in organic semiconductors October 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors are a main component in a variety of future organic electronics, such as flexible flat-panel displays, inexpensive solar cells, and other unique devices. Because of ... | |
 Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marrying a sensitive detector technology capable of distinguishing hundreds of different chemical compounds with a pattern-recognition module that mimics the way animals recognize odors, researchers ... | |
Researchers find new chemical key that could unlock hundreds of new antibiotics October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry researchers at The University of Warwick and the John Innes Centre, have found a novel signalling molecule that could be a key that will open up hundreds of new antibiotics unlocking them from the ... | |
 Mini-laboratory gets megaproductive October 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dawid Zalewski of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a mini-laboratory on a chip that can purify biological mixtures continuously. This is very different from the usual method ... | |
 Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding November 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "One type of solar cell design starts with a chain of chromophores strung between two electrodes," explained Dewey Holten, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. "This chain absorbs ... | |
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