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• Flames In Microgravity

  
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  This is actually an interesting video on the physics of flames, and the physics of flames in microgravity. It shows a flame experiment on the International Space Station. Zz.
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• Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra catalyst materials for fuel cells save 90 percent platinum

  
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  Efficient, robust and economic catalyst materials hold the key to achieving a breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Scientists from Jülich and Berlin have developed a material for converting hydrogen and oxygen to water using a tenth of the typical amount of platinum that was previously required. With the aid of ...
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• Polymer-coated catalyst protects ‘artificial leaf’

  
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  Due to the fluctuating availability of solar energy, storage solutions are urgently needed. One option is to use the electrical energy generated inside solar cells to split water by means of electrolysis, in the process yielding hydrogen that can be used for a storable fuel. Researchers at the HZB Institute for Solar ...
  15 hours ago

• Detection of apple juices and cereals which exceed permitted levels of mycotoxins

  
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  Researchers from the University of Granada (Spain) have analysed the presence of patulin, a type of toxin produced by fungi, in several commercial apple juices. The results show that more than 50% of the samples analysed exceed the maximum limits laid down by law. They have also discovered a sample of rice with more ...
  16 hours ago

• Pioneering breakthrough of chemical nanoengineering to design drugs controlled by light

  
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  Researchers at IRB Barcelona and IBEC achieve photo-switchable molecules to control protein-protein interactions in a remote and non-invasive manner. These tools will serve as a prototype to develop photo-switchable drugs, whose effects would be limited to a given region and time, thus reducing the side effects on ...
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• Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates

  
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  (Phys.org) —Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice University researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the worlds most-used industrial minerals.
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• Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.

  
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  Source: Supreme Court of the United States From Opinion of the Court: Respondent Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Myriad), discovered the precise location and sequence of two human genes, mutations of which can substantially increase the risks of breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad obtained a number of patents based upon its ...
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• NSIT Quiz Fest 13 Archives: SciTech Quiz 13

  
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  Q13 Answer:   X – Dr. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar,  Y – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The NSIT Quiz Club
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• Chemists produce star-shaped macromolecule that grabs large anions

  
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  Chemists at Indiana University Bloomington have created a symmetrical, five-sided macrocycle that is easy to synthesize and has characteristics that may help expand the molecular tool box available to researchers in biology, chemistry and materials sciences. The molecule, which the researchers call cyanostar, was ...
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• Literary Review: ‘LSD and the Divine Scientist’ by Albert Hofmann

  
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  Originally published in 2011 under the title ‘Tun und Lassen: Essays, Gedaken und Gedichte,’ this Park Street Press edition of Albert Hofmann’s ‘LSD and the Divine Scientist: The Final Thoughts and Reflections of Albert Hofmann’ was released in 2013. Hofmann was a world-renowned scientist who first ...
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• Brain Chemistry Altered by Later Life Experience, Part 2

  
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  I recently wrote of an informative NBC News article of June 2, 2013 (see part 1 here ). Investigative reporter Rebecca Ruiz laid out medical research evidence pointing toward non-genetic alterations in brain chemistry — that is, organic changes in the brain’s chemistry after birth . Specifically, Ruiz’s ...
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• The Future Of The Energy

  
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  Sun from The Tube The early 21st century brings new challenges that chemical industry tries to resolve. In fact, the industry in the 21st century is characterized by a shift towards sustainable energy and addressing the challenges of fossil fuels (peat, coal, oil, natural gas). According to the U.S. Administration ...
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• 30 under 30: Seeking Challenges in Cricket, Golf and Organic Chemistry

  
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  Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting . There, the newest generation of scientists mingles with Nobel Prize winners and discusses their work and ideas. The 2013 meeting is dedicated to chemistry and will involve young researchers from 78 ...
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• Jerome Karle, 94, Dies; Nobelist for Crystallography

  
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  Dr. Karle shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with a former college classmate for creating what is now an essential tool in the development of new drugs.        
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• 30 under 30: Exploring the Atomic Roots of Magnetism

  
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  Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting . There, the newest generation of scientists mingles with Nobel Prize winners and discusses their work and ideas. The 2013 meeting is dedicated to chemistry and will involve young researchers from 78 ...
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• An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea, 2 edition

  
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  Michael E. Q. Pilson, "An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea, 2 edition" English | ISBN: 0521887070 | 2013 | PDF | 533 pages | 10 MB Fully updated and expanded, this new edition provides students with an accessible introduction to marine chemistry. It highlights geochemical interactions between the ocean, ...
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• Genomic assay as an alternative to animal testing

  
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  The method developed by the group in Lund is based on human cells grown in a laboratory. The cells are exposed to a chemical and then parts of their genetic content are filtered out and transferred to a microchip.
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• Ultra-high-resolution microscopy reveals yeast aquaporin transporting water across cell membrane

  
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  (Phys.org) —A team of chemists with members from Sweden and the United States has succeeded in capturing the process by which yeast aquaporin transport water across cell membranes while preventing unwanted protons to pass through. In their paper published in the journal Science, they describe how they used ...
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• Discovery of how a gene that regulates factors involved in bacteria pathogenicity acts

  
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  In a piece of work carried out by the Carbohydrate Metabolism Research Team of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology (a centre jointly owned by the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre, the Spanish National Scientific Research Council-CSIC, and the Government of Navarre), the discovery has been made of the way in which ...
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