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Energy from light and water: New photocatalytic method for the clean production of hydrogen from water
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen-powered fuel cells and solar energy are the best hope for a more environmentally friendly and resource-sparing energy supply in the future. A combination of the two is considered to be particularly ...
New approach to treating breast and prostate cancers
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In a new approach to developing treatments for breast cancer, prostate cancer and enlarged hearts, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are zeroing in on a workhorse protein called RSK.
Researchers develop 'lab on a chip' that detects viruses (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brigham Young University engineers and chemists has created an inexpensive silicon microchip that reliably detects viruses, even at low concentrations.
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Research reveals link between beer and bone health
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Cars of the future could be powered by their bodywork thanks to new battery technology
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An answer to another of life's big questions
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Repulsive interactions
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Sweet! -- sugar plays key role in cell division
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Physicists investigate structural properties of spider webs,
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Exploring the characteristics of viscoelastic fluids,
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Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems,
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Creating a quantum gas,
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Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs',
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Sure, some delicacies might taste just like chicken, but they usually feel and look much different. Soy meat alternatives, such as the soy burger, have become more popular recently, with increased sales of ...
Compound could become important new antidepressant
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Chemists at Oregon State University have discovered and synthesized a new compound that in laboratory and animal tests appears to be similar to, but may have advantages over one of the most important antidepressant medications ...
New material absorbs, conserves oil (w/ Video)
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An ultra-lightweight sponge made of clay and a bit of high-grade plastic draws oil out of contaminated water but leaves the water behind.
First discovery of the female sex hormone progesterone in a plant
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In a finding that overturns conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting the first discovery of the female sex hormone progesterone in a plant. Until now, scientists thought that only animals could make progesterone. ...
Meteorite yields carbon crystals harder than diamond
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two new types of ultra-hard carbon crystals have been found by researchers investigating the ureilite class Haverö meteorite that crashed to Earth in Finland in 1971. Ureilite meteorites are ...
Plant derivative could help refine cancer treatment
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Medical College of Georgia researchers are seeking to refine cancer treatment with an anti-inflammatory plant derivative long used in Chinese medicine.
Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk.
Chemists discover how antiviral drugs bind to and block flu virus
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Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led ...
Smart Coating Opens Door To Safer Hip, Knee and Dental Implants
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection.
Imaging method for eye disease used to eye art forgeries
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Scientists in Poland are describing how a medical imaging technique has taken on a second life in revealing forgery of an artist's signature and changes in inscriptions on paintings that are hundreds of years ...
New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light
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In an advance with overtones of Star Trek phasers and other sci-fi ray guns, scientists in Canada are reporting development of an internal on-off "switch" that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet ...
Toward safer plastics that lock in potentially harmful plasticizers
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers — the source of long-standing human health concerns — from migrating from one of the most widely used ...
New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
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For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the 'soup' theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper ...
3-D scaffold provides clean, biodegradable structure for stem cell growth
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Medical researchers were shocked to discover that virtually all human embryonic stem cell lines being used in 2005 were contaminated. Animal byproducts used to line Petri dishes had left traces on the human ...
Biochemists Provide New Key for Treating Fabry Disease, a Rare Childhood Disorder
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has for the first time determined the mechanism of one of the cell’s 'recycling' enzymes, human alpha-galactosidase ...
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Smart capsules that release their contents at a selected temperature
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Crystallisation research mimics nature
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New adhesive device could let humans walk on walls (w/ Video)
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Researcher identifies cell mechanism leading to diabetic blindness
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Scientists create new way to screen libraries of 10 million or more compounds
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Self-healing polymer 'starfish' prolong lifetime of automotive oils
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New paper describes important advance in imaging of cell death
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Europe seeks alternatives to natural latex from Asia
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Microbes produce fuels directly from biomass
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Vitamin D supplements could fight Crohn's disease
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The fungus among us: An eco-friendly way of decomposing BPA-containing plastic
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The secret life of smoke in fostering rebirth and renewal of burned landscape
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A Venus flytrap for nuclear waste
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Marine lab hunts subtle clues to environmental threats to blue crabs
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Flash frozen under the electron microscope: Examining the mechanical properties of Alzheimer’s amyloid fibrils
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How to shoot the messenger
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Researchers correct the record about behavior of important human protein tied to cancer
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Brain protein critical to movement, memory, and learning deciphered at the Advanced Light Source
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Shedding new light on cancer
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Zebrafish swim into drug development
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