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Energy from light and water: New photocatalytic method for the clean production of hydrogen from water

Chemistry / Materials Science

13 hours ago | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 9 |

(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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

11 hours ago | 2.5 / 5 (2) | 0

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)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Feb 08, 2010 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

(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.

It looks, feels and tastes like chicken, but it's made of soy

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 04, 2010 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 14 |

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

Chemistry / Other

Feb 04, 2010 | 4.9 / 5 (11) | 7 |

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)

Chemistry / Polymers

Feb 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (9) | 2 |

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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 04, 2010 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 1 |

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.8 / 5 (31) | 2 |

(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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0 |

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 0 |

(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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 03, 2010 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0 |

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

Feb 03, 2010 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

(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

Chemistry / Other

Feb 03, 2010 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 03, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 02, 2010 | 4.3 / 5 (36) | 26 |

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

Chemistry / Materials Science

Feb 02, 2010 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

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

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0 |

(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 ...