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'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

Jun 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (13) | 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical ...

Secret behind the composition of the varnish on Stradivari violins revealed

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 04, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antonio Stradivari is the most famous instrument maker of all time. He was especially famous for his violins, which he produced in Cremona from about 1665 until his death in 1737. In particular, ...

Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (12) | 0

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...

Researchers: Champagne's aroma comes from bubbles

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Sep 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- Don Ho was right. It is the tiny bubbles. A team of researchers - in Europe not surprisingly - found that Champagne's bursting bubbles not only tickle the nose, they create a mist that wafts the aroma to the drinker.

New biosensor can detect bacteria instantaneously

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Sep 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

A research group from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) in Tarragona, Spain, has developed a biosensor that can immediately detect very low levels of Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. ...

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Aug 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (11) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...

Producing hydrogen from urine

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Jul 03, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (52) | 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- You do two things at motorway services: fill up one tank and empty another. US chemists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract ...

When atoms getting close: Shortest carbon-chlorine single bond detected

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

May 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

The description of compounds and interactions between atoms is one of the basic objectives of chemistry. Admittedly, chemical bonding models, which describe these properties very well, already exist. However, any deviation ...

Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Mar 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...

'Holy powder' ingredient makes membranes behave for better health

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Mar 06, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 1

Revered in India as "holy powder," the marigold-colored spice known as turmeric has been used for centuries to treat wounds, infections and other health problems. In recent years, research into the healing powers of turmeric's ...

Sniffing Out a Better Chemical Sensor

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Oct 29, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (14) | 0

(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 ...

Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.

A little magic provides an atomic-level look at bone

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone. The research by scientists at the University of Michigan ...

Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Nov 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Nov 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (11) | 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...