Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds
Nov 07, 2008 |
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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 ...
Researchers develop inexpensive, easy process to produce solar panels
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets.
Genetically engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen
Dec 01, 2006 |
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Scientists have combined two molecules that occur naturally in blood to engineer a molecular complex that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, says research published today in the Journal of ...
Device Uses Solar Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel (Update)
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas into a useful product.
Splitting Water with Sunlight
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Hydrogen is one of the most important fuels of the future, and the sun will be one of our most important sources of energy. Why not combine the two to produce hydrogen directly from solar energy without any detours involving ...
Cheap source of energy: Cell splits water via sunlight to produce hydrogen
May 01, 2007 |
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Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructured catalyst.
A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath ...
Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology
Aug 27, 2007 |
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Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts to submarines and cars to emergency ...
Super atoms turn the periodic table upside down
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms ...
Plastic that grows on trees
Jun 14, 2007 |
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Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source ...
Genetic 'telepathy'? A bizarre new property of DNA
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Scientists are reporting evidence that intact, double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. And then like friends with similar interests, the bits of genetic ...
New energy source? Scientists convert heat to power using organic molecules
Feb 15, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have successfully generated electricity from heat by trapping organic molecules between metal nanoparticles, an achievement that could pave the way toward ...
Meteorites delivered the 'seeds' of Earth's left-hand life
Apr 06, 2008 |
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Flash back three or four billion years — Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent ...
Scientists learn from nature to split water
Aug 17, 2008 |
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An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen ...
Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a proof-of-concept device that ...
