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Cow power could generate electricity for millions
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ...
Plastics in oceans decompose, release hazardous chemicals, surprising new study says
Aug 19, 2009 |
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In the first study to look at what happens over the years to the billions of pounds of plastic waste floating in the world's oceans, scientists are reporting that plastics -- reputed to be virtually indestructible ...
Cornell receives federal grants to create fabrics to render toxic chemicals harmless
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 27, 2008 |
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Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts.
New grants to create fabrics that render toxic chemicals harmless
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 23, 2008 |
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Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts.
New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 17, 2009 |
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In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...
Study: Bio-plastic goods not eco-friendly
Apr 27, 2008 |
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Bio-plastic goods can still damage the environment by emitting gases that can impact climate change, a study by a British newspaper found.
Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under curren ...
Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...
Researchers design an alternative to blood test to detect drugs in the body
Jun 21, 2007 |
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The presence of narcotic substances in a person’s body can usually be detected by a blood or urine test.
Chemist sheds light on health benefits of garlic
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A Queen's-led team has discovered the reason why garlic is so good for us.
Earthworm activity can alter forests' carbon-carrying capabilities
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2008 |
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Earthworms can change the chemical nature of the carbon in North American forest litter and soils, potentially affecting the amount of carbon stored in forests, according to Purdue University researchers.
Researchers discover 'radiation-eating' fungi
Biology /
May 23, 2007 |
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Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence ...
Scientists ready to set sail for 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch,' in name of research
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on Earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco Tuesday to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," a massive vortex ...
Single Crystals as Reaction Vessels
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo have made a complex that crystallizes as a porous solid. Common reagents, even bulky ones, can easily diffuse into these pores and are sufficiently mobile to react with embedded ...
Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'
Jun 12, 2009 |
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It may not be the Yeti, but in a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor Hans Cornelissen and his Russian-Dutch team ...
