News tagged with chemical makeup

DNA as invisible ink can reversibly hide patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know of DNA as the building blocks of life, these large molecules also have potential applications in areas such as biosensing, nanoparticle assembly, and building supramolecular ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Chemical measurements confirm official estimate of 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rate

By combining detailed chemical measurements in the deep ocean, in the oil slick, and in the air, NOAA scientists and academic colleagues have independently estimated how fast gases and oil were leaking during ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Endeavour crater provides possible evidence of past water

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity is a senior citizen, but still spry, and as it peers over the rim of the giant impact crater called Endeavour, it's embarking on what could be called a new mission, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New 'nano-drug' hits brain-tumor target found in 2001

Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With further ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study to reveal link between climate and early human evolution

Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine on the edge of the Serengeti Plain, East Africa, and is home to some of the world's most important fossil hominins. Geologists are investigating the chemical composition of carbonate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected for Mars Mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's High Resolution Stereo Color Imager was selected as one of five instruments for the first joint mission to Mars by NASA and the European Space Agency. HiSCI is designed to uncover ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Instruments selected for Mars

ESA and NASA have selected the scientific instruments for their first joint Mars mission. Scheduled for 2016, it will study the chemical makeup of the martian atmosphere, including methane. Discovered in 2003, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail

(PhysOrg.com) -- As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured, baked object that ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Biochemists take a bead on gene-controlling code

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA may provide the blueprint for life, but scientists are learning more about the role of a chemical code that governs the way that blueprint is read.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering its chemical makeup -- are an important part of life in our three-dimensional world. Water falls to the ground as snow, melts ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genomes of identical twins reveal epigenetic changes that may play role in lupus

Identical twins look the same and are nearly genetically identical, but environmental factors and the resulting cellular changes could cause disease in one sibling and not the other. In a study published online in Genome Re ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box

(PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists control living cells with light; advances could enhance stem cells' power

University of Central Florida researchers have shown for the first time that light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures. That ability to optically steer cells could be a major ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers build a new surface material that resists biofilm growth

This is the tale of two biological substances—cells from mammals and bacteria. It's a story about the havoc these microscopic entities can wreak on all manner of surfaces, from mighty ships to teeth and medical devices, and ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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