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Martian soil may contain detrimental substance (AP)

Martian soil may contain detrimental substance

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 05, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (30) | comments 6

Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.





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Capturing CO2 in a bowl

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those ...


Stop and smell the flowers -- the scent really can soothe stress

Stop and smell the flowers -- the scent really can soothe stress

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Feeling stressed? Then try savoring the scent of lemon, mango, lavender, or other fragrant plants. Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific evidence that inhaling certain fragrances alter gene ...


Thinking of turning your chemistry green? Consult GEMs

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A database designed to "build community" and reduce barriers when adopting green chemistry has doubled in size in the last two years, its creator told professional colleagues at the national spring meeting of the American ...


Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...


Microswimmers" make a big splash for improved drug delivery

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

They may never pose a challenge to Olympic superstar Michael Phelps, but the "microswimmers" developed by researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom could break a long-standing barrier to improving delivery of medications ...


Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life

Biology /

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...


Physicists work to understand atomic collisions important to ultracold quantum gasses

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

A Kansas State University physicist is continuing his study of atomic collisions with the help of a National Science Foundation grant awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.


World first as scientists grow microtubes from crystals

World first as scientists grow microtubes from crystals (Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a world-first, scientists at the University of Glasgow have grown micro-tube structures from crystals of inorganic compounds.


New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 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 ...


Component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it's not dreams ...



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