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Extreme makeover chemistry style

Extreme makeover chemistry style

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have ...


Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.





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Power from Formic Acid

Chemistry /

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society. In this context, hydrogen technology has taken on increased importance.


Energy from ceramics

Energy from ceramics

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 17, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (57) | comments 0

Micro fuel cells are already being acclaimed as an alternative to batteries. However, producing them from hundreds of tiny separate parts is complex and expensive. An alternative is now available: ceramic fuel ...


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise

Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise

Chemistry /

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Some day, fuel cells may power your car and exhaust only water and perhaps carbon dioxide. More efficient and cleaner than an internal combustion engine, their emissions will be much lower. They may also run ...


New organic molecule in space

New organic molecule in space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star forming region Sagittarius B2. In this source of only 0,3 light-year diameter, which is heated by a deeply embedded newly formed star, ...


Treatment with folic acid, vitamin B12 associated with increased risk of cancer, death

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin ...


Study links folic acid supplements to asthma

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A University of Adelaide study may have shed light on the rise in childhood asthma in developed countries like Australia in recent decades.


Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Cause of common chronic diarrhea revealed in new research

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A common type of chronic diarrhoea may be caused by a hormone deficiency, according to new research published in the November issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The author ...


Improving China's acid rain control strategy

Improving China's acid rain control strategy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that China's sharp focus on reducing widespread damage to soil by acid rain by restricting sulfur dioxide air pollution may have an unexpected consequence: Gains ...


Don't block folic acid in early pregnancy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using medication that reduces or blocks the actions of folic acid during the first trimester of pregnancy (weeks 1-12), increases the risk that the growing baby will develop abnormalities. This conclusion was reached by a ...



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