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New Idaho National Lab collaboration tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel.


Alzheimer's research yields potential drug target

Alzheimer's research yields potential drug target

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and several other institutions have found laboratory evidence that a cluster of peptides may be the toxic agent in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists say the discovery may lead ...


'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find ...


Gooda, Gouda! Solving the 800-year-old secret of a big cheese

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Almost 800 years after farmers in the village of Gouda in Holland first brought a creamy new cheese to market, scientists in Germany say they have cracked the secret of Gouda’s good taste. They have identified the key protein ...





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Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. have created an "astro-comb" to help astronomers detect lighter planets, more like Earth, around distant stars. The Harvard group will present ...


Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines

Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyze life-sustaining protein molecules. The technique may profoundly change the methodology of biomolecular ...


Orientation of antenna protein in photosynthetic bacteria described

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find in the process of energy transfer ...


Scientists create tiny mass spectrometer

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created Mar 09, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Purdue University scientists have created battery-powered, miniature instruments that might be used in protecting again terrorist bombings.


New NIST reference material for peptide analysis

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created May 25, 2007 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first-ever reference material designed to improve the performance and reliability of experiments to measure the masses and concentrations of peptides ...


Disc Aroung Young Star

Astronomers get best view yet of infant stars at feeding time

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars. They obtained a ...


Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible

Chemistry /

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ...


Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...


Plant soybean early to increase yield

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Over the past decade, two-thirds of Indiana growers have shifted to planting their soybean crop earlier because they believe that earlier planting increases yield. Planting date is probably one of the most important yet least ...


Rescuing male turkey chicks

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A novel approach to classify the gender of six-week-old turkey poults could save millions of male chicks from being killed shortly after birth, according to Dr. Gerald Steiner from the Dresden University of Technology in ...



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