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Study reveals how gas, temperature controlled bacterial response to Deepwater Horizon spill

In a new study, UC Santa Barbara scientists explain how they used DNA to identify microbes present in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how they identified the microbes responsible ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Highlight: Biochemists discover that enzyme converts CO to propane

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Irvine researchers were exploring vanadium nitrogenase's ability to form ammonia when they stumbled onto its other ability, which could be exploited for the cost-efficient production of fuels.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Saturn Moon Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane

(PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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The Medical Minute: Avoiding two winter weather-related problems

Though it may not have felt like winter until recently, it is that time of year when environmental exposures to the cold weather will be causing many problems for people. Here are some tips for preventing and safely treating ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Algae for your fuel tank: New process for producing biodiesel from microalgae oil

The available amount of fossil fuels is limited and their combustion in vehicle motors increases atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The generation of fuels from biomass as an alternative is on the rise. In ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

7 things you may not know about catalysis

Catalysts are one of those things that few people think much about, beyond perhaps in high school chemistry, but they make the world tick. Almost everything in your daily life depends on catalysts: cars, Post-It ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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Americans using more fossil fuels

American energy use went back up in 2010 compared to 2009, when consumption was at a 12-year low. The United States used more fossil fuels in 2010 than in 2009, while renewable electricity remained approximately ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Super-tough seed coat keeps Michaux's sumac on critically endangered list

It is one of the rarest shrubs in the southeastern United States, and for scientists trying to save it, the critically endangered Michaux's sumac (Rhus michauxii) is not cooperating.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Forces within molecules can strengthen extra-long carbon-carbon bonds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The strength of a chemical bond between atoms is the fundamental basis for a molecule’s stability and reactivity. Tuning the strength and accessibility of the bond can dramatically change ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hybrid solar system makes rooftop hydrogen

While roofs across the world sport photovoltaic solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, a Duke University engineer believes a novel hybrid system can wring even more useful energy out of the sun's ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Sun-free photovoltaics

A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all. While the principle involved is not new, a novel way of engineering ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Towns near NM fire, nuclear lab wary of smoke

(AP) -- Residents downwind of a wildfire that is threatening the nation's premier nuclear-weapons laboratory are worried about the potential of a radioactive smoke plume if the flames reach thousands of barrels ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Self-cleaning anodes could facilitate cost-effective coal-powered fuel cells

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, researchers have developed a self-cleaning technique that could allow solid oxide fuel cells to be powered directly by coal gas at operating temperatures as low as 750 degrees Celsius. The ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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