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Polarizers may enhance remote chemical detection

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chemists can analyze the composition of a suspected bomb -- without actually touching and possibly detonating it -- using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS. The tool is also commonly used for ...





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Can genetic information be controlled by light?

Chemistry /

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue ...


Access Grid, New Spectrometer, High-Resolution Mammography System Win R&D 100 awards

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 08, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised three of the world's top 100 scientific and technological innovations during 2006, as judged by R&D magazine.


Is Methane The First Direct Sign Of Extra-Terrestrial Life?

Space & Earth /

created Aug 09, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Are microbes making the methane that's been found on Mars, or does the hydrocarbon gas come from geological processes? It's the question that everybody wants to answer, but nobody can. What will it take to convince the ...



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