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- Origin of toxic metals in wheat grains proven
Plants absorb not only nutrients but also toxic metals such as cadmium through their roots. It was previously unclear whether the toxic metals came from the soil or the fertilisers applied. Und... - Predicting the chaos created by bubbles
A team of international researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Johns Hopkins University and Duke University has discovered that a century-old theory describing turbulence...
- DNA as building material for tiny machines and artificial cells
"My work has many points of commonality with the topics that my colleagues in Stuttgart are focusing on," says Yan. "I have therefore been cooperating with Professor Laura Na Liu's working group fo...
- Experiments find the sweet spot for surface area and bubbles to store energy
Electrolysis, passing a current through water to break it into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen, could be a handy way to store excess energy from wind or solar power. The hydrogen can be stored and used...
- Chemical structure paves the way for new broad spectrum antifungals
Fungal infections can be devastating to human health, killing approximately 150 people every hour, resulting in over a million deaths every year, more than malaria and tuberculosis combined. Unfort...
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015: The cells' toolbox for DNA repair
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl, Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK, Paul Modrich... - Metallic gels produce tunable light emission
Researchers at MIT have developed a family of materials that can emit light of precisely controlled colors - even pure white light - and whose output can be tuned to respond to a wide variety of ex...
- Agilent Technologies Announces Creation of New Business Unit in Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the creation of a Materials Sciences Solutions Unit (MSSU) within its Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis business (LSCA). Michael C. Gasparian has been named vi...