Chemistry for a Raney day (02 Dec 2008)
Spanish and Mexican scientists have stumbled across a new way to monoalkylate amines that they claim is more environmentally friendly than alternative routes. José García Ruano, at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and colleagues were...
To make better MRI images, let the atoms spin out of control (28 Nov 2008) Scientists in the USA and in France have made a new theoretical advance... machines. In the Journal of Chemical Physics, they explain why scientists couldn't... atomic behavior, scientists can use it to make MRI images sharper. The advance may...
CAS Registers 40 Millionth Substance in CAS registry (28 Nov 2008)
CAS Registry now includes 40 million organic and inorganic substances. CAS Registry Number(R) 1073662-18-6 recently was assigned to an azulenobenzofuran derivative. The 40 millionth substance was identified by a team of CAS scientists...
Los Alamos scientists see new mechanism for superconductivity (26 Nov 2008) Research explains unconventional superconductivity without phonons
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity. In a Nature letter, research led by Tuson Park and Joe D. ......
UBC researchers develop breakthrough technique to unlock the secret of plasmas (26 Nov 2008)
University of British Columbia researchers have developed a technique that brings scientists a big step closer to unlocking the secrets of the most abundant... that are nearly standing still. With this control, scientists have found it possible...
What is the origin of the visible mass of the universe? (26 Nov 2008) Supercomputer calculates the mass of the nucleon
An international team of scientists has for the first time computed the masses of one of the most important constituents of matter - protons and neutrons. The tool which contributed the most to this calculation: JUGENE, a supercomputer...
New material could make gases more transportable (24 Nov 2008)
Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable. Scientists have developed a material made out of a mixture of silica and water which can...
Leeds researchers reshape the future of drug discovery (20 Nov 2008) Scientists in Leeds have devised a new way to create the next generation of man-made molecules in a breakthrough that could revolutionise drug development. Creating new drugs to combat disease and illness requires the completion...
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