Physical Sciences
Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have employed microfluidicsthe manipulation of fluids at the microscopic scaleto make microdroplets that contain single molecules of interest.
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Brent Shanks studies chemical catalysts in Iowa State University's Sweeney Hall. Just a few buildings to the north, Basil Nikolau studies biological catalysts.
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Two chemistry professors and a graduate student from University of the Pacific have developed a quick and easy way to determine if homes contain contaminated drywall made in China.
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Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer
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Spain's first seafloor laboratory, the Expandable Seafloor Observatory (OBSEA), located three miles off the coast of Vilanova i la Geltr at a depth of 20 meters, has begun real-time transmissions
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Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method for making extremely pure, very small metal-oxide nanoparticles.
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Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildingsa place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.
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For Professor Chad Mirkin, good things come in small packages - specifically one billionth of a meter in size.
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The majority of the zetameters are based on the electrophoresis measuring principle where the zeta potential for a colloidal system is analyzed by measurement of the electrophoretic mobility of the particles.
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In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging coating.
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NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age. The event, dubbed GRB 090423, is the most distant cosmic explosion ever seen.
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