The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie allows scientists to manipulate a molecule ...
Apr 24, 2007
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By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades ...
General Physics
Apr 24, 2007
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An island has separated from mainland Greenland because of global climate change.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Energy has designated its Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor as a National Scientific User Facility.
General Physics
Apr 24, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Energy said an 8,000-foot-deep well has been completed in Ohio in preparation for a geological sequestration field test.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2007
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U.S. astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, renowned for his research into celestial phenomena, has died after a three-year battle with brain cancer.
Other
Apr 24, 2007
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An experiment called "shining light through walls" would seem hard to improve upon. But University of Florida physicists have proposed a way to do just that, a step they say considerably improves the chance of detecting one ...
General Physics
Apr 24, 2007
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An innovative methodology developed by U.S. government scientists might help speed reformulated diesel fuels to market.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 24, 2007
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When a person's under stress or injured, the adrenal gland releases cortisol to help restore the body's functions to normal. But the hormone's effects are many and varied, lowering the activity of the immune system, helping ...
Apr 24, 2007
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Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose enzyme complex ...
Apr 24, 2007
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