According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which manages the most famous awards in the scientific community, the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be shared jointly by three experts, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” In their amazing work, the trio managed to use X-ra... |
7 October 2009
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Over the past several decades, China's fast-paced economic growth has by far surpassed its innovation levels, leaving the country to move ahead scientifically more through imitation than own discoveries. Now, Beijing authorities have taken a stance on this and awarded two of the nation’s most prominent sci... |
12 January 2009
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Recently, the most important scientific prize has been awarded for its Chemistry achievements section. The winners are a Japanese and two American researchers who discovered and improved the applications of the glowing proteins in jellyfish.The actual discovery was made in 1961 by a Japanese citizen, Osamu Shimomura,... |
9 October 2008
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Super atoms are bundles of several tens of individual atoms in a vapor state that have a collective chemical behavior similar to that of a single atom of the same element used to create the super atom. Super atoms have been proven to exist for the first time back in 2005 when a team of researchers created a super ato... |
2 July 2008
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Knowing how solid surfaces interact with liquids is often required in domains such as chemical industry or nanotechnology, but so far nobody succeeded to describe these interactions in simple mathematical formulas. Every time scientists tried to explain the phenomenon through experiments in this field, calculations b... |
9 April 2008
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A team of researchers were finally able to solve a chemistry problem that has been puzzling scientists around the world for almost a century: how to couple two unactivated carbon atoms together using a catalyst.Dave Stuart, Ottawa PhD student, along with his supervisor Dr. Keith Fagnou, both from the Department of ... |
30 May 2007
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Mechanoluminescence is the process of light generation through mechanical forces and it usually happens in crystalline structures, such as sugar or quartz. It can be produced through ultrasound, caused by stress that results in the formation of fractures or simply by rubbing, grinding or cleaving a solid.Sir Franci... |
9 May 2007
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Art forgery dates back more than two-thousand years. Roman sculptors produced copies of Greek sculptures. Presumably the contemporary buyers knew that they were not genuine.Art restoration is a process that attempts to return the work of art to some previous state that the restorer imagines to be "original". This wa... |
23 April 2007
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Reticular chemistry deals with the ability to construct chemical structures from molecular building blocks to create new classes of materials of exceptional variety.A team of chemists from the Center for Reticular Chemistry at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and the departments of chemistry and biochemi... |
13 April 2007
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Spring is definitely here, Easter is just around the corner, birds are singing, trees are blossoming and children are happily playing in the grass. What a fine day for science this is, isn't it? Well, you could argue it actually is a very unfortunate day for science, but I was in the mood for something education... |
6 April 2007
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The old saying "Opposites are attracted to each other" seems to be now scientifically proven.Because DNA experiments seem to enhance the idea that the long lasting happiness of a couple is linked to their biochemical difference. A team at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, US - led by psychologist Christine... |
8 January 2007
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