Located more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not presumed to be particularly warm. Based on the quantity of sunlight received, the average temperature level in the planet’s upper atmosphere should be around minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit or a freezing minus 73 Celsius. Instead, the measured value rises to […]
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Like a golf cart relocating at 15,000 miles per hour slamming into the side of a football stadium.’ It would have been good if the dinosaurs had a space program. They did not, but some may claim a space program that cannot protect its people from space-based dangers, like colossal asteroids, was not that terrific,
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To work with light to activate processes within genetically modified fission yeast cells is amongst the research conducted by the experimental biologists in the Martin Laboratory at the University of Lausanne, led by Professor Sophie Martin. Team members were conducting such experiments when they saw that a specific protein would become displaced from the cell
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Observing how cells adhere to surfaces and their motility is vitally essential in studying tissue maintenance, injury healing, and even understanding exactly how cancer progresses. A brand-new paper published in The European Physical Journal Plus by Raj Kumar Sadhu, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, steps towards a deeper understanding of these processes. “Cell adhesion
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Scientists from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research study team of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research study enterprise in Singapore, and their local partners from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed the first-ever nanosensor to allow quick testing of
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A new research study published on September 7 details an innovation in developing advanced enzymes to sustain a renewable process to produce one of the vital products of the chemical industry (isobutene), used everywhere from beauty products to fuel. The freshly published discoveries are the outcome of collective work between Global Bioenergies and the team
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A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists had a significant advancement in developing microbial fuel cells-a modern technology that uses natural bacteria to remove electrons from organic matter in wastewater to produce electrical currents. Research detailing the innovation was just recently released in Science. “Living energy-recovery systems using microorganisms inhabiting in wastewater offer a one-two punch
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Electrolytic hydrogen manufacturing powered by renewable energy is viewed as an environmentally safe way to relieve international environmental and energy issues. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a research study team presented a new and low-cost material for electrodes that may offer very efficient, energy-saving hydrogen production: porous, phosphorized CoNi2S4 yolk-shell nanospheres. The half-reactions of water
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A recently developed, cheap sensing unit can spot and accurately measure the amount of the commonly used and contentious herbicide glyphosate in droplets of fluid in a lab examination. Washington State University (WSU) and DL ADV-Tech engineers developed the sensor device, which makes use of nano-sized tubes and tested it on samplings of orange juice
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Students from Monash Chemical Engineering developed a sustainable, autonomous water treatment system that eliminates persistent organic pollutants from industrial wastewater using nature’s natural water treatment cycle as inspiration. The unique Stand Alone Sunflow System (SASS) – developed by Ph.D. students Mostafa Dehghani and Mahdi Naseri, and also undergraduate student Clare Carew – utilizes conveniently accessible as
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