Chemistry

Want To Simulate The High Pressure Of The Earth's Crust? You Have To Go Nuclear

A new pressure cell makes it possible to simulate chemical reactions deep in the Earth's crust. The cell allows researchers to perform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on as little as 10 microliters of liquid at pressures up to 20 kiloBa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 3:42pm

Are You Exposed To BPA, And Does It Matter?

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Article - Steve Hentges - Jul 14 2014 - 10:50am

Water Doesn't Always Wet Water- No, Really

Liquid water is essential for almost every biological process so understanding liquid water is crucial for understanding biology- including some of its exceptional behavior.   According to classical understanding, when water contacts other water, it will ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 10:31am

New Assay Spots Fake Malaria Drugs

A new assay is inexpensive, simple, and can tell whether or not one of the primary drugs being used to treat malaria is genuine – an enormous and deadly problem in the developing world. The World Health Organization has estimated that up to 200,000 lives ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 4:32pm

Vegan Cheese- No Milk, Human DNA Instead

At a secret enclave in the San Francisco metropolitan area, synthetic biologists and DIYBio tinkerers have been hacking nature up to fix the one thing about the vegan diet that would be difficult for many Americans: going without cheese. iGEM- the 10th in ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:14pm

Material Can Extract Radon, Radioactive Elements From Air And Water

 An 'organic cage molecule' called CC3 has been found to separate krypton, radon and xenon from air at concentrations of only a few parts per million.  Gases such as radon, xenon and krypton all occur naturally in the air but in minute quantitie ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 3:39pm

Mitochondria And Antioxidants: A Tale Of Two Scientists

There is a little miracle of science happening in your body right now. As you read this, a minuscule 5 grams of a high-energy molecule called adenosine triphosphate- ATP- is causing all kinds of reactions in order to give you the energy to sit at your com ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 21 2014 - 9:17am

An Easier Way To Create Photonic Crystals

Highly purified crystals that split light with uncanny precision are key parts of high-powered lenses, specialized optics and, potentially, computers that manipulate light instead of electricity. Producing these crystals often involves etching them with a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2014 - 11:00am

Scissoring The Lipids May Lead To Tuberculosis Vaccine

A new strategy enables molecules to be disconnected essentially anywhere, even remote from functionality.   The organic synthesis strategy, developed by Professor Varinder Aggarwal and Dr Ramesh Rasappan in the School of Chemistry, involves a new method f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 12:31pm

Weekend Science: Phthalates In French Wines May Be Contaminating You

Alcohol, including red wine which has acquired its own modern health food mythology, may be damaging to your health in a way you hadn't thought about before. It isn't just the booze itself, a group of scholars contends it's the packaging. Ph ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2014 - 10:53am