Using ‘BPA-free’ plastic products could be as harmful to human health — including a developing brain — as those products that contain the controversial chemical, suggest scientists. …read more Source:: Science
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Atmosphere of midsize planet revealed by Hubble, Spitzer
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•Two NASA space telescopes have identified the detailed chemical ‘fingerprint’ of a planet between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. No planets like this can be found in our own …read more Source:: Science
Water formation on the Moon demonstrated
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•A new study has shown chemical, physical, and material evidence for water formation on the Moon. …read more Source:: Science
New coating could have big implications for lithium batteries
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•Scientists have developed a new cathode coating by using an oxidative chemical vapor deposition technique. The new coating can keep a battery’s cathode electrically and ionically conductive and ensures that …read more Source:: Science
Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors
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•Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing to the genetic circuitry of living cells. The research dramatically expands the chemical, physical and environmental cues engineers can use to prompt …read more Source:: Science
Engineers develop fast method to convert algae to biocrude
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•A team of chemical engineers have developed a new kind of jet mixer for creating biomass from algae that extracts the lipids from the watery plants with much less energy …read more Source:: Science
Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory
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•When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the moon’s surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich …read more Source:: Science
Engineers 3D print smart objects with ’embodied logic’
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•Using stimuli-responsive materials and geometric principles, engineers have designed structures that have ’embodied logic.’ Through their physical and chemical makeup alone, they are able to determine which of multiple possible …read more Source:: Science
Light up logic: Engineers perform computational logic with light
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•For the first time, researchers performed logic operations — the basis of computation — with a chemical device using electric fields and ultraviolet light. The device and the pioneering methods …read more Source:: Science
More stable light comes from intentionally ‘squashed’ quantum dots
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•Intentionally ‘squashing’ colloidal quantum dots during chemical synthesis creates dots capable of stable, ‘blink-free’ light emission that is fully comparable with the light produced by dots made with more complex …read more Source:: Science