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1 min ago | Anthroblogogy

Oldest water on earth

The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth , but in similar oases that may exist on Mars , the scientists who studied the water said.

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Sat May 18, 2013

LongmontFYI

Longmont's Zometool settling in (hopefully) for growth phase

The roots of Longmont's Zometool date back decades, but the company has undergone a transformation in recent years.

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The Indianapolis Star

Nearly 250 faculty, students, community members provide ideas on how Purdue can save $40M

President Mitch Daniels isn’t the only one at Purdue University on a quest to save money at the West Lafayette campus.

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Live Science

vial of krypton gas

Discovery: The element was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, a Scottish chemist, and Morris M. Travers, an English chemist, in 1898.

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Edmonton Journal

My House Beautiful: Hammers meet high heels in this home

With nary a 90-degree angle anywhere, a stone feature wall and other accessories she built herself, plus ceiling to floor windows overlooking Edmonton's river valley, Maegan Lukian's Edmonton condo is one of a kind.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, North America Travel, Travel, Canada Travel, Edmonton, Canada Travel, Science

Gizmag

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission goes to development

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission took a step closer to reality on Wednesday, as the OSIRIS-REx project was cleared for development and testing.

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Sunherald.com

D'Iberville designer drug trial delayed because attorney wants chemistry expert

The trial of a man accused of picking up packages of a designer drug shipped to D'Iberville from China has been delayed while his attorney consults an expert in chemistry.

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Scientific American

An invasive ladybug uses a biological weapon to kill off competitors

When the Europeans discovered the "New World", they infamously brought with them diseases which that world had never before encountered.

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Fri May 17, 2013

Time

Forget the IRS - There's an Olive-Oil Scandal Afoot

We have an oil problem on our hands, and it has nothing to do with renewable energy and carbon emissions.

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Related Topix: Science, Davis, CA, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, UC Davis

Mashable

Novel Material May Extract Uranium From Seawater

The world's oceans contain nearly a thousand times as much uranium as conventional reserves, and researchers have spent decades trying to develop an efficient way to extract it.

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Related Topix: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Science, North Carolina

Chemical & Engineering News

Archaeology's Hidden Secrets

Ancient ivory carvings made by Phoenician artists some 3,000 years ago have long hidden a secret, even while being openly displayed in museums around the world: The sculptures were originally painted with colorful pigments, and some were decorated with gold.

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Spectroscopy

Improving the taste of tomatoes using GC?MS

The preservation of food at home is a major concern for all consumers. A group of researchers from INRA in Avignon, France, have conducted a study into tomato aroma with the aim of finding the optimum conditions for storage.

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Nooga.com

How chemistry writes music

When singer/songwriters Josh and Nicole Johnson got married, their married friends in Nashville gave them a piece of advice: One musician should entirely give up his or her career to support his or her partner, or the two should form a duo.

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WIDN Design Network

Construction underway for $80 million science centre at Coppin State University

Construction work is underway for the new $80 million Science and Technology Center at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland which is designed by the architectural firm Cannon Design to provide access to cutting edge, high performance sciences and technology education.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Science Daily

Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are.

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Science Daily

Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated...

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy 's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Department of Energy, Science, UC Berkeley, Solar Energy

Newkerala.com

National Computational Chemistry Workshop from May 31

Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 : To keep students abreast of the latest trends and developments in computational chemistry, Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences is organising a four-day national workshop on the subject here.

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The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Prebiotic Chemistry within a Simple Impacting Icy Mixture

We present results of prebiotic organic synthesis in shock compressed mixtures of simple ices from quantum molecular dynamics simulations extended to close to equilibrium time scales.

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Scientific Computing/Instrument.

CERN Physicists Measure Fundamental Property of Rarest Element on Earth

An international team of physicists at the radioactive-beam facility ISOLDE at CERN have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine*. The value for astatine, published in the journal Nature Communications, could help chemists to develop applications for the element in radiotherapy, and will serve ... (more)

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Inorganic Chemistry

Novel Soft-Chemistry Route of Ag2Mo3O10A 2H2O Nanowires and in Situ ...

Ultrathin Ag2Mo3O10A 2H2O nanowires were synthesized by soft chemistry under atmospheric pressure from a hybrid organic-inorganic polyoxometalate 2[Mo7O22] and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, DSC/TGA analyses, FT-IR and FT-Raman spectroscopies, scanning electron microscopy , and transmission electron microscopy .

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