Police harassment of Chinese reporter sparks anger and apology
Added: 21.11.2018 5:38 | 12 views | 0 comments
 A Chinese environmental journalist's account of police harassment while reporting on a chemical spill has sparked widespread condemnation online and an apology from the police.
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NASA Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Landing Site: A Crater That Contained a Lake
Added: 20.11.2018 22:18 | 21 views | 0 comments
 The rover will search the Jezero Crater and delta for the chemical building blocks of life and other signs of past microbes.
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How our immune system detects broken DNA
Added: 20.11.2018 21:20 | 4 views | 0 comments
 Our immune system can detect when our own cells are damaged. This DNA damage can come from a variety of sources, such as the sun's UV rays, chemical agents like cigarette smoke, or from genotoxic drugs used in chemotherapy. A new study found that DNA damage can lead to an immune response similar to that observed during viral infection.
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Sunscreen chemicals in water may harm fish embryos
Added: 20.11.2018 21:20 | 3 views | 0 comments
 For most people, a trip to the beach involves slathering on a thick layer of sunscreen to protect against sunburn and skin cancer. However, savvy beachgoers know to reapply sunscreen every few hours because it eventually washes off. Now researchers have detected high levels of sunscreen chemicals in the waters of Shenzhen, China, and they also show that the products can affect zebrafish embryo development.
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Ultra-thin transparent silver films for solar cells
Added: 20.11.2018 17:58 | 2 views | 0 comments
 A new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films has been developed. The material may help build highly efficient solar cells and light-emitting diodes. However, traditional chemical methods have not been able to produce ultra-thin and pure silver films.
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Transforming carbon dioxide into industrial fuels
Added: 20.11.2018 17:58 | 2 views | 0 comments
 One day in the not-too-distant future, the gases coming from power plants and heavy industry, rather than spewing into the atmosphere, could be captured and chemically transformed from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide into industrial fuels or chemicals thanks to a new system that can use renewable electricity to reduce carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide -- a key commodity used in a number of industrial processes.
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Powerful method probes small-molecule structures
Added: 20.11.2018 17:58 | 7 views | 0 comments
 Small molecules -- from naturally occurring metabolites and hormones to synthetic medicines and pesticides -- can have big effects on living things. But for scientists to understand how the molecules work and how to design beneficial ones, they need to know the precise arrangement of atoms and chemical bonds. Now researchers have found a faster, simpler and potentially more reliable way to solve the structures of small molecules.
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Novel material could make plastic manufacturing more energy-efficient
Added: 20.11.2018 17:58 | 2 views | 0 comments
 An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. The material, a metal-organic framework, can extract ethylene, the key ingredient in the most common form of plastic, from a mixture of other chemicals -- while consuming far less energy than usual.
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Chemistry freed from space and time
Added: 19.11.2018 23:18 | 11 views | 0 comments
 Shopping on the internet, storing photos in the cloud, turning up a thermostat with an app -- all are commonplace. Now, the internet of things and the cloud are entering the world of chemical research and production. Researchers have used remote servers in Japan to autonomously optimize conditions to synthesize drugs in a British laboratory. The process was controlled over the internet by researchers in the USA.
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Move over Rover: There's a new sniffing powerhouse in the neighborhood
Added: 19.11.2018 21:03 | 20 views | 0 comments
 Scientists are now homing in on the secrets behind animals' super sniffers to develop an artificial chemical sensor that could be used for a variety of tasks, from food safety to national security.
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