CHEMISTRY

Milk Spoiler Alert: Sensor Capable of Detecting Milk Spoilage

Medicine & Technology May 08, 2019

Study reveals a sensor is capable of detecting whether milk is fresh or not

Radical Desalination Discovered May Disrupt the Water Industry

May 08, 2019

The technology could have massive implications for the future of our drinking water.

A New Type of Quasiparticle Discovered

May 07, 2019

The researchers were the first to see Rarita-Schwinger fermions

Rice Husks Can Effectively Remove Microcystin from Water

May 06, 2019

The rice husks removed more than 95 percent of microcystin MC-LR, the most common type found in Lake Erie, in concentrations of up to 596 parts-per-billion (ppb)

Cultivating Defective Porous Materials for Robust and Selective Heterogeneous Catalysis

May 06, 2019

It opens new avenues to develop robust heterogeneous catalysts for a wide variety of gas-phase reactions

Alzheimer’s Disease May Now Be Detected Years Before Symptoms Arise

May 06, 2019

A new two-step diagnosis process may help detect Alzheimer’s disease.

Superionic Ice: The Hottest Ice to Be Invented By Scientists

May 10, 2019

Scientists create an extraordinary, alien form of super hot ice.

Plant Sugars Used as Raw Material for Plastics Chemical

May 11, 2019

Study shows that fructose can be a source of HMF

Hempcrete Researchers Receive Grant from the EPA

May 05, 2019

Hemp’s potential in sustainable construction has won some California researchers a grant from the EPA.

How Hydrogen Atoms Chemically Bind to Graphene in One of the Fastest Reactions Ever Studied

May 03, 2019

The bond lasts for only about ten femtoseconds, ten quadrillionths of a second

Solving Protein Structures from Tiny Crystals with a New Approach

May 03, 2019

The technique indeed opens the door to dealing with microcrystals that have been previously inaccessible such as difficult-to-crystallize cell-surface receptors and other membrane proteins, flexible proteins, and many complex human proteins

Sewers Could Help Clean Our Atmosphere

May 02, 2019

Researchers have concluded that sewer plants serving municipalities worldwide offer a major option for capturing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Although cautioning that research and development is needed before the systems could be deployed, the team identified several potentially viable paths to using sewage as a carbon sink — that is, sewer plants could clean the atmosphere as they clean water.