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Decoding Touch: Rats Detect Textures With Their Whiskers
April 23, 2013 — With their whiskers rats can detect the texture of objects in the same way as humans do using their fingertips. A new study shows that it is possible to understand what specific object has been ... > full story -
Scientists Map All Possible Drug-Like Chemical Compounds: Library of Millions of Small, Carbon-Based Molecules Chemists Might Synthesize
April 22, 2013 — Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalog the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing ... > full story -
Biological Activity Alters the Ability of Sea Spray to Seed Clouds
April 22, 2013 — Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence their ability to form clouds over the ocean. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to ... > full story -
Geochemical Method Finds Links Between Terrestrial Climate and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
April 22, 2013 — Scientists used a new chemical technique to measure the change in terrestrial temperature associated with a major shift in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations nearly 34 million years ago. Their ... > full story -
Putting the Brakes on Parkinson's
April 22, 2013 — The earliest signs of Parkinson's disease can be deceptively mild. The first thing that movie star Michael J. Fox noticed was twitching of the little finger of his left hand. For years, he made light ... > full story -
Structure of Cell Signaling Molecule Suggests General on-Off Switch
April 21, 2013 — A three-dimensional image of one of the proteins that serves as an on-off switch as it binds to receptors on the surface of a cell suggests there may be a sort of main power switch that could be ... > full story -
Middle-Schoolers Discover Novel Chemical Bond
April 21, 2013 — Middle-school students from rural Maine discovered a novel chemical bond found in animal ... > full story -
Technique Unlocks Design Principles of Quantum Biology
April 19, 2013 — Researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy ... > full story -
Understanding and Prevention of Side Effects Caused by Drugs
April 19, 2013 — Yellow vision, pseudo-pulmonary obstruction, involuntary body movements, respiratory paralysis. These are some of the 1,600 known side effects (SEs) produced by drugs. Adverse effects are one of the ... > full story -
Pollution Plumes in Paris Air Are Richer in Gaseous Aromatic Compounds Than in Los Angeles
April 18, 2013 — What is the origin of the volatile hydrocarbons, other than methane, present in city air? Mainly gasoline-powered vehicles, according to a new study. The study also shows that the proportion of ... > full story
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