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Hubble Finds 'Birth Certificate' of Oldest Known Star
March 7, 2013 — Astronomers have taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time. The star could be as old as 14.5 billion years (plus or minus 0.8 ... > full story -
Ketchup Turns Somersaults
March 7, 2013 — Blood, paint or ketchup are complex liquids composed of several different components. For the construction of pumps, or the improvement of technical processes scientists and engineers need ... > full story -
Killing Cancer Cells With Acid Reflux
March 7, 2013 — A chemist has come up with a unique way to kill certain cancer cells -- give them acid reflux. Kevin Belfield used a special salt to make cancer cells more acidic -- similar to the way greasy foods ... > full story -
Duckweed as a Cost-Competitive Raw Material for Biofuel Production
March 7, 2013 — The search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that ... > full story -
First Discovery of a Natural Topological Insulator
March 7, 2013 — In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers, scientists are reporting the ... > full story -
Biobatteries Catch Breath
March 7, 2013 — An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from Poland. The core element providing the new power source with relatively high voltage and long lifetime is a carefully designed ... > full story -
Green Tea Extract Interferes With the Formation of Amyloid Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease
March 5, 2013 — Researchers have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the ... > full story -
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New Evidence That Comets Could Have Seeded Life on Earth
March 5, 2013 — Scientists have shown that complex molecules can form on icy dust in space, suggesting that comets may have brought these molecules to Earth and seeded the growth of more complex building blocks of ... > full story -
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Chemists Develop Efficient Material for Carbon Capture
March 5, 2013 — Chemists have discovered a more efficient, less expensive and reusable material for carbon dioxide capture and ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuels from Natural Gas and Biomass? New Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst Invented
March 5, 2013 — Inspired by patents from the 1960s audio cassette recording industry, chemists now developed a new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. It can be used for the making of synthetic fuels from natural gas and ... > full story
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