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New Way to Look at Dawn of Life: Focus Shifts from 'Hardware' to 'Software'
December 12, 2012 — One of the great mysteries of life is how it began. What physical process transformed a nonliving mix of chemicals into something as complex as a living cell? A novel approach to the question of ... > full story -
Physics on a Plane: Helium Crystals Grown in Zero Gravity
December 12, 2012 — Physicists from Japan have taken to the skies to grow crystals in zero gravity. Helium crystals were grown using high pressures, extremely low temperatures (0.6K/-272°C) and by splashing them ... > full story -
Research May Have Important Implications for Combating Diabetes
December 12, 2012 — Biochemists are providing new insights that could have important implications for understanding and treating ... > full story -
Study Paves Way to Design Drugs Aimed at Multiple Protein Targets at Once
December 12, 2012 — Pharmaceutical chemists had suggested that the objective of a drug hitting multiple targets simultaneously is impossible and unlikely to succeed. A new study shows how to efficiently and effectively ... > full story -
Substance With Promising in Vitro Anti-Cancer Effects Synthesized: Substance Found in Tiny Amounts in Chinese Medicinal Herb
December 12, 2012 — In science's equivalent of ascending Mt. Everest, researchers are reporting success in one of the most difficult challenges in synthetic chemistry -- a field in which scientists reproduce natural and ... > full story -
New Geometries: Researchers Create New Shapes of Artificial Microcompartments
December 12, 2012 — Researchers have figured out how to mimic the different shapes of microcompartments found in nature. The findings could have implications in materials research, targeted drug delivery, and ... > full story -
Ultra-Short Laser Pulses Control Chemical Processes
December 12, 2012 — Specially shaped laser pulses can be used to change the state of electrons in a molecule. This process only takes several attoseconds -- but it can initiate another, much slower process: The ... > full story -
Was Life Inevitable? New Paper Pieces Together Metabolism's Beginnings
December 12, 2012 — A new synthesis by two researchers offers a coherent picture of how metabolism, and thus all life, arose. The study offers new insights into how the complex chemistry of metabolism cobbled itself ... > full story -
New Method to Understand Superconductors
December 12, 2012 — Researchers have devised a new method to understand the processes that happen when atoms cool which could lead to new materials for superconducting power grids and widespread use of magnetic ... > full story -
Photosynthesis: Mysterious Enzyme Structure Solved
December 12, 2012 — Scientists have solved a long-standing puzzle in photosynthesis research. With the aid of quantum chemistry they were able to provide unexpected insight into the properties of the oxygen evolving ... > full story
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