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  Light Tsunami in a Superconductor

  April 3, 2013 — Superconductors are materials which conduct electric currents without any resistance. Scientists have managed to selectively influence this resistance-free conductivity with a powerful terahertz ... > full story
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  Interactive Textbook Offers New Resource for Chemists

  April 2, 2013 — A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has created the first-ever fully interactive advanced organic chemistry textbook, called "The Portable Chemist’s Consultant: A Survival ... > full story
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  Bioglass Helping to Mend Bones

  April 2, 2013 — Researchers at the University of the Basque Country have been studying new materials or implants that are of interest in medicine and in helping to mend bones, in particular. They have in fact ... > full story
• Organic Chemistry
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  New Clues in the Search to Rediscover the Mysterious Maya Blue Formula

  April 2, 2013 — The recipe and process for preparing Maya Blue, a highly-resistant pigment used for centuries in Mesoamerica, were lost. We know that the ingredients are a plant dye, indigo, and a type of clay known ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  Watching Fluid Flow at Nanometer Scales: Tiny Nanowires Can Lift Liquids as Effectively as Tubes

  April 1, 2013 — Imagine if you could drink a glass of water just by inserting a solid wire into it and sucking on it as though it were a soda straw. It turns out that if you were tiny enough, that method would work ... > full story
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  Picking Apart Photosynthesis: New Insights Could Lead to Better Catalysts for Water Splitting

  March 29, 2013 — Chemists believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of photosynthesis. The finding suggests a new way of approaching the design of catalysts that drive the water-splitting reactions ... > full story
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  Inorganic Materials Display Massive and Instantaneous Swelling and Shrinkage

  March 29, 2013 — The first observation of massive swelling and shrinkage of inorganic layered materials like a biological cell provides insights into the production of two-dimensional ... > full story
• Energy and the Environment
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  'Waste Heat' May Economize CO2 Capture

  March 29, 2013 — Scientists have found it may be possible to use "waste" heat to remove CO2 instead of the higher pressure steam needed to make ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  Everything You Know About Osmosis Is (Probably) Wrong

  March 28, 2013 — Even though the concept is important to plant and human physiology, osmosis is understood in biology and chemistry in simple -- and often incorrect -- ... > full story
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  Even Graphene Has Weak Spots

  March 28, 2013 — Less-than-perfect sheets of atom-thick graphene show unexpected weakness, according to ... > full story

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