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Can Compressed Fluids Increase Enzyme Activity in Industrial Bioprocesses?
December 7, 2012 Enzymes play a crucial role as biocatalysts, increasing the speed and efficiency and decreasing the energy consumption of biochemical reactions in many industrial processes. The advantages of using ... > full story -
Greenland Ice Sheet Carries Evidence of Increased Atmospheric Acidity
December 7, 2012 Studies have shown decreasing levels of the isotope nitrogen-15 in core samples from Greenland ice starting around the time of the Industrial Revolution. New research suggests the decline corresponds ... > full story -
NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal New Dynamics of Earth's Radiation Belts
December 7, 2012 Just 96 days since their launch, NASA's twin Van Allen Probes have already provided new insights into the structure and behavior of the radiation belts that surround Earth, giving scientists a ... > full story -
Tiny Structure Gives Big Boost to Solar Power
December 6, 2012 Researchers have found a simple and economic way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of ... > full story -
Seeing in Color at the Nanoscale: Scientists Develop a New Nanotech Tool to Probe Solar-Energy Conversion
December 6, 2012 If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for ... > full story -
At High Altitude, Carbs Are the Fuel of Choice
December 6, 2012 Mice living in the high-altitude, oxygen-starved environment of the Andean mountains survive those harsh conditions by fueling their muscles with carbohydrates. The findings provide the first ... > full story -
Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes
December 6, 2012 To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews, blows around, and changes composition in response ... > full story -
Flexible Silicon Solar-Cell Fabrics May Soon Become Possible
December 6, 2012 For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that is capable of being scaled up to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the ... > full story -
Biologists Unlocking the Secrets of Plant Defenses, One Piece at a Time
December 5, 2012 Botanists have unraveled an important step in the way the plant hormone jasmonate works. Jasmonate signaling has been a target of intense research because of its important role in maintaining the ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuel Could Eliminate U.S. Need for Crude Oil, Researchers Say
December 5, 2012 The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of researchers has found. Besides economic and ... > full story
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