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Study Fuels Insight Into Conversion of Wood to Bio-Oil
December 14, 2012 — New research provides molecular-level insights into how cellulose -- the most common organic compound on Earth and the main structural component of plant cell walls -- breaks down in wood to create ... > full story -
Passing the Alcohol Test: Fundamental Properties of Molecules Have Not Changed During the Past Seven Billion Years
December 14, 2012 — The mass ratio of protons and electrons is deemed to be a universal constant. And rightly so, as the latest radio-astronomy observations of a distant galaxy have shown. Scientists used the 100-metre ... > full story -
Light Used to Remotely Trigger Biochemical Reactions
December 13, 2012 — Since Edison's first bulb, heat has been a mostly undesirable byproduct of light. Now researchers are turning light into heat at the point of need, on the nanoscale, to trigger biochemical reactions ... > full story -
Study Reveals a Remarkable Symmetry in Black Hole Jets
December 13, 2012 — Black holes range from modest objects formed when individual stars end their lives to behemoths billions of times more massive that rule the centers of galaxies. A new study using data from NASA's ... > full story -
Researchers Re-Establish the Structure of Magnesium Borohydride
December 13, 2012 — An international team of researchers has established the structure of one of the most important high-energy-density materials, magnesium ... > 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 -
Seven Primitive Galaxies at the Dawn of Time
December 12, 2012 — Astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 3 percent of its present age. The ... > full story -
X-Ray Laser Takes Aim at Cosmic Mystery
December 12, 2012 — Scientists have used powerful X-rays to study and measure, in atomic detail, a key process at work in extreme plasmas like those found in stars, the rims of black holes and other massive cosmic ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover 'Missing Link' of Black Holes
December 12, 2012 — The discovery of a binging black hole in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies, according to a new ... > 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
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