Chemistry

The world's smallest reaction chamber has a mixing volume that can be measured in femtoliters - that's a million billionths of a liter. The reaction chamber actually consists of nothing more than a…

Chemists have been using the SPring-8 synchrotron at the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute to get a detailed look at enzymes that could help power the green economy.  One option for…

The wetting model is a classical problem in surface and biomimetic science.  Wettability is determined by the balance between adhesive and cohesive forces, adhesive which is when a liquid…

Researchers have unveiled a new way to use sunlight to produce steam and other vapors without heating an entire container of fluid to the boiling point. The research could lead to inexpensive,…

The Price Revolution in Europe, the runaway inflation that occurred during the years between 1515 to 1650, has been attributed to the sudden influx of silver from Mexico and Peru after discovery of…

The yeast used to make beer has yielded what may be the first gene for beer foam, CFG1, scientists are reporting in a new study. The discovery opens the door to new possibilities for improving the…

When temperatures get low, close to absolute zero, some chemical reactions still occur at a much higher rate than classical chemistry says they should – in that extreme chill, quantum effects enter…

Figure 1 : Schematic illustrating key steps involved in colorimetric measurements using a smartphone [1]. Computers are an indispensable part of laboratories. However, arrival of powerful mobile…

If you, like me, are possessed with that gene that makes people eat the whole bag of chips (don't laugh - somewhere in that 100,000 words of ENCODE public relations blitzing, I saw it), there is good…

During London Olympics 2012, Google Knowledge Graph (Ref. 1)  proved to be very useful in knowing about various aspects of the games like player statistics, medal tally of countries, etc.…