For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction. This was done at the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud ...
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A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside brain neurons. The recent discovery of ...
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Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces ...
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Ashland's consumer research within the men's grooming market suggests that more than ever, men desire a comprehensive regimen to maintain a healthy look and great hygiene but few want to add the extra time it often takes to look and feel ...
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Scientists are reporting the development of a novel metal ink made of small sheets of copper that can be used to write a functioning, flexible electric circuit on regular printer paper. Their report on the conductive ink, which could pave ...
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New advanced materials like MOFs (metal organic frameworks), advanced high-strength steel, and carbon nanotubes have the potential to enable novel products and disrupt existing businesses. However, material commercialization timelines are ...
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One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
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Qatar Petroleum(QP)and Qatar Petrochemical Company(QAPCO)have revealed the logo of the Al Sejeel Petrochemical Complex,bearing the colors of the Qatari flag,and also announced the award of the project's Front-End Engineering and ...
Borouge, a global provider of innovative plastic solutions is very upbeat on the Indian market, and expects a significant part of its global manufacturing capacity under-expansion to cater to the Indian market. In 2014 Borouge is ...
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US-based food-grade recycled PET or rPET producer CarbonLite has installed Buhler's SORTEX Sorting Technology to increase its output quality to near-perfect purity. Bühler's technology has the ability to conduct simultaneous, ...
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Global resin supplier AOC, LLC collaborated with Clean Water Works Inc. (CWW), an Ottawa based leader in pipeline rehabilitation, to restore the sewage pipes serving an automobile factory in Windsor, Ontario. Using polyester felt tubing ...
Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer to study polymers at the Delft University of Technology. Dr. Theo Dingemans is the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ...
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When a rubber ball and a droplet of water are compressed onto a solid surface, they behave very differently. For the ball, the compression process is reversible, so the ball retains its original form when decompressed. In contrast, the ...
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The importance of plastic in our everyday life is self evident by the fact that we are surrounded by plastic products all around. Everything starting from a pen, food packet, chair, bottles, containers, etc. is made up of plastic. The ...
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Fashion and technology will once again come together at the forthcoming UK's first-ever Wearable Technology Conference and Expo in London. Slated to be held from March 18 to 19, 2014, the event aims to focus on the growing acceptance of ...
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