A team of scientists reporting in the Journal of Proteome Research has cracked the secret of the black Périgord truffle’s unique, pungent aroma. The black Périgord truffle, Tuber melanosporum. Named …
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An interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists and material scientists from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Argentina, has invented a ‘porous liquid’ and found that it can dissolve large amounts …
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Using a novel approach called syn-BNP (synthetic-bioinformatic natural product) approach, scientists from the Rockefeller and Rutgers Universities have discovered two promising new antibiotics active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a …
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A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has synthesized and accurately characterized cesium platinide hydride (4Cs2Pt*CsH), the first intermetallic double salt with platinum. Crystals of …
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A team of researchers in Germany has analyzed a set of stinky and fruity chemical ingredients and found that the overall odor of durian pulp could be mimicked by only …
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An international team of researchers has successfully synthesized a thermodynamically stable compound of sodium and the noble gas helium, Na2He, which has a fluorite-type structure and is stable at high …
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A team of chemists from the University of California, Irvine, and Los Alamos National Laboratory has created a new oxidation state, Pu+2, of the transuranic element plutonium. A paper reporting …
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A team of chemists at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has designed and synthesized a new class of molecules: quasi[1]catenanes. …
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Newly discovered handwritten notes show for the first time the Venetian physician Santorio Santorio (1561–1636), who invented the thermometer and helped lay the foundations for modern medical treatment, also played …
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After being hidden for centuries, the secrets within medieval manuscripts might soon come to light. By fusing two imaging techniques—visible hyperspectral imaging and x-ray fluorescence—an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University …
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