News articles tagged with 'cyanide'
Designer molecule detects tiny amounts of cyanide, then glows
— 22 Oct 2009 15:00 | HealthA small molecule designed to detect cyanide in water samples works quickly, is easy to use, and glows under ultraviolet or 'black' light. Although the fluorescent molecule is not yet... — full story
Hot and cold moves of cyanide and water
— 3 Sep 2009 13:45 | ChemistryScientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small,... — full story
New crops needed for new climate
— 29 Jun 2009 11:41 | EnvironmentGlobal food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase... — full story
Gene may 'bypass' disease-linked mitochondrial defects, fly study suggests
— 6 May 2009 18:10 | BiologyBy lending them a gene normally reserved for other classes of animals, researchers have shown they can rescue flies from their Parkinson's-like symptoms, including movement defects... — full story
Cool stars have different mix of life-forming chemicals
— 8 Apr 2009 12:55 | AstronomyLife on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints... — full story
Thousands threatened by unregulated fishery
— 24 Feb 2009 14:02 | EnvironmentAfter 40 years of unregulated cyanide and dynamite fishing thousands of people in the western Philippines are in danger of losing their livelihoods... — full story
Minute insect develops long-term memory
— 13 Jan 2009 16:12 | BiologyIf a specific butterfly anti-sex scent is coupled with a pleasant experience, then parasitic wasps are able to develop long-term memory and respond to this scent that they do not instinctively... — full story
Gold without poison
— 26 Feb 2008 16:51 | ChemistryResearchers from the Krasnoyarsk State University together with their colleagues from the Institute of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,... — full story
How did chemical constituents essential to life arise on primitive Earth?
— 30 Oct 2007 19:38 | Geology and palaeontologyExperiments show that simple molecules can combine chemically rather than biologically to form the building blocks of DNA, the key component of all life forms. These processes might... — full story
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