News articles tagged with 'liquid' (Page 2)
Clay-armoured bubbles may have formed first protocells
— 7 Feb 2011 15:07 | ChemistryA team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic…
Dynamic systems in living cells break the rules
— 26 Jan 2011 19:19 | BiologyThere is considerable interest in understanding transport and information pathways in living cells. It is crucial for both the transport of, for example, medicine into cells, the regulation…
How do you make lithium melt in the cold?
— 10 Jan 2011 18:51 | PhysicsSophisticated tools allow scientists to subject the basic elements of matter to conditions drastic enough to modify their behaviour. By doing this, they can expand our understanding…
A pesky bacterial slime reveals its survival secrets
— 8 Jan 2011 13:03 | HealthBy rethinking what happens on the surface of things, engineers at Harvard University have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a…
University of Toronto physicists create supernova in a jar
— 3 Dec 2010 17:56 | PhysicsA team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature…
Smashing fluids: The physics of flow
— 3 Dec 2010 17:44 | PhysicsThe new findings will be highly useful to the manufacturing industry because the processing and dispensing of everyday products like toothpaste, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs…
Dosing directions, measuring devices appear inconsistent for many children's liquid medications
— 1 Dec 2010 17:50 | HealthAn examination of 200 of the top-selling cough/cold, allergy, analgesic and gastrointestinal over-the-counter liquid medications for children finds that there have been high levels…
Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals
— 30 Nov 2010 21:59 | ChemistryGlass is something we all know about. It's what we sip our drinks from, what we look out of to see what the weather is like before going outside and it is the backbone to our high speed…
Chemistry for greenhouse gases
— 30 Nov 2010 21:57 | ChemistryIf fossil fuels burn completely, the end products are carbon dioxide and water. Today the carbon dioxide is a waste product, one that goes into the air - adding to global warming; or…
Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films
— 2 Nov 2010 16:09 | ChemistryOil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibres and all bets are off. A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a new method for coating large surfaces with nanofibre…