News articles tagged with 'sulphate'
New marker found for Sanfilippo disease
— 1 Mar 2011 18:30 | HealthSanfilippo disease is a rare disorder caused by the failure of enzymes to break down specific kinds of complex carbohydrates, resulting in their accumulation in cells and often severe…
Blood-clotting agent can diagnose fatal genetic diseases, finds study
— 3 Feb 2011 17:36 | HealthUniversity of Manchester scientists have shown that a protein involved in blood clotting can be used to diagnose and subsequently monitor the treatment of a group of childhood genetic…
What impact would sun dimming have on Earth's weather?
— 25 Jan 2011 19:08 | EnvironmentSolar radiation management projects, also known as sun dimming, seek to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth to counteract the effects of climate change. Global dimming can…
Oxygen-free early oceans likely delayed rise of life on planet
— 11 Jan 2011 16:32 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and, surprisingly,…
Value-added sulphur scrubbing
— 22 Oct 2010 15:25 | EnvironmentPower plants that burn fossil fuels remain the main source of electricity generation across the globe. Modern power plants have scrubbers to remove sulphur compounds from their flue…
Watching electrons move in real time
— 22 Sep 2010 09:13 | PhysicsAt its most basic level, understanding chemistry means understanding what electrons are doing. Research published in The Journal of Chemical Physics not only maps the movement of electrons…
Optimising climate change reduction
— 17 Sep 2010 09:53 | EnvironmentScientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have taken a new approach on examining a proposal to fix the warming planet. So-called geoengineering ideas - large-scale…
U of C scientist offers better ways to engineer Earth's climate to prevent dangerous global warming
— 8 Sep 2010 11:12 | EnvironmentThere may be better ways to engineer the planet's climate to prevent dangerous global warming than mimicking volcanoes, a University of Calgary climate scientist says in two new studies…
Geologists revisit the Great Oxygenation Event
— 20 Aug 2010 10:27 | Geology and palaeontologyIn 'The Sign of the Four' Sherlock Holmes tells Watson he has written a monograph on 140 forms of cigar-, cigarette-, and pipe-tobacco, 'with coloured plates illustrating the difference…
Study finds black carbon implicated in global warming
— 30 Jul 2010 10:22 | EnvironmentIncreasing the ratio of black carbon to sulphate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a study conducted by a University of Iowa professor and his colleagues and published…