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Chemistry World
December 8, 2008
Manisha Lalloo |
Trace molybdenum limits forest growth Scientists have discovered that a trace metal is the limiting factor restricting nitrogen uptake in tropical rainforests.   |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Meteorites hitting oceans may have kick-started life Japanese scientists have done laboratory experiments to test the idea. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Janet Raloff |
Book Review: Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest To End Famine By Gary Paul Nabhan Born in 1887, Nikolay Vavilov is known for creating the world's first major seed bank. |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Drug detonates nitric oxide inside tuberculosis bacteria US and Singaporean scientists have discovered how a promising anti-tuberculosis drug, PA-824, triggers an explosive chain of events inside its target bacterial cells. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Spy moths controlled by chemicals Insects could one day fly undercover missions for the US military, under the control of chemical-releasing microfluidic implants, US researchers say. |
Science News
Janet Raloff |
Marine Pollution Spawns 'wonky Babies' Wonky? It's British slang for shaky, unreliable or unattractive. In Ceri Lewis's lexicon, it refers to the odd, off-kilter embryonic development that can occur. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2008
James Urquhart |
Virus revealed by flipping lipid A drug that flags up virus-infected cells for destruction by the body's own immune system could lead to new, broad-spectrum anti-viral treatments, say US scientists. |
Wired
November 24, 2008
Erin Biba |
Rocket Scientist's Laser Scalpel Targets Individual Cells Researcher Adela Ben-Yakar is developing a laser capable of vaporizing individual cells, one at a time. |
Chemistry World
Richard Van Noorden |
Interview: Douglas Kell As former director of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Douglas Kell is used to finding connections between huge reams of complex data by collaborating with scientists from chemistry through to computing. |
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