All articles by Nina Notman – Page 8
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Monitoring asthma with mobile phones
A mobile phone-based sensor can be used in measure nitric oxide in breath, a indicator for airway inflammation
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Cash lures top achievers away from US science
Science is losing more of the cream of the academic crop to high-paying careers in other sectors
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Boxing clever
Food scientists are developing increasingly sophisticated packaging materials to extend shelf life of many foods. Nina Notman looks at the delicacies on offer
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Photographing flexible electronics
Photography has provided the inspiration for a fast, room temperature route to produce flexible electronic components
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Designing 3D DNA crystals
DNA triangles have been designed that self-assemble into three-dimensional, macro-sized crystals
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Nanoparticle breath test for lung cancer
A gold nanoparticle sensor can quickly and easily distinguish between the breath of lung cancer patients and healthy individuals
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Molecules in close-up
A tuning-fork-like device that measures atomic forces can image every single atom in a molecule, according to its Swiss inventors
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Cell-sized vesicle assembly line
Scientists have created a production line that pumps out microspheres that are all the same size and surrounded by a single lipid bilayer
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Writing channels into a porous matrix
Researchers have used a laser to write a hydrophilic pathway into a 3D hydrophobic matrix
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Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules
Liquid crystal phase molecules without 'handedness' form chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains
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Nanocrystal growth process revealed
US scientists have shed light on how nanocrystals grow, providing information that could help improve fuel cells of the future
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UK's first CCS pilot plant switched on
The first UK pilot of carbon capture technology on a working coal-fired power plant has started up in Scotland
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The natural approach to winning at drug discovery
How to bias high throughput screening libraries
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New probe promises ozone answers
A highly selective new probe should help address controversial claims that cells make ozone
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Wine's chemical memory
Even 10 years after bottling, wine still holds a chemical imprint of the forest from which the wooden barrel it was aged in came
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Toxic mushroom molecule discovered
A simple compound has been found to be the toxic culprit in a highly poisonous Asian mushroom
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New EU members missing out on research funding
SMEs and new EU member states under-represented in EU's seventh framework programme, says report
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Polymers feel the force
A force-sensitive chemical moiety embedded in a polymer chain triggers a colour change when put under pressure
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Organic compound comes to the aid of thirsty plants
A synthetic mimic of a plant hormone assists scientists looking to help plants survive droughts
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The lifetime of lipid membranes has been extended from mere hours to three weeks thanks to work by US scientists