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Science & Tech News tagged with Chemical

'Life Chemical' Detected in Comet
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Scientists, Discovery, Comet, Chemical, Building Block, Amino Acid, Life, Organisms, Molecules, Comet Wild-2, 2004, Stardust Probe )

Rosemary
- 102 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, the US space agency (Nasa) reports. Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins, the sophisticated molecules that organisms use > Cont.
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'Life Chemical' Detected in Comet
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, comet, chemical, life, glycine, amino acids )

Sharon
- 102 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, (Nasa) reports.Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins,the sophisticated molecules that organisms use to build & maintain their systems.
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Compound Could Help Detect Chemical, Biological Weapons At Long Distances
Science & Tech  (tags: Detection, biological, chemical, weapons, discovery, research, science )

Ingrid
- 427 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and in sensors to detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine.
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Growth Hormone Found to Have New Role in Development of Brain's Smell Center
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, research, study, discovery, humans, axon, brain, cell, chemical, chemoattractant, hormone, molecules, nerve, neurones, odour, olfactory, receptor )

J.
- 611 days ago - berkeley.edu
A Neuroscientist and his colleagues have now found that the hormone, insulin-like growth factor (IGF) plays a critical role in setting up the connections between chemical detectors in the nose and the brain's olfactory centers.
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Chemical Engineers Have Discovered a New Way to Control the Motion of Fluid Particles
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, study, discovery, biological, chemical, dynamics, fluid, motion, particle, thermodynamics )

J.
- 620 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The new discovery could potentially aid in the development of micro- and nano-scale technologies such as drug delivery devices, chemical and biological sensors, and components for miniaturized biological 'lab-on-a-chip' applications.
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A Really Bright Idea: A Chemical That Converts Thoughts Into Light | The Daily Galaxy: News From Planet Earth & Beyond
Science & Tech  (tags: bright, idea, light, thought, chemical, conversion, research, university )

Jean
- 663 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
The cartoon convention of a bright light appearing above your head when you have an idea might not be fiction for long. Researchers at Kinki University, who we would have thought would have been too busy developing new kinds of latex and electrical devic
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Study Finds That People Are Programmed to Love Chocolate
Science & Tech  (tags: chocolate, humans, chemical, metabolism, lab tests )

Eduardo
- 778 days ago - huliq.com
For the first time, scientists have linked the all-too-human preference for a food -- chocolate -- to a specific, chemical signature that may be programmed into the metabolic system and is detectable by laboratory tests.
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