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Chemistry World December 18, 2006 Philip Ball |
Ice Crystals Trapped Inside Nanotubes At this time of year there are reminders everywhere of the beautiful structures that water can form when it freezes. But the ice crystals predicted in computer simulations by Xiao Cheng Zeng and colleagues are as striking as any snowflake. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist. |
Reactive Reports Issue 72 David Bradley |
Ice Age the Movie The ordered structure of ice dissolves little by little into disorder when a tiny burst of light hits an ice crystal. |
Chemistry World June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Cooking up Nano-Fusilli Here's a new twist on nanotubes: chemists have found a set of organic molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a helical spiral with a hollow core. |
Chemistry World June 14, 2013 Philip Ball |
Protons wander freely in icy gas giant cores If you squeeze ice hard enough, its protons fall off. That's the conclusion of a new study by Malcolm Guthrie of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and colleagues. |
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation. |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 |
Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool. |
Popular Mechanics May 7, 2009 Mark Anderson |
When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event," so named for the Tunguska river in Siberia. |
Chemistry World February 10, 2011 Laura Howes |
Space ice goes against the grain Space ice made from a mixture of methanol and water expands under pressure, and shrinks when heated - the opposite behaviour to most solids. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Wired December 2004 Frank Drake |
The E.T. Equation, Recalculated Fifty years ago, those of us who dreamed about finding extraterrestrials thought we knew where to look: planets with temperatures somewhere between the freezing and boiling points of water. |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 |
Nano Test Tubes Fabricated Researchers have found a way to make minuscule test tubes from carbon and silica nanotubes. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Slushball Life Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carapace of ice may have periodically covered the entire planet. New research, however, indicates that microbes seem to have thrived in certain places that they should not have during that time, leading scientists to conclude that the snowball was more slushy than frozen solid. |
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler |
Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter. |
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system... |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Philip Ball |
Ice core to antifreeze protein's inner workings The antifreeze protein that protects the winter flounder from sub-zero temperatures has been found to have an odd structure. |
Wired April 2000 Oliver Morton |
Ice Station Vostok The fast track to the moons of Jupiter - and the key to life on Earth - is a prehistoric lake nearly three miles beneath the Antarctic ice cap. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Ammonia freezes up under pressure Researchers in France have shown that when molecular ammonia is put under enormous pressure, it becomes unstable and then forms a solid ionic ice. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models. |
Chemistry World June 30, 2015 Jessie-May Morgan |
Space-like conditions give rise to metabolic precursors Mimicking interstellar conditions, a team of scientists at NASA has synthesized complex organic molecules thought to be necessary for the origin of life. |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Jon Evans |
World's smallest ice cube created Ice crystals must contain at least 275 water molecules, say German chemists. This size limit has implications for any process that involves ice particles, from cloud formation to making the perfect gin and tonic. |
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans |
Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material. |
Popular Mechanics April 1, 2008 Chris Ladd |
Nano Tanks Could Store Hydrogen in Microscopic 'Soccer Balls' While hydrogen gas and fuel cells remain far-off realities for solving the fuel crunch, new computer models of interlocked carbon chambers have proven to store hydrogen at similar pressures to the cores of huge planets. |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 |
Take the Volcanic Fast-track to Nanotube Production Igneous rock from the Mount Etna volcanic eruptions could be used to mass produce carbon nanotubes, according to researchers. |
Chemistry World March 27, 2015 James Urquhart |
Graphene sandwich turns water square Sandwiching water between two sheets of graphene leads to it freezing at room temperature to form two-dimensional square ice crystals, a hitherto unknown phase of ice. |
Chemistry World December 15, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Fast skating forces ice to feel the heat A scientist in Germany has now calculated why sliding across ice is so unpredictable and that your speed determines how slippery the ice will be. |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale. |
Chemistry World April 19, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Lead-lined clouds Lead in the atmosphere has a direct effect on how clouds form, according to research by an international team of scientists. |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes. |
Chemistry World March 10, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Making pentagonal ice An international group of researchers have discovered that pentagonal structures of ice can be formed on copper surfaces consisting of Cu (110) substrates. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Column: The crucible Not all snowflakes are six-pointed. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Ice Hunter: Q&A With Lonnie Thompson An interview with glaciologist and Byrd Polar Research Center scientist Lonnie Thompson about what it mean to hunt ice and about some his current work. |
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Lava Cooks up Carbon Nanotubes Mount Etna may be a fiery factory for one of the most sought-after tools of nanotechnology: tiny carbon nanotubes. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
A year of global ice observations Scientists are now getting the most accurate view ever of changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The new maps, using NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite, are shedding light on the processes controlling these ice masses, which comprise 75 percent of Earth's freshwater. |
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone? |
Chemistry World April 28, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Frosty asteroid surprises astronomers Water and organic molecules on Earth could have been brought here by impacting asteroids and comets, say two groups of US astronomers. |
Geotimes February 2007 Sally Adee |
Escape From Snowball Earth Early Earth didn't do things half-way: It may or may not have ever been a solidly frozen "snowball" in the deep geological past, but it was never a half-frozen ball of slush, according to a new study. |
Popular Mechanics June 3, 2008 Kevin Hall |
Phoenix Lander May Have Found Ice on Mars. So What? Samples of ice could contain details of potential clues as to whether or not the planet could have supported life. |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions. |
Scientific American November 7, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Red Star Rising Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life |
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb |
Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Sapphire Steps Shape Nanotubes Arrays Researchers have found that it is possible to grow carbon nanotubes along atom-size steps on a sapphire surface. |
Popular Mechanics July 30, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Mission 'Definitely' Finds Water Ice on Mars: Update The Phoenix mission will be extended, but team leaders aren't sure how long the lander will last, so they're gathering as much information and evidence on Mars as possible. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 |
Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 |
Nanotubes smash length record Duke University researchers produced nanotubes as long as two millimeters, which is 100 times longer than previous efforts. Nanotubes have great potential as components of nanomachines and nanoelectronics. |
Science News November 27, 2004 |
From the November 24, 1934, Issue Nobel Chemistry Award for Discovery of Deuterium... Mysterious "Great Red Spot" of Jupiter is Explained... Polar Ice Cap Shivering in Perpetual Vibration... |
Chemistry World July 15, 2013 Eleanor Merritt |
A chemical approach to biological antifreeze Scientists in New Zealand and the US have synthesized a protein that helps inhibit ice crystal growth in Antarctic fish. |
Geotimes June 2004 Sara Pratt |
Why the Wobble? A new study says that the shifting of masses of water and ice around the globe's surface primarily drives the seasonal wobbleon its axis. The finding could lead to new ways to monitor global change. |