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December 2009

01.52:      Nanoscience brings artworks back to life

04.30:      Monitoring asthma with mobile phones

07.00:      Mike Barlow on spectroscopy opening windows on the universe

14.03:      Acid solution for nanotube fibres

16.09:      New evidence for toxic effects of inhaled nanotubes

19.02:      Sigurd Hofmann on the discovery of element 112

25.28:      DNA stretching mystery solved

29.10:      New catalyst converts CO2 to useful molecules

32.00:      The chemical conundrum - what analytical technique is being used by scientists to prove the existence of water on the moon?


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Art conservation

Nanoscience brings artworks back to life

22 October 2009

Micro-emulsion gels selectively remove aged polymer coatings from the surface of valuable works of art


Mobile phone

Monitoring asthma with mobile phones

06 November 2009

A mobile phone-based sensor can be used in measure nitric oxide in breath, a indicator for airway inflammation


Space spectroscopy

Reading between the lines

We will surely never solve all the mysteries of the universe. But, as Jon Cartwright reports, spectroscopy holds the key to unravelling many planetary secrets


Nanotube fibres

Acid solution for nanotube fibres

01 November 2009

Carbon nanotubes can be dissolved in chlorosulfonic acid for easy processing


Nanotubes

New evidence for toxic effects of inhaled nanotubes

25 October 2009

Carbon nanotubes found to accumulate in the same region of the lungs as asbestos in mice


DNA

DNA stretching mystery solved

19 October 2009

A long-standing debate about the structural transition that DNA undergoes when it is stretched seems to have been resolved


Cyclic carbonates from waste CO2

New catalyst converts waste CO2 to useful molecules

09 October 2009

UK scientists develop super-efficient catalyst to convert waste CO2 from power stations into useful cyclic carbonates


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