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When the Europeans discovered the "New World", they infamously brought with them diseases which that world had never before encountered.

We have an oil problem on our hands, and it has nothing to do with renewable energy and carbon emissions.

The world's oceans contain nearly a thousand times as much uranium as conventional reserves, and researchers have spent decades trying to develop an efficient way to extract it.

Ancient ivory carvings made by Phoenician artists some 3,000 years ago have long hidden a secret, even while being openly displayed in museums around the world: The sculptures were originally painted with colorful pigments, and some were decorated with gold.

The preservation of food at home is a major concern for all consumers. A group of researchers from INRA in Avignon, France, have conducted a study into tomato aroma with the aim of finding the optimum conditions for storage.

When singer/songwriters Josh and Nicole Johnson got married, their married friends in Nashville gave them a piece of advice: One musician should entirely give up his or her career to support his or her partner, or the two should form a duo.

Construction work is underway for the new $80 million Science and Technology Center at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland which is designed by the architectural firm Cannon Design to provide access to cutting edge, high performance sciences and technology education.

These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are.

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy 's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis.

Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 : To keep students abreast of the latest trends and developments in computational chemistry, Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences is organising a four-day national workshop on the subject here.

We present results of prebiotic organic synthesis in shock compressed mixtures of simple ices from quantum molecular dynamics simulations extended to close to equilibrium time scales.

An international team of physicists at the radioactive-beam facility ISOLDE at CERN have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine*. The value for astatine, published in the journal Nature Communications, could help chemists to develop applications for the element in radiotherapy, and will serve ... (more)

Ultrathin Ag2Mo3O10A 2H2O nanowires were synthesized by soft chemistry under atmospheric pressure from a hybrid organic-inorganic polyoxometalate 2[Mo7O22] and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, DSC/TGA analyses, FT-IR and FT-Raman spectroscopies, scanning electron microscopy , and transmission electron microscopy .

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

Most people think of digging when they picture gold mining. That's part of it, but there's more to it than that.

Employees at McKee Lumber Co. in Corsicana, Texas , were discussing last month's deadly blast at a fertilizer plant 50 miles away one recent morning when talk turned to their neighbor: El Dorado Chemical Co .

As STEM-based products continue to saturate the toy market, parents may be unsure about which toys are best for enriching their kid's creativity and learning in the sciences.

Image Caption: Measurement Station SchmA1 4cke. HCCT 2010 - A ground-based integrated study of chemical-aerosol-cloud interactions at the SchmA1 4cke Mountain in the Thuringian Forest in September/October 2010.

Cells rely on garbage disposal systems to keep their interiors neat and tidy. If it weren't for these systems, cells could look like microscopic junkyards - and worse, they might not function properly.

Titan is probably one of the most interesting objects in the solar system. So why is Titan so cool? Titan really grabbed the attention of scientists after the Voyager spacecraft flew by it during the early 80s.