Science research news - extracts for your class – Page 11
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X-raying a DVD
Little is known about the detailed structural changes that take place when data are stored and retrieved
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Nanotechnology saves bridges
Inexpensive nanosensors might one day be incorporated into buildings, bridges, and other structures
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Chemistry goes tubular
Chemists in Germany use carbon nanotubes to activate butane, and thus make useful precursor molecules for pharma industry, without the need for expensive catalysts
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Discharged chemical cocktail
Researchers in Portugal use atomic absorption spectroscopy to identify the chemical cocktail of gases released when used alkaline batteries are incinerated
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Communicating with logical chemistry
Italian chemists build a simple glowing molecule that promises to speed up data transmission
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Converting sunshine into petrol
Research done at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, hints at a new way to make petrol using nothing more than sunshine and thin air