Aluminium Acetotartrate
Aluminium acetotartrate (or ALSOL) is an organic acid, astringent, and disinfectant. It is the aluminium salt of acetic acid and tartaric acid. It is a…
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Manganese Lactate – an organic chemical compound
Manganese lactate is an organic chemical compound, a salt of manganese and lactic acid with the formula Mn(C3H5O3)2. The compound forms light pink crystals, soluble…
Han Kang receives Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ facing human vulnerability
The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas…
Economics Nobel Prize 2024: Given for explaining why some countries are affluent while others are impoverished
Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and…
Nobel Award for Chemistry 2024 – for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions—…
Nobel Peace Prize 2024 – Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo for efforts to rid world of nuclear weapons
A Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group made up of survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan during World War II has won the 2024 Nobel Peace…
Singing Scholars Discover Cross-cultural Patterns in Music and Language
Recent research into the interaction of music and language across cultures has discovered some fascinating patterns that emphasize universal characteristics of human expression. These studies…
Behavior of Marine Plankton may Forecast Future Extinctions
Marine communities traveled to Antarctica during the Earth’s warmest phase in 66 million years, long before a major extinction occurred. During the Early Eocene Climatic…
200,000 Years Ago, Two Species Interbred to Generate a New Butterfly Species
Researchers discovered that the Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species created by two different species mated together about 200,000 years ago. The discovery, made by…
During the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone linked to the Rib Bones
A new reconstruction of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish Tiktaalik, a close relative of limbed vertebrates, utilizes micro-CT to uncover bones that remained trapped in matrix.…
According to a New Study, Mountain Chickadees have Exceptional Memories
Mountain chickadees have some of the strongest spatial memories in the animal kingdom. New research reveals the genes involved and sheds light on how a…
Solving the Puzzle of Early Medieval Money
Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia…
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