These have provided insight into the roles that marine bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microbes have as global primary producers that provide nutrition at the base of the food chain; remineralization (the transformation of
organic molecules into inorganic forms); and the deposition of carbon on the sea floor.
Lately the mission has also gained a tantalizing target: plumes of water vapor that seem to erupt through the moon's icy crust, presumably sweeping
any organic molecules into space, where they might be detectable.
According to a prediction published last year by American researchers, capillary forces could suck neon and
some organic molecules into buckytubes.
Not exact matches
Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science as it progresses is gradually uncovering a sort of
organic unity within the universe in which atoms become
molecules,
molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve
into more complex life forms, and so on.
Matter does not control or direct itself, yet science describes a sort of
organic unity within the universe in which atoms become
molecules,
molecules link to form chemicals that form proteins, these link to form DNA, simple life forms evolve
into more complex life forms, etc..
For all entities, elementary particles, atoms,
molecules, and so on, are
organic unities, each integrating
into itself
organic unities smaller in size with the differences in size being unproblematical between each level, above or below.11
Spontaneous self - organization is invoked by biochemists in the evolution of the prebiotic world in which a variety of atoms assembled
into organic molecules eventually giving rise to
molecules of RNA, DNA and proteins which led to further complex assemblies and eventually to cells.
The research team incorporated fluorine
into an adsorbent, enabling it to separate charged
organic molecules up to 8 times faster than neutral
molecules.
The Methods: Photochemical modeling by a Caltech team indicates that ethane, a hydrocarbon detected on Titan by both of the Voyager spacecraft and the European Infrared Space Observatory, is created when solar ultraviolet light breaks down methane, a minor component of Titan's nitrogen - rich atmosphere,
into a stew of
organic molecules that form a dense orange - brown smog.
Deep Impact Original Mission: The $ 333 million probe, launched in 2005 to shoot a copper slug
into the heart of comet Tempel 1, revealed
organic molecules and water ice.
Their mycelia exude enzymes and acids that turn rock
into biologically accessible minerals and unravel the long - chain
molecules of
organic matter
into digestible form.
In the process of arranging themselves around the central hub, the metal ions folded the
organic molecules over one another, braiding them
into a woven star shape.
If it can be developed
into a successful technology, the new material might help remove from the water supply small
organic molecules such as Bisphenol A (BPA), a byproduct of some plastic manufacturing that has been linked to environmental damage and health risks.
One ERS program will stare
into the hearts of neighboring nascent star systems to watch ices,
organic molecules and other planetary building blocks dance around coalescing suns.
Modern heterotrophic bacteria, he says, break
organic matter down
into molecules that are rich in carbon - 13.
He searches for
organics in dinosaur fossils by using heat to break down
molecules into volatile components and running them through a mass spectrometer.
The Grignard reaction is a classic reaction in
organic chemistry, useful for building the carbon skeleton of
molecules by transforming carbon - halogen bonds
into carbon - carbon bonds.
The roadmap outlines future research directions toward the goal of enhancing human radioresistance, including upregulation of endogenous repair and radioprotective mechanisms, possible leeways
into gene therapy in order to enhance radioresistance via the translation of exogenous and engineered DNA repair and radioprotective mechanisms, the substitution of
organic molecules with fortified isoforms, the coordination of regenerative and ablative technologies, and methods of slowing metabolic activity while preserving cognitive function.
Instead of using free - floating nutrients in the water, Repeta says, DeLong's study showed that the microbes must somehow be able to crack
into nitrogen and phosphorus hidden deep inside
organic molecules.
The craft is designed to dig
into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and
organic compounds, the carbon - rich
molecules that make life on Earth possible.
But they store only about 1 % of the energy they soak up, locking it
into the sugars and other
organic molecules they use to build their cells.
Those reactions weave the simple atoms of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen
into complex
organic molecules.
In this phenomenon, water
molecules and oxygen in the atmosphere create strong oxidants which degrade
organic compounds
into water and carbon dioxide.
The pools swelled when rain fell, but when they evaporated, the
organic molecules in them became more concentrated, forming films like cell membranes, or joining
into longer chains like strands of RNA.
Chemists often use nucleophilic additions in
organic synthesis to turn
molecules with double bonds
into more functionalised compounds.
Mostly it refers to organohalogens — compounds like DDT that incorporate halogens such as chlorine or bromine
into organic molecules — that are naturally nearly nonexistent in mammals.
When phytoplankton use carbon dioxide to make new cells, a substantial portion of that cellular material is released
into the sea as a buffet of edible
molecules collectively called «dissolved
organic carbon.»
Food gives us nutrients like nitrogen as parts of complex
organic molecules, but our digestive system strips them down
into the basic mineral form that plants need — so «we have done half of the job,» Jönsson says.
A serendipitous detection of the
organic molecule methanol around an intriguing moon of Saturn suggests that material spewed from Enceladus undertakes a complex chemical journey once vented
into space.
For example, the light can destroy relatively large
organic or carbon - centric
molecules, chopping them
into smaller pieces.
When the methane is irradiated it is churned
into ethane and other more complex
organics (the
molecule loses a hydrogen bond and more carbon atoms become chained together).
The five - year, $ 750,000 grant will support Collins and his team of graduate and undergraduate students in their research developing and testing new resonant X-ray scattering techniques that reveal how
organic, carbon - based
molecules assemble, orient and conform
into nanostructures.
These observations may provide insights
into the formation of similarly complex
organic molecules early in the history of the universe.
Webb will enable mapping of
organic molecules — called hydrocarbons — across the disks of Uranus and Neptune for the first time, providing insight
into the thermodynamics, chemistry, and circulation within these two atmospheres.
«These ALMA observations give us new insights
into how
organic molecules, the building blocks of life, form and evolve in a planet - like environment,» said Anthony Remijan, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., and coauthor on the paper.
One approach to shrinking complex electronic circuits envisions joining DNA -
organic molecule - DNA (DOD) building blocks
into arrays.
When an icy impact occurred, the impactor's kinetic energy became heat energy, instantly melted some ice, gouged out a crater, and kicked up
into Mars» thin atmosphere large amounts of debris mixed with water (liquid, ice crystals, and vapor)-- and complex
organic molecules that obviously came recently from life.127 Then, the dirt and salt - water mixture settled back to the surface in vast layers of thin sheets — strata — especially around the crater.
IntraCELL V technology adds
organic carbon to the trace minerals and breaks it down
into new smaller re-structured
molecules allowing them to be carried
into the cell for maximum absorption.
This is capable by surrounding a
molecule with
organic carbon, then breaking it down
into new polymerized, ultra-chelated, re-structured
molecules.
Invented by Yaghi, COFs and MOFs consist of
molecules (
organics for COFs and metal -
organics for MOFs) that are stitched
into large and extended netlike frameworks whose structures are held together by strong chemical bonds.
There was one WUWT thread which discussed the
organic molecules plankton puts
into the air, and how they can reach the upper atmosphere, and, (because they included elements ending in «ine,» such as Bromine, Fluorine, Chlorine, and Iodine,) alter the amount of Ozone, which in turn effected the types and powers of sunlight.