Creating switchable plasmons in plastics
Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonicsCredit: Illustration: Conceptualized Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory ...
Month: December 2019
NASA examines Tropical Cyclone Belna’s water vapor concentration
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the ...
Secret behind diabetes drug’s benefits revealed
Metformin shows benefits on aging and a number of diverse diseasesCredit: Photo courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, ON (December 9, 2019) ...
Detours may make batteries better
Rice University scientists show point defects in cathode crystals may speed lithium absorptionCredit: Kaiqi Yang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 9, ...
Scientists show thin metal mesh loaded with T cells shrinks solid tumors
Within weeks, CAR T cells targeting ovarian cancer cleared tumors in 70% of treated mice, shows study in Nature Biomedical ...
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
'Game-changing' idea: Don't burn hydrocarbons, split them into hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materialsCredit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON ...
Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes
Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are ...
Medicaid expansion doubled access to primary care, increased attention to health risks
Less reliance on emergency care, more discussions about healthy behaviors and use of preventive care seen in survey of low-income ...
SwRI wins two R&D 100 Awards
Superhydrophobic coating, direction-finding antenna honored for innovationCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 9, 2019 -- Two Southwest Research ...
Predicting a protein’s behavior from its appearance
Credit: Laura Persat / 2019 EPFL Proteins are the building blocks of life and play a key role in all ...
Award to create clinical solution for life-threatening preemie condition
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National ...
Biomarker may aid in determining treatment for cancer patients
UC Medical student finds the presence of a common virus may help tailor options for glioblastoma patientsCredit: Colleen Kelley/UC Creative ...
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
Credit: @tsarcyanide, MIPT Press Office Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy ...
A tech jewel: Converting graphene into diamond film
Synthesis of the thinnest possible diamond-like material starting from bilayer graphene and without high pressureCredit: IBS Can two layers of ...
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out the origins of planetsCredit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser and Felix Jungmann Scientists may ...
Metal-organic sponge can convert CO2 into fuel
Associate Prof. Nina Lock from the Department of Engineering has received a grant of DKK 4.3 million (EUR 0.6 mill.) ...
Breakthrough made in detecting carbon impurities in gallium nitride crystals via light
Credit: Kazunobu Kojima Carbon impurity has long hindered efficiency in nitride-based electronic and optical devices. But Researchers at Tohoku University, ...
Cross of the Order of Merit for Britta Nestler
KIT scientist receives Cross of the Order of Merit in a ceremony on the occasion of the Day of German ...
Green hydrogen: Research to enhance efficiency
HZDR experiment comes up with important steps towards optimizing water electrolysisCredit: HZDR / Stephan Floss Laboratory experiments and a parabolic ...
Demonstration of high-speed SOT-MRAM memory cell compatible with 300mm Si CMOS technology
Credit: CIES, Tohoku University Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the demonstration of high-speed spin-orbit-torque (SOT) magnetoresistive random access memory ...
