Scientists find out which of the metazoans has the smallest known genome
Researchers at St Petersburg University have deciphered the Intoshia variabili gene, the smallest representative of the parasite from the Orthonectida ...
Month: May 2020
Researchers develop material capable of being invisible or reflective
Researchers develop material capable of being invisible or reflective in IR spectrumCredit: ITMO.News (news.itmo.ru) Modern optical devices require constant tuning ...
Carl Linnaeus’s household laid the foundation for his scientific work
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist ...
Team of Canadian and Italian researchers breaking new ground in materials science
Discovery could greatly increase performances of electronicsCredit: McGill-INRS-Lakehead A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently ...
Fire aerosols decrease global terrestrial ecosystem productivity through changing climate
Credit: Zhihua Liu Fire is the primary form of terrestrial ecosystem disturbance on a global scale, and a major source ...
A new understanding of everyday cellular processes
Credit: University of Warwick We use cells to breathe, to moderate body temperature, to grow and many other every day ...
Molecule-plasmon coupling strength tunes surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectral lineshapes
Credit: ©Science China Press Plasmon-enhanced molecular spectroscopies have attracted tremendous attention as powerful detection tools with ultrahigh sensitivity down to ...
Construction of hollow nanoreactors for enhanced photo-oxidations
Credit: ©Science China Press Oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids is of importance in both organic chemistry and chemical ...
Breakthrough in research on production of 2D crystals with excellent optical properties
Credit: Source: UW Physics, A. Bogucki, W. Pacuski For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical ...
Hierarchical self-assembly of atomically precise nanoclusters
Credit: ©Science China Press Metal nanoclusters have been served as an emerging class of modular nanomaterials owing to their atomically ...
Quantum leap: Photon discovery is a major step toward at-scale quantum technologies
Credit: S Paesani A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has developed the first integrated photon source with ...
2D molecular crystals modulating electronic properties of organic semiconductors
Credit: ©Science China Press Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are the heart of plastic electronics. Doping has been proven to improve ...
‘Bee’ thankful for the evolution of pollen
MU researchers discover wildflower's spiny pollen adapts to help plants reproduceCredit: University of Missouri Have pollen. Must travel. Over 80% ...
Molybdenum telluride nanosheets enable selective electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide
Credit: ©Science China Press H2O2 is an important commodity chemical and potential energy carrier, and is widely used for various ...
4D electric circuit network with topology
Credit: ©Science China Press In recent years, topology has emerged as an important tool to classify and characterize properties of ...
NIH Fellowship to study role of virus in sudden cardiac death
Credit: Virginia Tech A dose of adenovirus hits most people like a common cold - a cough, a fever, maybe ...
Caves tell us that Australia’s mountains are still growing
Buchan Caves unlock technique for measuring uplift of mountainsCredit: John Engel Australia has often been unfairly portrayed as an old ...
Elucidating the mechanism of a light-driven sodium pump
Credit: Paul Scherer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in recording, ...
NIST team builds hybrid quantum system by entangling molecule with atom
Credit: Burrus/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have boosted their control of the fundamental properties ...
Intent defined optical network for intelligent operation and maintenance
Credit: ©Science China Press The automatic operation and maintenance of optical network is important for ensuring information communication and network ...
