Researchers find unexpected electrical current that could stabilize fusion reactions
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that ...
Month: September 2020
Chemistry’s Feng Lin Lab is splitting water molecules for a renewable energy future
Credit: Virginia Tech The future economy based on renewable and sustainable energy sources might utilize battery-powered cars, large-scale solar and ...
Two top European grants for young researchers at Bielefeld University
ERC Starting Grants for Professor Dr Martina Hofmanová and Dr Toni GoßmannCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University /S. Jonek The European Research ...
Who is winning the infrastructure war?
A battle for economic and strategic advantageCredit: World Scientific Why does infrastructure matter? Anthony Rowley, a veteran economic commentator, argues ...
NASA satellite finds Haishen now a super typhoon
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Philippine Sea ...
New technology lets quantum bits hold information for 10,000 times longer than previous record
Credit: Takashi Kobayashi, Tohoku University Quantum bits, or qubits, can hold quantum information much longer now thanks to efforts by ...
NASA’s Aqua Satellite finds wind shear not letting up on Omar
Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Depression Omar is one stubborn storm. Since it developed early in the week, it was being affected ...
‘Floppy’ atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricity
'Cold neutrons' uncover atomic dynamics that give thermoelectric materials low-heat conductivityCredit: Tyson Lanigan-Atkins, Delaire group, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- ...
nTIDE August 2020 Jobs Report: Modest gains encouraging for Americans with disabilities
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report--featuring The Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Education for People with Disabilities (CEED) Project, an ...
Surprise on Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL An observer standing on Mars would see the planet's moon Phobos cross the sky from west ...
Blood breakdown product commandeers important enzyme
Researchers at the University of Bonn discover unexpected interaction between the protein APC and hemeCredit: (c) Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn The ...
Scientists propose nano-confinement strategy to form sub-nanometer reactors
Credit: LIANG Ji Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are promising in electrocatalysis processes due to their maximum utilization of active species. However, ...
EU research funding in the millions for Saarbrücken-based computational linguist
Credit: Thorsten Mohr, Saarland Universität People infer things beyond what is literally said - and everyone makes his or her ...
Unconventional T cells in severe COVID-19 patients could predict disease outcome
Credit: © 2020 Jouan et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200872 Researchers in France have discovered that ...
Nanoearthquakes control spin centers in SiC
Credit: A. Hernandez-Minguez Researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden and the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg ...
Autophagy: the beginning of the end
Scientists reveal key steps in the formation of the recycling centers of the cellCredit: © Verena Baumann Autophagosomes first form ...
Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds
a: Geological zone in western Japan. The blue-green part is the Sanbagawa belt that crosses mainland Japan. The Nishisonogi metamorphic ...
A chemist from RUDN developed a green catalyst for pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry
Credit: RUDN University Many production facilities (e.g. plastic manufacturers, pharma companies, and others) use nanocatalysts that contain palladium--an expensive component ...
The potential of green infrastructure in mitigating flood impacts: Focused on the mobility of low income and minority comunities
Credit: Photo by Eugene Lee Short-term flooding from extreme storm events poses a serious transportation challenge in U.S. cities. This ...
Quantum leap for speed limit bounds
Rice physicists set far-more-accurate limits on speed of quantum informationCredit: Image courtesy of Zhiyuan Wang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 3, ...
