New ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that...
Discovery of new ice may change understanding of water
Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid...
Gail Frayne appointed Jefferson Lab chief financial officer
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has appointed Gail Frayne as...
Metalloradical catalysis guides new cobalt-based system that exploits unique features of homolytic radical reaction
Chestnut Hill, Mass (2/2/2023) – A team of Boston College researchers has demonstrated an unprecedented catalytic approach that enables concurrent...
Researchers use lead recycled from car batteries to make photodetectors
WASHINGTON — As lithium-ion batteries continue to decrease in price, they are quickly replacing the lead-acid batteries traditionally used in...
HKUST breakthrough identifies rare tumor cell “spies”
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a novel technology which allows genomic DNA and...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene Zuk for establishing the key role of social behavior in animal evolution and its importance for species conservation
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone in this fifteenth edition to Susan...
Preparing Europe for the next pandemic: Building the European Health Union
Sandra Gallina, Director-General of the of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety , notes in her editorial that the...
Unconventional superconductivity found in kagome metal
Physicists using advanced muon spin spectroscopy at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI make the missing link between their recent breakthrough in...
The first lab-created “quantum abacus”
Do you want to know whether a very large integer is a prime number or not? Or if it is...
Major research project studies what it looks like when HIV and coronavirus proteins bind to medications
The way in which molecules interact forms the basis of life and treating illness. But what does it look like...
Sparse, small, but diverse neural connections help make perception reliable, efficient
The brain’s cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed through a region called the thalamus.Credit: Nedivi...
Reducing their natural signals: How sneaky germs hide from ants
Pathogens are disease-causing organisms. By natural selection, they develop evading mechanisms to outsmart the host’s immune system and to get...
Near-zero-dispersion soliton and broadband modulational instability Kerr microcombs in anomalous dispersion
Microresonators based frequency combs, microcombs, have attracted huge interest in the last decades for their revolutionary performance of compact size,...
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf
Astronomers have directly measured the mass of a dead star using an effect known as gravitational microlensing, first predicted by...
Nematodes can help us detect indoor air impurities
Good quality indoor air is crucial to our well-being, while impurities in the air can compromise our working capacity and...
Newly proposed strategy in chemistry sheds light on better applications in energy devices
A research team has proposed a new strategy to use a kind of molecules called zwitterions-polyoxometalates to optimize and broaden...
Genes responsible for coronary artery disease, world’s No. 1 killer, identified
University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators have identified genes that play key roles in the development of coronary artery disease,...
Tuberculosis vaccine does not protect elderly against COVID-19
Tuberculosis vaccine does not protect elderly against COVID-19Credit: UMC Utrecht Tuberculosis vaccine does not protect elderly against COVID-19 Utrecht, February...
Flue2Chem: Science-based industries join forces for first time to address UK net zero targets
Key industrial players representing the UK’s £73 billion chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry sector have signed a collaboration agreement to launch...
