Chemistry

Every year, life-threating invasive fungal infections afflict more than 2 million individuals globally. Mortality rates for these infections are high,...

Alaskan land eroding faster due to climate change

A new study out of The University of Texas at Arlington shows that frozen land in Alaska is eroding faster...

Göttingen University researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from corals, like this Acropora coral, to expand the uses of the “triple oxygen isotope” method and help measure temperatures from the past more accurately. This is important for understanding

New perspectives for using corals in climate research

Measuring temperatures from Earth’s past is important for understanding the development of its climate. Ancient ocean temperatures are most commonly...

The Ohno Research Group. Paul Ohno is in the center and Angel Gibbons is on the right.

Auburn researchers seek novel approach to study aerosols implicated in respiratory virus transmission

Paul Ohno, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the recipient of a prestigious National Institutes of...

Researchers show pesticide contamination is more than apple skin deep

Pesticides and herbicides are critical to ensuring food security worldwide, but these substances can present a safety risk to people...

World’s highest-performance superconducting wire segment fabricated at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Our energy future may depend on high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wires. This technology’s ability to carry electricity without...

Cover of Nature Catalysis and study lead Jianwei “John” Miao

Researchers reveal atomic-scale details of catalysts’ active sites

The chemical and energy industries depend upon catalysts to drive the reactions used to create their products. Many important reactions...

Nanometer-sized palladium particles on ceria “islands” make noble-metal catalysts stable and efficient. (Photo: ITCP, KIT)

Concept for efficiency-enhanced noble-metal catalysts

The Objective: Best Possible Catalytic PerformanceCredit: Photo: ITCP, KIT The Objective: Best Possible Catalytic Performance Noble-metal catalysts are used in...

Lehigh University researchers dig deeper into stability challenges of nuclear fusion—with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise continues to help researchers better understand the physics behind nuclear fusion.Credit: Lehigh University Mayonnaise continues to help researchers better...

Heating for fusion: Why toast plasma when you can microwave it!

Some believe the future of fusion in the U.S. lies in compact, spherical fusion vessels. A smaller tokamak, it is thought,...

Observations of super-Bloch oscillations for optical pulses in a temporal lattice created via two coupled fiber loops, which exhibit collapse with vanishing oscillation amplitude under specific driving strength.

Strong driving to realize super-Bloch oscillations

Full coherent control of wave transport and localization is a long-sought goal in wave physics research, which encompasses many different...

Two red dwarf stars unleashing powerful flares

UH astronomers uncover risks to planets that could host life

A groundbreaking study has revealed that red dwarf stars can produce stellar flares that carry far-ultraviolet (far-UV) radiation levels much...

Revolutionary microfluidic sensors enable real-time detection of multiple heavy metals in water

Recently, a group of researchers from Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

New insights into neutron irradiation damage in high-power thyristors enhance fusion reactor safety

Recently, a research group led by Associate Prof. LI Hua from Institute of Plasma Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical...

Cold antimatter for quantum state-resolved precision measurements

Why does the universe contain matter and (virtually) no antimatter? The BASE international research collaboration at the European Organisation for...

Figure 1. Observed the different colors of the aurora borealis

First full 2-D spectral image of aurora borealis from a hyperspectral camera