Chemistry
DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation visits Jefferson Lab
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – On April 18, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility welcomed Under Secretary...
From disorder to order: flocking birds and “spinning” particles
Researchers Kazuaki Takasan and Kyogo Kawaguchi of the University of Tokyo with Kyosuke Adachi of RIKEN, Japan's largest comprehensive research...
Scientists capture X-rays from upward positive lightning
Globally, lightning is responsible for over 4,000 fatalities and billions of dollars in damage every year; Switzerland itself weathers up...
AMS Science Preview: Hawaiian climates; chronic pain; lightning-caused wildfires
The American Meteorological Society continuously publishes research on climate, weather, and water in its 12 journals. Many of these articles...
More efficient molecular motor widens potential applications
Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. This resulted in...
High-precision blood glucose level prediction achieved by few-molecule reservoir computing
1. A collaborative research team from NIMS and Tokyo University of Science has successfully developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)...
RNA modification is responsible for the disruption of mitochondrial protein synthesis in Alzheimer’s disease
A team of researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has identified a mechanism that causes mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s...
Bloody net
Angiogenesis is a process of forming hierarchical vascular networks in living tissues. Its complexity makes the controlled generation of blood...
Cocaine is an emerging contaminant of concern in the Bay of Santos (Brazil), says researcher
In addition to already known pollutants, the Bay of Santos – a city in the state of São Paulo (Brazil)...
Freeze casting – a guide to creating hierarchically structured materials
“We were delighted when the world-renowned journal Nature offered us the opportunity to prepare a Nature Reviews Methods Primer with...
Recent progress of narrowband perovskite photodetectors: fundamental physics and strategies
Photodetectors are devices that convert an input optical signal into an electrical signal that can be processed by an electronic...
How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
It’s the most fundamental of processes — the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning...
Making light ‘feel’ a magnetic field like an electron would
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Unlike electrons, particles of light are uncharged, so they do not respond to magnetic fields. Despite...
Amanda Randles awarded ACM Prize in Computing for revolutionizing medical diagnostics
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Amanda Randles the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking...
Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy
While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays - high-energy photons - coming from...
Making diamonds at ambient pressure
Did you know that 99% of synthetic diamonds are currently produced using high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) methods? A prevailing paradigm...
A chemical mystery solved – the reaction explaining large carbon sinks
A mystery that has puzzled the scientific community for over 50 years has finally been solved. A team from Linköping...
Nanofibers rid water of hazardous dyes
Using waste to purify water may sound counterintuitive. But at TU Wien, this is exactly what has now been achieved:...
Balancing AI and physics: toward a learnable climate model
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing notable changes to atmospheric science, particularly with the introduction of large AI weather models like...
