Chemistry
Improving sodium ion batteries with mechanically robust nanocellular graphene
Ever since its discovery in 2004, graphene has been revolutionizing the field of materials science and beyond. Graphene comprises two-dimensional...
A smarter city skyline for flood safety
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2024 — A city’s skyline — the distinctive shapes and arrangements of its buildings — impacts the...
New technique lets scientists create resistance-free electron channels
An international research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated...
Early medieval money mystery solved
Credit: © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge University of Cambridge media release Early medieval money mystery solved ...
New study shows renewable energy could work as power source at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
A recent analysis shows that renewable energy could be a viable alternative to diesel fuel for science at the South...
Protecting art and passwords with biochemistry
Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today’s passwords. Some experts...
Climate change threatens Antarctic meteorites
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for...
A simple, inexpensive way to make carbon atoms bind together
LA JOLLA, CA—The active ingredient in many drugs is what’s known as a small molecule: bigger than water, much smaller...
Ocean waves propel PFAS back to land
A new study by researchers at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, published in Science Advances, reveals that PFAS...
Simulating magnetization in a Heisenberg quantum spin chain
The rapid progress of quantum simulators is now enabling them to study problems that before have been limited to the...
Utilizing palladium for addressing contact issues of buried oxide thin film transistors
A novel method that employs palladium to inject hydrogen into the deeply buried oxide-metal electrode contacts of amorphous oxide semiconductors...
Chemical reactions can scramble quantum information as well as black holes
HOUSTON – (April 5, 2024) – If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole,...
With VECSELs towards the quantum internet
The expansion of fiber optics is progressing worldwide, which not only increases the bandwidth of conventional Internet connections, but also...
Kerr-enhanced optical spring for next-generation gravitational wave detectors
The detection of gravitational waves stands as one of the most significant achievements in modern physics. In 2017, gravitational waves...
Rapid, simultaneous detection of multiple bacteria achieved with handheld sensor
Hear the words E. coli or salmonella and food poisoning comes to mind. Rapid detection of such bacteria is crucial...
Stellar collisions produce strange, zombie-like survivors
Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole appear deceptively youthful. But unlike humans,...
Ancient ocean oxygenation timeline revealed
New study introduces a pioneering application of dolomite U-Pb geochronology, shedding new light on the evolution of ancient marine environments....
Portable swept-source Raman spectrometer for chemical and biomedical applications
In 1928, Indian physicist Sir C. V. Raman and his colleague K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light interacts with...
Researchers 3D print key components for a point-of-care mass spectrometer
Mass spectrometry, a technique that can precisely identify the chemical components of a sample, could be used to monitor the...
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Physics of complex fluids: Ring polymers show unexpected motion patterns under shear
An international research team is attracting the attention of experts in the field with computational results on the behavior of...
