Chemistry
Kavli Exploration Award backs Rice-led sustainable carbon materials research
HOUSTON – (Nov. 27, 2023) – An international team of scientists led by Rice University’s Matteo Pasquali has won a $4.1...
‘Strange metal’ is strangely quiet in noise experiment
HOUSTON – (Nov. 23, 2023) – True to form, a “strange metal” quantum material proved strangely quiet in recent quantum...
Separating out signals recorded at the seafloor
Blame it on plate tectonics. The deep ocean is never preserved, but instead is lost to time as the seafloor...
“Amaterasu” particle: a new cosmic mystery
Osaka, Japan – A high-energy particle falls from space to the Earth’s surface—it is not clear where it came from...
Researchers obtain promising results against capacity loss in vanadium batteries
An article by researchers at the Center for Development of Functional Materials (CDMF) in Brazil describes a successful strategy to mitigate charge capacity...
KIT is planning for climate research in space
ESA's decision to further pursue the CAIRT (changing-atmosphere infrared tomography) satellite mission as one of two projects was confirmed by...
New drug delivery system could reduce daily diabetes shots to just three a year
Materials engineers at Stanford University have developed a novel hydrogel drug delivery system that transforms daily or weekly injections of...
Predicting the fate of shallow coastal ecosystems for the year 2100
A new study of shallow-water ecosystems estimates that, by 2100, climate change and coastal land usage could result in significant...
AI for perovskite solar cells: Key to better manufacturing
Perovskite tandem solar cells combine a perovskite solar cell with a conventional solar cell, for example based on silicon. These...
UTA, DOE lab partner to prove new atomic cooling techniques
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded associate professor of physics Benjamin Jones a $540,000 grant to initiate a new...
Novel machine learning model for molecular simulation under external field
Prof. JIANG Bin’s research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) developed a universal field-induced recursively...
Testing the limits of AlphaFold2’s accuracy in predicting protein structure
Researchers from the Center for Soft and Living Matter within the Institute for Basic Science (South Korea), recently explored the...
Understanding the strength development mechanism of chemically treated sandy soil
Chemical injection is a process that enhances sand strength and its water-sealing capacity, making sandy soil suitable for various applications...
First experimental evidence of hopfions in crystals opens up new dimension for future technology
Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have become a hot and challenging research topic in recent years. In a...
Nuclear physics traineeship program offers launchpad for research careers
Associate Professor of physics Benjamin Jones has received a $341,571 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue his successful...
Effect of aerosol particles on clouds and the climate captured better
Credit: Dom Jack, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) Leipzig/Mainz. The extent to which aerosol particles affect the climate...
Discovery of structural regularity hidden in silica glass
Glass - whether used to insulate our homes or as the screens in our computers and smartphones - is a...
Written in blood
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2023 – Forensic science has captured the public imagination by storm, as the profusion of “true crime”...
Density matters for better battery material performance, researchers find
Zinc — cheap, abundant, environmentally friendly — may be the answer to better batteries, but there’s a major problem: Aqueous...
Toward sustainable energy applications with breakthrough in proton conductors
Donor doping into a mother material with disordered intrinsic oxygen vacancies, instead of the widely used strategy of acceptor doping...
