Chemistry
Plants that survived dinosaur extinction pulled nitrogen from air
DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain these...
The mind’s eye of a neural network system
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the background of image recognition software that can ID our friends on social media and...
CSU develops antibacterial material for use with internal medical devices such as hip replacements or pacemakers
Researchers at Colorado State University and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have developed an effective and flexible antimicrobial...
New global stocktake: Healthy forests could store much more carbon
Natural carbon reservoirs will play a major role at the COP28 world climate conference in the United Arab Emirates. After...
Lithium-ion batteries are no longer the gold standard in battery tech
The use of lithium metal as the anode for batteries is one of the smarter options with better energy density...
Society of Rheology announces Winner of 2023 Journal of Rheology Publication Award
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2023 — AIP Publishing and the Journal of Rheology congratulate Norman J. Wagner, Julie B. Hipp,...
A new kind of magnetism
For a magnet to stick to a fridge door, inside of it several physical effects need to work together perfectly....
Surveilling wetlands for infectious bird flu — and finding it
Recently, morning omelets and holiday dinners have gotten more expensive. One likely cause is bird flu, outbreaks of which led...
Tau-ting the importance of protein mapping
Credit: QBI Shanley Longfield Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-43130-4 Method of Research Imaging analysis Subject of Research Cells Article Title...
SFI Press releases new editions of Murray Gell-Mann books
The opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey describe its eponymous hero as polytropos, a man of many turns. It’s no coincidence that SFI co-founder...
Study finds strongest evidence yet for local sources of cosmic ray electrons
A new study using data from the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) instrument on the International Space Station has found evidence...
UIUC professors receive AFOSR grant to study detrimental defects in superconducting qubit junctions
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors Angela Kou (Physics), Pinshane Huang (MatSE), Wolfgang Pfaff (Physics) and Andre Schleife (MatSE) have received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant for...
Downloading NASA’s dark matter data from above the clouds
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system...
Galactic ‘lightsabers’: Answering longstanding questions about jets from black holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them.Credit: Video by George...
Researchers identify unexpected twist while developing new polymer-based semiconductors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study led by chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign brings fresh insight into the...
Keep it secret: Cloud data storage security approach taps quantum physics
Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers around the globe pursuing secure data storage, and a team...
Putting sound waves to work to create safer public spaces
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2023 – The risk of hearing loss does not come just from loud machinery or other obvious...
Purdue pharmaceutical compound sounds the alarm on cancer cells and unleashes T cells
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Pharmacy are leveraging the dual roles played by an enzyme found in...
Accurate forecasting of the required precipitation for a recent drought recovery
According to the Korea Meteorological Administration, the average national rainfall for March in 2023 measured a mere 28.7 mm, which...
Instrument from the University of Bern flies to the Moon
As the second man to step out of the lunar module on July 21st, 1969, the first thing that Buzz...
