Chemistry
Astrophysical jet caught in a “speed trap”
The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke selected his own seven wonders of the world in a BBC television series...
How to shift gears in a molecular motor
“Artificial molecular motors are molecules that absorb light from an external source, such as sunlight, and convert the energy in...
Cellular scaffolding rewired to make microscopic railways
Princeton researchers have learned to harness the gossamer scaffolding that maintains the structure of living cells and used it to...
Oder River crisis: Statistics give a chance to prevent river tragedies
Hundreds of tons of dead fish flowed down the Oder River at the turn of July and August 2022. The...
David Brydges wins 2024 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2024 – AIP and the American Physical Society (APS) are pleased to announce David Brydges as the...
UTSA researchers reveal faint features in galaxy NGC 5728 though JWST image techniques
(SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS) — Mason Leist is working remotely—127 million light-years from Earth—on images of a supermassive black hole in his...
Deep learning reveals molecular secrets of explosive perchlorate salts
Perchlorates are a class of compounds that are notorious for their explosive nature. This raises safety concerns during experiments involving...
Recovering lossless propagation: HKU physicists overcoming optical loss in polariton system with synthetic complex frequency waves
A collaborative research team co-led by Professor Shuang ZHANG, the Interim Head of the Department of Physics, The University of...
Lights, detector, action!
Kyoto, Japan -- Our understanding of the world relies greatly on our knowledge of its constituent materials and their interactions....
ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Researchers, staff members and licensees from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received top honors in the Federal...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the four discoverers of the biological mechanisms behind protein function and their role in the origin of multiple diseases
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this sixteenth edition to the four...
Sub-wavelength confinement of light demonstrated in indium phosphide nanocavity
WASHINGTON — As we transition to a new era in computing, there is a need for new devices that integrate...
Ultrafast excitations in correlated systems
An international team of researchers from the European XFEL together with colleagues from the Max Born Institute in Berlin, Universities...
Mind the (green) gap
Color mixing is the process of combining two or more colors: red and green make yellow, blue and red make...
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world
More than 2 billion people, approximately a quarter of the world’s population, lack access to clean drinking water. A new, portable...
Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge
Emerging research suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal...
Deep underground laboratory will be a first for Africa
Africa’s first deep underground science laboratory may become a reality in the next five to ten years with the establishment...
Researchers find new multiphoton effect within quantum interference of light
An international team of researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has...
KAIST research team breaks down musical instincts with AI
Music, often referred to as the universal language, is known to be a common component in all cultures. Then, could...
Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
Charles Darwin proposed that life could have emerged in a “warm little pond” with the right cocktail of chemicals and...
