Chemistry
‘Topological gardening’ to achieve unexpected spin transport
‘Trimming’ the edge-states of a topological insulator yields a new class of material featuring unconventional ‘two way’ edge transport in...
Topology’s role in decoding energy of amorphous systems
Osaka, Japan – How is a donut similar to a coffee cup? This question often serves as an illustrative example...
Water harvesting in Death Valley: Conquering the arid wilderness
Korea is regarded as a “water-stressed nation.” Although the country receives an annual precipitation of approximately 1,300mm, it is characterized...
Want to know how light works? Try asking a mechanic
Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens first debated the nature of light, scientists have been puzzling...
St. Jude shows cancer resistance protein can have its cake and eat it too
(Memphis, Tenn. – August 18th, 2023) Most new cancer cases are treated with chemotherapy, but humans naturally express proteins that...
A new DNA drug to fight blood clots
Various medical circumstances, including heart attacks and extreme cases of COVID-19, necessitate the use of anticoagulants, medicines that prevent blood...
Climate win-win: study quantifies benefits of enhanced weathering
Applying ground-up silicate rock to Midwestern farm fields can capture significant amounts of carbon dioxide and prevent it from accumulating...
Bio-based waterborne poly(vanillin-butyl acrylate)/mxene coatings for leather with desired warmth retention and antibacterial properties
A study published in the journal of Engineering reveals a remarkable development in the field of green coating materials for...
A new “spin” on ergodicity breaking
In a recent Science paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David...
Acoustic emission monitoring technique, an essential way to analyze pulsed laser processing
Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is used to reveal the interaction mechanisms in pulsed laser processing of float glass. Circular ablated...
Auburn University hosts the 60th edition of the Renowned Computational Biophysics Workshop
AUBURN, AL – In July, as many enjoyed the hot weather at Alabama's gulf coast beaches, in the Leach Science...
Demon Hunting: Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle
In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid can do something strange. While they normally have...
Study observes sudden acceleration of flow, generates new boundary layer
In an experiment on how turbulent boundary layers respond to acceleration in the flow around them, aerospace engineers at the...
We finally know why quantum ‘strange metals’ are so strange
For nearly 40 years, materials called ‘strange metals’ have flummoxed quantum physicists, defying explanation by operating outside the normal rules...
New study offers information on bone regeneration and osteoporosis in the light of evolution
A new study of the PhyloBone project of the University of Turku, Finland, identifies hundreds of non-collagenous proteins in the...
Scientists use FAST to discover a new population of ‘dwarf’ pulses
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. HAN Jinlin from the National Astronomical...
Universal linear processing of spatially incoherent light through diffractive optical networks
Information processing with light is a topic of ever-increasing interest among optics and photonics researchers. Apart from the quest for...
Accelerating discovery in artificial intelligence for science
What if artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to spur discovery in areas such as biotechnology, drug discovery and fluid...
Visualizing the microscopic phases of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
A Princeton University-led team of scientists has imaged the precise microscopic underpinnings responsible for many quantum phases observed in a...
CCNY scientists trap light inside a magnet
A new study led by Vinod M. Menon and his group at the City College of New York shows that...
