Chemistry
Study: hair care product chemicals can linger in the air in surprising amounts
The average morning routine for many Americans includes inhaling several milligrams of chemicals that may be harmful to their health,...
Toward a sustainable EV battery supply chain globally
Decarbonization of the global economy will require the production of a large number of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). However,...
IOP Publishing launches Sustainability Science and Technology – a new interdisciplinary OA journal aimed at fostering a sustainable future
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching Sustainability Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary, open access journal dedicated to advancing sustainability through cutting-edge...
Vectorial adaptive optics: correcting both polarization and phase
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique used for real-time correction of phase aberrations by employing feedback to adjust the optical...
Giant sea salt aerosols play major role in Hawai‘i’s coastal clouds, rain
Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols, such as sea salt, dust, and ash, play a giant role in shaping weather and...
Hundreds of PPPL students and scientists present findings at annual APS-DPP conference in Denver
More than 120 staff and 80 students and interns from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory...
SwRI-led PUNCH mission advances toward 2025 launch
SAN ANTONIO — November 27, 2023 —On November 17, 2023, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission...
Professor Kazunori Kataoka recognized as a “Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher” for the eighth time in seven consecutive years
Clarivate, a global information service provider in the U.K., annually releases a list of highly cited researchers based on the...
Durable, inexpensive electrocatalyst generates clean hydrogen and oxygen from water
Hydrogen is a highly combustible gas that can help the world achieve its clean energy goals if manufactured in an...
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...
