Chemistry
Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sights
With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest...
The devil is in the details: Re-imagining fertilizer precursor synthesis
Osaka, Japan – The Haber–Bosch reaction helps feed the world by converting nitrogen into ammonia, a fertilizer precursor. However, its...
AIP recognizes mathematical physicist Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou with 2023 Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – AIP has selected Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou as the winner of the 2023 John Torrence Tate...
Visualization of electron dynamics on liquid helium for the first time
An international team led by Lancaster University has discovered how electrons can slither rapidly to-and-fro across a quantum surface when...
Imaging the proton with neutrinos
Protons and neutrons, the building blocks of atomic nuclei, are themselves made up of strongly interacting quarks and gluons">quarks and gluons. Because...
Aging | Age-related methylation changes in the human sperm epigenome
“ we identified > 1,000 candidate genes with genome-wide significant age-related methylation changes in sperm.”Credit: 2023 Bernhardt et al. “...
A recipe for 3D-printing food
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – 3D-printing food could address global challenges in food supply and nutrition. But there are hurdles...
Cascading failures in urban traffic systems tied to hidden bottlenecks
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2023 – Transportation systems in urban settings are vulnerable to a variety of factors including weather, traffic...
A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity
Extensive studies of the fossil record have shown that the diversity of life forms has varied significantly over geological time,...
Study confirms nitrate can release uranium into groundwater
Eight years ago, the data was sound but only suggestive, the evidence strong but circumstantial.Credit: Daugherty Water for Food Global...
Pusan National University researchers develop portable color-changing food spoilage sensor
When foods like fish, meat, and cheese decompose, they release a variety of low molecular weight organic nitrogen compounds known...
Single-atom vibrational spectroscopy now sensitive at level of chemical bonds
Researchers led by Prof. ZHOU Wu from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and Prof. Sokrates T. Pantelides...
3000+ billion tons of ice lost from Antarctic Ice Sheet over 25 years
Scientists have calculated that the fastest changing Antarctic region - the Amundsen Sea Embayment - has lost more than 3,000 billion tonnes of ice over...
Department of Energy recognizes two decades’ worth of Argonne’s high-quality thermochemical data
The Active Thermochemical Tables join other highly regarded data resources in DOE’s Public Reusable Research Data.Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)...
‘Fishing’ for biomarkers
While a popular hobby for many, fishing is also a pastime full of uncertainty. Each time you have something on...
First detection of neutrinos made at a particle collider
A team including physicists of the University of Bern has for the first time detected subatomic particles called neutrinos created...
Scientists open door to manipulating ‘quantum light’
For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the...
Instrument adapted from astronomy observation helps capture singular quantum interference effects
By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to...
Sculpting quantum materials for the electronics of the future
The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials -...
Top-down control of bottom-up material synthesis @ nanoscale
In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oea.2023.230023 Professor Saulius Juodkazis of Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia and...
