Chemistry
New driver for shapes of small quark-gluon plasma drops?
UPTON, NY—New measurements of how particles flow from collisions of different types of particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have...
First drug discovered and designed with generative AI enters Phase II trials, with first patients dosed
Insilico Medicine ("Insilico"), a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical-stage biotechnology company, today announced that it has completed the first dose...
Chocolate can be fruity or flowery — if you skip the roasting step
“Natural” foods are trendy, and proponents claim that little or no processing helps preserve the food’s inherent flavor. Research now...
Fondant: Where baking and thermodynamics mix
WASHINGTON, June 27, 2023 – With their unique appearance, texture, and mouthfeel, fondants have intrigued bakers and physicists for years....
New developments for high-speed internet from space enabled by coherent modulation and adaptive optics
Internet from space via satellite has become a topic of interest. Commercial satellite networks, such as SpaceX Starlink and Telesat...
£1.29 million funding boost for solar scientists
Scientists from Northumbria University’s world-leading Solar and Space Physics research group have been awarded more than £1 million to carry...
Gravity and dark matter, a bond beyond distances
Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity as an action at a distance: a planet instantly feels the influence of...
Air pollution speeds snowmelt
Diminished anthropogenic pollutant emissions during 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns reduced snowmelt in the Himalayas, according to a study. Liqiang Zhang and...
Benzimidazole-based covalent organic framework embedding single-atom Pt sites for visible-light-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Hydrogen (H2) is a clean carbon-free fuel with high gravimetric energy density and emerges as an attractive alternative to the...
Unveiling the secrets of liquid iron under extreme conditions
Iron is the most abundant element by mass on Earth. Despite being so common and well-studied, iron still manages to...
Synthesis of peripherally annulated phenanthroporphyrins
Prof. Okujima, in collaboration with Prof. Kobayashi at Shinshu University, reported the synthesis, molecular structure, optical properties and electronic structure...
Recent progress of Ni-based catalysts for methanol electrooxidation reaction in alkaline media
The study is led by Ligang Feng (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University).Credit: Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co....
Best papers of 2022 announced by SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) has honored four of its best papers published in 2022. The...
Research prize for chemist at Göttingen University
Professor Lutz Ackermann from the University of Göttingen has been awarded a prize in the "Project of the Century" competition...
The end of Haber-Bosch (video)
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2023 — Billions of people rely on a single, hundred-year-old chemical reaction every day: the Haber-Bosch process....
Study of deep-sea corals reveals ocean currents have not fuelled rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide
Pioneering analysis of deep-sea corals has overturned the idea that ocean currents contributed to increasing global levels of carbon dioxide...
Tuning T cell traits and functions with biomechanical materials
By Benjamin BoettnerCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University By Benjamin Boettner (Boston) — The successful campaign of adoptive T cell...
COATS experiment revealed the three-dimensional structural image of the atmospheric boundary layer during haze pollution in the North China Plain
The results of the experiment “Comprehensive Observation on the Atmospheric boundary layer Three-dimensional Structure” (COATS) were recently published online in...
Imaging of electronic molecular orbitals of single molecules using field emission microscopy
Tsukuba, Japan—Research and development of organic electronics such as organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes is rapidly advancing. The...
Towards efficient lithium–air batteries with solution plasma-based synthesis of perovskite hydroxide catalysts
With global warming on the rise, it has become imperative to reduce fossil fuel dependency and switch to alternate green...
