Chemistry
Enhancing at-home COVID tests with glow-in-the dark materials
Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you’ve...
First visible-light induced simultaneous cleavage of C-C and C-N bonds with silver-modified polyoxometalate photocatalyst, researchers report
Cracking carbon bonds is a notoriously difficult problem, but it may hold the key to generating greener, more sustainable chemicals....
Electric vehicle batteries could get big boost with new polymer coating
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating – called HOS-PFM – that could...
Ratiometric fluorescence sensing system provides smarter and faster screening of carbendazim residues
Recently, the research team led by Prof. JIANG Changlong from Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Hefei Institutes of Physical...
Designable timbre is realized by a meta-silencer
Publishing in the journal International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, the team led by researchers based at the Institute of Acoustics of...
Pusan National University researchers uncover causes for increased compound droughts & heatwaves in East Asia
With global warming on the rise, the severity and frequency of extreme weather events are also rising dramatically; this includes...
Novel porous materials are ideal for metal-air batteries, researchers report
Sustainable energy solutions cannot be pulled out of thin air. However, combining air with metal and other frameworks may pave...
Advancing engineering
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara professors Thuc-Quyen Nguyen and Carlos G. Levi are among 106 new members of...
Controlling electric double layer dynamics for next generation all-solid-state batteries
In our quest for clean energy and carbon neutrality, all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries (ASS-LIBs) offer considerable promise. ASS-LIBs are expected to...
Why are electric vehicle fires so hard to put out? (video)
WASHINGTON, March. 6, 2023 — Electric vehicles don’t catch fire often, but when they do, things get spicy. How do...
Two-dimensional quantum freeze
Glass nanoparticles trapped by lasers in extreme vacuum are considered a promising platform for exploring the limits of the quantum...
This starchy bioplastic could make soggy paper straws a thing of the past
In the fight against pollution, several regions in the U.S. have banned the use of plastic straws. Alternative materials exist,...
Humanity’s quest to discover the origins of life in the universe
“We are living in an extraordinary moment in history,” says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich’s Centre for Origin and...
Scientists thread rows of metal atoms into nanofiber bundles
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully threaded atoms of indium metal in between individual fibers in...
Intellifoods Labs, LLC strengthens partnership with Mason scientists to reduce food bacterial contamination detection time
Mason Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Ramin M. Hakami has received a total of $35,000 in grants from Intellifoods Labs,...
Unique hybrid reefs deployed off Miami Beach
The first piece of a series of concrete structures was lowered into the water off the coast of Miami Beach...
Speeding up extreme fast charging capability in lithium-ion batteries
Ishikawa, Japan -- Current society is transitioning en masse from fossil fuels to renewable resources and electric batteries. Despite the...
The dual face of photoreceptors during seed germination
Seed germination depends on light in many plants. But not always: Aethionema arabicum, a plant adapted to challenging environmental conditions,...
Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber
Tree-ring analysis – so-called dendrochronological analysis – has been part of archaeology for many years and has made it possible...
Most detailed geological model reveals Earth’s past 100 million years
Climate, tectonics and time combine to create powerful forces that craft the face of our planet. Add the gradual sculpting...
