Chemistry
Your gut’s microbiome, on a chip
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2023 – The gut is one of the most complex organs in the body. Inside, it teems...
Clear sign that QGP production ‘turns off’ at low energy
UPTON, NY—Physicists report new evidence that production of an exotic state of matter in collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic...
Sustainable chemistry experts create blueprint for safer future
Feb. 27, 2023Credit: Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Beyond Benign Feb. 27, 2023 Media contacts: Emily Gowdey-Backus, director of...
Satellites observe speed-up of Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula
Glaciers - giant blocks of moving ice - along Antarctica’s coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a...
ASU News New study on DNA transcription uncovers links to neurodegenerative disease
In a first-of-its-kind study, Arizona State University Professor Michael Lynch joins a multi-institute group of researchers to investigate transcription error rates in...
BasePairPuzzle: A new way to teach students about nucleobase pairing
Molecular models are a tried-and-tested tool for teaching chemistry to students of all ages. By enabling users to visualize the...
Chaos on the nanometer scale
Chaotic behavior is typically known from large systems: for example, from weather, from asteroids in space that are simultaneously attracted...
Researchers find several oceanic bottom circulation collapses in the past 4.7 million years
Antarctic bottom water (AABW) covers more than two-thirds of the global ocean bottom, and its formation has recently decreased. However,...
Unusual atom helps in search for Universe’s building blocks
An unusual form of caesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up...
World’s fastest laser camera films combustion in real time
By illuminating a sample surface with short laser beam pulses, it is possible to film sequences of various chemical and...
Healing the brain: Hydrogels enable neuronal tissue growth
Synthetic hydrogels were shown to provide an effective scaffold for neuronal tissue growth in areas of brain damage, providing a...
Tisca Dorsey hired as Jefferson Lab business and finance director
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has hired Tisca Dorsey as...
On the road to better solid-state batteries
A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Florida State University has designed a new blueprint for solid-state...
Promoting the electrochemical hydrogenation of furfural by synergistic Cu0-Cu+ active sites
This study is led by Prof. Yuqin Zou (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University). The experiments were performed...
Active site identification and engineering during the dynamic evolution of copper-based catalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
This review article is led by Prof. Fan Dong and associate research fellow Bangwei Deng (Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Huzhou),...
Let there be (controlled) light
In the very near future, quantum computers are expected to revolutionize the way we compute, with new approaches to database...
Metasurface enters laser fiber cavity for spatiotemporal mode control
Metasurfaces are highly versatile for manipulating the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light. During the last decade, metasurfaces have been...
Researchers: “We have miscalculated for decades – half of an insulin dose may not work as expected”
New research suggests that a large portion of a diabetic's insulin dose is unlikely to work as expected. University of...
Theory can sort order from chaos in complex quantum systems
HOUSTON – (Feb. 23, 2023) – It’s not easy to make sense of quantum-scale motion, but a new mathematical theory...
Insilico Medicine sends first generative AI-designed drug for COVID-19 and variants to clinic
Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotech company powered by generative AI, today announces that China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has...
