Chemistry
Climate change likely to uproot more Amazon trees
Tropical forests are crucial for sucking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But they’re also subject to intense storms that...
Researchers gain deeper understanding of mechanism behind superconductors
This confirmed their own findings from 2016, when Haase and his team developed an experimental method based on magnetic resonance...
AAS Awards Laboratory Astrophysics Prize to NASA Goddard scientist
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the 2023 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize to Dr. Reggie Hudson of the Cosmic Ice Laboratory at...
Our future climate depends partly on soil microbes—but how are they affected by climate change?
AMHERST, Mass. – The largest terrestrial carbon sink on Earth is the planet’s soil. One of the big fears is...
The mechanism of cosmic magnetic fields explored in the laboratory
Plasma is matter that is so hot that the electrons are separated from atoms. The electrons float freely and the...
Fruit flies grow brainy on a poor diet
Kyoto, Japan -- Nutrition, as an impactful part of an organism's physiological state, seems to extend to all stages of...
CCDC welcomes new applications for its FAIRE grants to advance structural science
FAIRE grants provide access to the Cambridge Structural Database, software and training.Credit: None FAIRE grants provide access to the Cambridge...
The world in grains of interstellar dust
Understanding how dust grains form in interstellar gas could offer significant insights to astronomers and help materials scientists develop useful...
One-pot reaction creates versatile building block for bioactive molecules
Chemists from the University of Groningen have found a simple way to produce previously inaccessible chiral Z-alkenes, molecules that offer...
Scientists achieved phonon and photon lasing in optomechanical cavities
Since the introduction of the first ruby laser—a solid-state laser that uses the synthetic ruby crystal as its laser medium—in...
Theoretical computations identify a solid-state hydrogen storage material’s key bottleneck
A group of researchers has identified the key stumbling block of a common solid-state hydrogen material, paving the way for...
Automated optical inspection of FAST’s reflector surface using drones and computer vision
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), also known as the “China Sky Eye”, is the world's largest single-dish radio...
How did the Butterfly Nebula get its wings? It’s complicated
Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel — becoming...
Researchers devise a new way to control ‘3D’ effects in chemical reactions
Researchers have observed steric effects—the interactions of molecules depending on their spatial orientation (not just between their electrons involved in...
Aging | Transcriptomic analysis of human ALS skeletal muscle reveals a disease-specific pattern of dysregulated circRNAs
“In this work, we have identified distinct patterns of circRNA expression in human ALS muscle tissue, many appearing to be...
Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Washington, DC—The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by...
Agricultural droughts will continue across water-scarce Central Asia: Study
A severe agriculture drought swept Central Asia in 2021 in its early growing season, causing mass die-offs of crops and...
More stable states of quantum computers
Quantum computers can more rapidly process large amounts of data, because they carry out many computation steps in parallel. The...
New, £8 million Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory will help UK meet net-zero ambitions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Image credit: Ian Wallman. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New, £8 million Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory will help...
New facility at KIT produces carbon out of air
Germany is progressing on its way to climate neutrality – and has to close carbon cycles in its industries as...
