Chemistry
Do your homework to prep for the 2023 and 2024 eclipses
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2023 – This year and next, Americans will have the extraordinary opportunity to witness two solar eclipses...
Squeezing data from a diamond sandwich
For decades, scientists sought a way to apply the outstanding analytical capabilities of neutrons to materials under pressures approaching those...
The ultra-fast space winds that shape the evolution of galaxies
They are called UFOs, but aliens have nothing to do with them. They are the ultra-fast outflows: space winds that emerge from...
XFELs show the final milliseconds of oxygen formation
For the first time, scientists have been able to see the crucial final step in the reaction cycle of Photosystem...
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers enhance thermoelectricity with guided impurity position control
Thermoelectric materials, substances that convert temperature difference into electricity, find a multitude of applications involving the conversion of waste heat...
Quantum entanglement of photons doubles microscope resolution
Using a “spooky” phenomenon of quantum physics, Caltech researchers have discovered a way to double the resolution of light microscopes.Credit:...
A touch-responsive fabric armband – for flexible keyboards, wearable sketchpads
It's time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology – a fabric armband that’s actually...
Toys demonstrate how biological machines move
By connecting small self-propelling toys in a chain, researchers at the UvA Institute of Physics have found the key to...
GAME-Net: a graph neural network for fast evaluation of the adsorption energy in heterogeneous catalysis
Tarragona (Spain), May 2nd 2023 – Achieving sustainability goals will require the use of feedstocks such as plastics and biomass...
Researchers develop clever algorithm to improve our understanding of particle beams in accelerators
Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly...
More than a decade after the theory of interdependent networks was introduced, researchers establish the first physics laboratory benchmark for its manifestation
In 2010 Prof. Shlomo Havlin and collaborators published an article in the journal Nature proposing that the abrupt electricity failure...
Efficient synthesis of indole derivatives, an important component of most drugs, allows the development of new drug candidates
A research group at Nagoya University in Japan has successfully developed an ultrafast and simple synthetic method for producing indole...
Towards a sustainable superconductor technology with magnesium diboride super magnets
Magnesium diboride (MgB2), a binary compound, behaves as a superconductor – a substance that offers no resistance to electric current...
Tianwen-1: Zhurong Rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars
The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of...
El Niño–Southern Oscillation correlates well with following-summer cloud-to-ground lightning in China
Large-scale circulation anomalies are a key factor in the transportation of water vapor and changes in climate. For tropical and...
Review article on asymmetric synthesis using arynes
Arynes, synthetic intermediates in which a portion of the benzene ring is a triple bond, have been applied in various...
Unraveling the mathematics behind wiggly worm knots
For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons — to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics....
Local holographic transformations: tractability and hardness
Counting problems arise in many different fields, e.g., statistical physics, economics and machine learning. In order to study the complexity...
How spheres become worms
Hydrogels? Many people use these substances without knowing it. As superabsorbents in nappies, for example, hydrogels absorb a lot of...
Newly developed hydrogel nanocomposite for the mass production of hydrogen
A research team led by Prof. HYEON Taeghwan at the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science...
