Chemistry
Montreal astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are “water worlds,”...
An X-ray step towards superfast nanoelectronics
When a material with magnetic properties, constructed from appropriately selected layers, is illuminated by a pulse from an X-ray laser,...
Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener
The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude...
The front end of SEL (Station of Extreme Light) 100 PW laser facility in Shanghai
Ultra-high intensity, ultrafast femtosecond lasers, with peak powers at a level of 10 petawatt (PW) or even higher, have led...
Measuring times in billionths of a billionth of a second
How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds...
New 3D-printing ink could make cultured meat more cost-effective
Cultured meat (also known as cell-based or lab-grown meat) is a promising, more environmentally friendly alternative to meat produced from...
Confining quarks
A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic...
Laser controls ultra-fast liquid switch
Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switchCredit: © Adrian Buchmann Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switch All...
USTC make breakthroughs in atomistic neural network representations for chemical dynamics simulations
A team led by Prof. JIANG Bin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made a series...
Chaos gives the quantum world a temperature
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed - but it is not...
Increasing forest cover in the Eifel region 11,000 years ago resulted in the local loss of megafauna
Herds of megafauna, such as mammoth and bison, have roamed the prehistoric plains in what is today's Central Europe for...
Princeton Chemistry creates quantum dots at room temp using lab-designed protein
Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that...
When combined, a novel LSD1 inhibitor and an existing therapy enhance each other’s anti-cancer effects
A Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) research team has developed novel compounds that show early promise at fighting the...
Particles of light may create fluid flow, data-theory comparison suggests
UPTON, NY—A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University...
New study sheds light on boric acid transport and excretion in marine fish
Marine fishes live in highly saline environments with ionic concentrations that are vastly different from their blood plasma. Seawater contains...
VLA and ALMA study Jupiter and Io
While the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) frequently...
Celeritas code will accelerate high energy physics simulations with supercomputers
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading a new project to ensure that the fastest...
Producing ‘green’ energy — literally — from living plant ‘bio-solar cells’
Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they’re not often considered to be a good...
Flying snakes help scientists design new robots
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2022 – Robots have been designed to move in ways that mimic animal movements, such as walking...
Watching water droplets merge on the international space station
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2022 – Understanding how water droplets spread and coalesce is essential for scenarios in everyday life, such...
