Chemistry

A research team led by academician DU Jiangfeng and Prof. RONG Xing from University of Science and Technology of China...

Custom-made molecules designed to be invisible while absorbing near-infrared light

Osaka, Japan – Getting a molecule to do what you want it to do is not always easy. As an...

A million light years and still going

CLEVELAND—In a breakthrough discovery that challenges the conventional understanding of cosmology, scientists at Case Western Reserve University have unearthed new...

Making this Parkinson’s drug is just turtles all the way down (video)

WASHINGTON, June 17, 2024 — L-DOPA is the best drug we have for Parkinson’s disease, but its molecular mirror image,...

Reduction of esters by a novel photocatalyst

June 15, 2024

The sweet smell of strawberries and other fruits is thanks to a chemical compound called ester, which is also found...

Artificial photosynthesis to produce hydrogen peroxide

National University of Singapore (NUS) chemists have developed hexavalent photocatalytic covalent organic frameworks (COFs) which mimic natural photosynthesis for the...

A liquid crystal source of photon pairs

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for quantum physics and quantum technology,...

Novel strategy proposed for all-climate zinc-ion batteries

According to a study published in Advanced Energy Materials, a research team led by Prof. HU Linhua from the Hefei...

25 years of massive fusion energy experiment data completely open on the “cloud”, to be available to everyone

BackgroundCredit: National Institute for Fusion Science Background High-temperature fusion plasma experiments conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) of the...

Rice lab achieves major gains in perovskite solar cell stability

EMBARGOED for release until 1pm U.S. Central Time (2pm Eastern) on June 13, 2024 HOUSTON – (June 13, 2024) –...

Pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the lab

Black holes and neutron stars are among the densest known objects in the universe. Within and around these extreme astrophysical...

Making ferromagnets ready for ultra-fast communication and computation technology

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international team led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has made a significant breakthrough...

Scientists unravel drivers of the global Zinc cycle in our oceans, with implications for a changing climate

The important role of the Southern Ocean in global biological processes and the carbon cycle has been confirmed anew by...

Customised thermal radiation