Chemistry
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...
Simulations show weak electrical pulses could treat atrial and ventricular fibrillations
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2022 – Atrial and ventricular fibrillations are dangerous heart arrhythmias that claim millions of lives each year....
UMaine-led study shows mountain glacier melting is linked to shifting westerlies and likely to accelerate
The combination of global atmospheric warming and westerly winds shifting toward the poles will likely speed up the recession of...
Increasing the global bandwidth of optical communications
WASHINGTON – The Optica Foundation today issued details on the information research being funded by its 20th Anniversary Challenge. From photonic...
Bifunctional flexible electrochromic supercapactiors were successfully fabricated
Researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology and Southern University of Science and Technology have fabricated bifunctional flexible electrochromic energy-storage...
Molecular shape-shifting
The concept of remodeling is familiar to most people: those who have ever played with Lego bricks know that many...
UPNA/NUP researchers manage to remotely manipulate a composite material by means of heat and magnetic fields “with an unprecedented level of control”
Researchers from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA/NUP), that belong to the Smart Cities (ISC) and InaMat2 institutes, have remotely...
Discovery overturns major assumptions in crystal photochemistry!
Stimuli-responsive materials, whose physical properties change in response to external stimuli such as light and heat, are being widely studied...
How plants protect themselves from oxidative stress during iron uptake – and why this is also important for humans
Iron is a critical micronutrient for the survival of plants and humans, yet too much iron can also be toxic....
Antihelium nuclei as messengers from the depths of the galaxy
How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter plays an essential role. However, as...
