Chemistry
Researchers say space atomic clocks could help uncover the nature of dark matter
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be...
An international team of researchers has successfully characterized the earliest galaxies in the Universe
An international team of astrophysicists, including Prof. Rennan Barkana from the Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv...
AIP Publishing announces winners of the 2022 APL Materials Excellence in Research Award
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2022 – AIP Publishing is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 APL Materials Excellence in...
Zinc batteries offer greater safety, but many improvements needed to compete with lithium
Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading yet fire-prone lithium-ion cousins, but researchers have concluded...
Kibble-Zurek mechanism for nonequilibrium phase transitions
Phase transitions describe various phenomena around us, from water turning into ice to magnetic transitions to the superconducting transition where...
Broken symmetries provide opportunities for thermal emission management
Radiative heat transfer is a ubiquitous physical process in our universe. Any object with a temperature above absolute zero exchanges...
New analysis approach could help boost sensitivity of large telescopes
WASHINGTON — Some of the largest and most sophisticated telescopes ever made are under construction at the Simons Observatory in...
An exotic interplay of electrons
Water that simply will not freeze, no matter how cold it gets – a research group involving the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf...
Aging | Glutaminase inhibitors rejuvenate human skin via clearance of senescent cells: a study using a mouse/human chimeric model
“Therefore, senescent cell eliminators for aging skin cells may be an effective option for treating skin aging.”Credit: 2022 Takaya et...
Making sense of coercivity in magnetic materials with machine learning
Soft magnetic materials, i.e., materials that can be easily magnetized and demagnetized, play an essential role in transformers, generators, and...
Predicting new quantum echoes: Ultrafast lightwave control of electrons in crystals
The quantum realm of atomic particles is embedded with randomness. Still, precise control of quantum systems, such as quantum computers,...
Plants can adapt their lignin using “chemically encoding” enzymes to face climate change
A new study shows how plants “encode” specific chemistries of their lignin to grow tall and sustain climate changes: each...
A sustainable path for energy-demanding photochemistry
Many photochemical processes rely on UV light from inefficient or toxic light sources that the LED technology cannot replace for...
CityU develops two novel hydrogen production catalysts based on mineral gel and “crystalline-amorphous” dual-phase nano-aluminium alloy
Clean hydrogen energy is a good alternative to fossil fuels and is critical for achieving carbon neutrality. Researchers around the...
Integrated platform promises to accelerate drug discovery process
Many successful drugs have their origins in natural sources such as plants, fungi, and bacteria, but screening natural products to...
Automated chemical reaction prediction: Now in stereo
Automated reaction path search method predicts accurate stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions using only target molecule structure.Credit: Tsuyoshi Mita et al....
Researchers awarded $2.1M to study muscles
Nov. 30, 2022Credit: Brooke Coupal for UMass Lowell Nov. 30, 2022 Media contacts: Emily Gowdey-Backus, director of media relations,...
Symmetry-protected Majorana edge modes produced on Google’s quantum computer
Physicists at Google Quantum AI have used their quantum computer to study a type of effective particle that is more...
Advancing light-driven micromotors
Motion is everywhere in living systems and is necessary for mechanical functions in artificial systems, such as robots and machines....
Small asteroids are probably young
Credit: © Courtesy of Martin Jutzi The Hayabusa2 spacecraft was developed in order to study the history of the...
