Chemistry
US Department of Energy awards $12.5 million to UChicago for new energy frontier research center
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded researchers at the University of Chicago $12.5 million to advance work aimed at finding innovative...
AI spurs scientists to advance materials research
If you apply enough heat to a material, at some point, most things melt, just like ice cream on a...
ROBE Array could let small companies access popular form of AI
HOUSTON – (Aug. 29, 2022) – A breakthrough low-memory technique by Rice University computer scientists could put one of the...
‘Naturally insulating’ material emits pulses of superfluorescent light at room temperature
Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a...
UW researchers bring first underwater messaging app to smartphones
For millions of people who participate in activities such as snorkeling and scuba diving each year, hand signals are the...
Food texture key to eating habits in children with Down syndrome
Children with Down syndrome prefer food with a crispy, oily mouthfeel and don’t like brittle or gooey foods. But those...
Spring forward: Changing climate’s early winter wakeup call is a buzz kill for bumblebees
New research from the University of Ottawa has found the earlier arrival of spring in parts of North America negatively...
Preventing dye aggregation with molten salts to improve solar cell performance
Solar cells are quickly becoming one of the main ways to produce clean electricity in many countries in the world....
Inactivated protein complex linked to Parkinson-like symptoms
Inactivation of a particular protein complex that plays a key role in keeping genes switched off leads to nerve cells...
How scientists designed centered error entropy-based sigma-point Kalman Filter
A spacecraft attitude kinematics model, attitude measurement model, and filter algorithm are three important parts in spacecraft attitude determination, and...
Lithuanians developed a takeaway food package that does not contain a single gram of plastic
Takeaway food became an integral part of our lives. However, despite the convenience of such a service, frequent users have...
Behind the scenes of the $3.7 million hydrogen energy ‘earthshot’ at UVA
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that the University of Virginia will receive $3.7 million to pioneer clean energy...
Quantum heat pump: a new measuring tool for physicists
Physicists from TU Delft, ETH Zürich and the University of Tübingen have built a quantum scale heat pump made from...
Slugs, snails are not alone in causing rat lungworm disease in humans
A review of decades of research revealed more than a dozen kinds of animals in addition to slugs and snails...
Researchers develop new slippery surfaces for photocontrol of droplets
A research team led by Dr. DU Xuemin from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
Seven ORNL technologies win R&D 100 research awards
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2022 R&D 100 Awards, plus...
Understanding outsize role of nanopores
There is an entire aqueous universe hidden within the tiny pores of many natural and engineered materials. Research from the...
Understanding healthy function of tau, protein associated with dementia
In Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative dementias, proteins that normally play a role in healthy brain tissue turn bad, clumping...
DNA analysis shows Griffin Warrior ruled his Greek homeland
Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior...
Perseverance rover retrieves key rocky clues to Mars’ geologic and water history
In its first year exploring Jezero Crater on Mars, the Perseverance rover collected rock samples that scientists anticipate will provide...
