Chemistry
Combining best of both worlds for cancer modeling
Tiny devices use samples taken directly from patients to combine in vivo and in vitro testing.Credit: Terry Juang WASHINGTON, January...
Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells
A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature; now...
Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters
Credit: Hurt lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked...
A display that completely blocks off counterfeits
Credit: POSTECH Despite the anticounterfeiting devices attached to luxury handbags, marketable securities, and identification cards, counterfeit goods are on the...
Diamonds need voltage
In addition to heat and high pressure, small electric fields can also play a decisive role in the formation of...
Smooth touchdown: novel camera-based system for automated landing of drone on a fixed spot
Researchers demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missionsCredit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka...
NAS honors Heino Falcke and Sheperd Doeleman with Henry Draper Medal
American National Academy of Sciences honours Heino Falcke and Sheperd Doeleman with the Henry Draper MedalCredit: National Academy of Sciences...
INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to...
The physics behind tumor growth
New theory uses physics to predict the growth stages of cancerous tumorsCredit: Bean, et al. Mol. Cell, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j....
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane...
Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
In an article published in Nature Communications, Brazilian researchers show for the first time that in severe cases of scorpion...
Innovations through hair-thin optical fibres
Study by the University of Bonn shows what miniaturised optical filters make possibleCredit: © Uni Bonn Scientists at the University...
Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production...
Much of Earth’s nitrogen was locally sourced
Rice-led study shows two distinct origins of life-essential element in present-day planetCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2021) - Where...