Chemistry
Towards High-Quality Manganese Oxide Catalysts with Large Surface Areas
Manganese oxides have received much attention from materials scientists due to their widespread applications including electrodes, catalysts, sensors, supercapacitors, and...
New study by researchers from Pusan National University explores the prevalence of heatwaves in East Asia
Described as periods of excessively high temperatures, heatwaves have a devastating impact on human life, agriculture, and water resources. Weather...
Do fish suffer from oxygen starvation?
Larger fishes are more likely to experience oxygen deficiency in warming water than smaller species. The same applies to fish...
SWEET RESEARCH: CHEMISTS UNLOCK SECRETS OF MOLTEN SALTS
A chemist at the University of Cincinnati has come up with a novel way to study the thermodynamic properties of...
Research team wins NIH prize for plan to accelerate advances in spinal stimulation through autonomic neuromodulation
East Hanover, NJ. July 22, 2022. The pioneering collaborative work being performed by Kessler Foundation scientists in the Tim and...
Light polarization creates art, explains mathematical concepts
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2022 – The polarization of light underpins a variety of recent technological innovations, including 3D cinema and...
Porous crystals bind fluorine-containing greenhouse gases
Emissions of greenhouse gases contribute significantly to global warming. Not only carbon dioxide (CO2) but also fluorine-containing gases – including...
Unravel the mystery of the quasar’s “anisotropic” effects on surrounding gas
The team* led by Prof. Toru Misawa of the School of General Education, Shinshu University found for the first time...
Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 20, 2022—New research refining the amount of sunlight absorbed by black carbon in smoke from wildfires...
UMass Amherst emerges as offshore wind workforce training leader with newest grant award
AMHERST, Mass. – The Baker-Polito Administration and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) recently announced that a team led by...
Buckyballs on gold are less exotic than graphene
Graphene consists of carbon atoms that crosslink in a plane to form a flat honeycomb structure. In addition to surprisingly...
Flexible method for shaping laser beams extends depth-of-focus for OCT imaging
WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a new method for flexibly creating various needle-shaped laser beams. These long, narrow beams can...
Majority of early career researchers in physical science want to publish OA, but face financial barriers
Findings are from a new global study ‘OA in physics: researcher perspectives’ commissioned by leading learned society physics publishers Credit: n/a...
Biology’s hardest working pigments and ‘MOFs’ might just save the climate
Some of the economic sectors that are the hardest to decarbonize would benefit from the emergence of substantially more efficient...
Generating power where seawater and river water meet
Scientists have known since the 1950s that it is theoretically possible to generate electricity through the movement of water at...
Microbial ´dark matter´: Centuries-old lava caves of Hawaiʻi Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial species
The lava caves, lava tubes and geothermal vents on the big island of Hawaiʻi have higher bacterial diversity than scientists...
ATS Research Program awards unrestricted grants for 2021-22
July 21, 2022 –The American Thoracic Society Research Program today announced the five recipients of Unrestricted Grants for the 2021-2022...
Physiological features of Japanese black cattle with high methane production
Japan's agricultural sector produced 32.3 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2022, accounting for 2.8% of the country's total...
Lithiophilic seeds and rigid arrays synergistic induced dendrite-free and stable Li anode towards long-life lithium-oxygen batteries
Recently, Dr. Yue Li and co-workers (from Tianjin University) prepared lithiophilic aluminum oxide (Al2O3) seeds induced rigid carbon nanotube arrays/three-dimensional...
Deep learning for new alloys
When is something more than just the sum of its parts? Alloys show such synergy. Steel, for instance, revolutionized industry...
