Chemistry
A rock with many perspectives
Credit: Schulz, GFZ The Alum Shale of Northern Europe not only has an eventful history of formation, connected with the...
Geneticists reveal how mutation causes childhood cancer; use drug to reverse its effects
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a...
Defect engineering assisting in high-level anion doping towards fast charge transfer kinetic
Credit: ©Science China Press The research team of Prof. Xiaobo Ji and associate Prof. Guoqiang Zou has proposed an ingenious...
New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants
International consortium offers novel insight into the reproductive evolution of land plants, in new study published in Nature PlantsCredit: Mette...
DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins
Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release...
UCI scientists make X-ray vision-like camera to rapidly retrieve 3D images
Tech can visualize various materials, structures with detailed chemical informationCredit: Dmitry Fishman, Eric Potma, David Knez / UCI Irvine, Calif.,...
Unravelling the knotty problem of the Sun’s activity
Credit: MacTaggart et al. A new approach to analysing the development of magnetic tangles on the Sun has led to...
Spotted: An exoplanet with the potential to form moons
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al. Cambridge, MA ¬- Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have helped...
Sandia designs better batteries for grid-scale energy storage
New molten sodium batteries operate at lower temperatures using low-cost materialsCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --...
Chromosomes separation under focus
A UNIGE team has identified important regulatory mechanisms of the protein responsible for chromosome separation during cell division.Credit: © UNIGE...
“Magic-angle” trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.Credit: Courtesy of Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,...
The weather forecast for Venus
Space-based infrared imaging reveals the nighttime weather on VenusCredit: © 2021 JAXA/Imamura et al. Little is known about the weather...
Using ultra-low temperatures to understand high-temperature superconductivity
A surprising discovery at TU Wien could help solve the riddle of high-temperature superconductivity: A famous "strange metal" turned out...
Print perovskite solar cells
Credit: ©Science China Press To reach the target of carbon neutral, a transition from fossil energy to renewable energy generation...
Astrophysicist outlines plans for the gravitational wave observatory on the moon
Credit: Karan Jani THE IDEA Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series of studies that make the first case...
Cool flames created during a first for International Space Station research
New research conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory in June 2021 has now achieved another first for microgravity flame researchCredit: NASA...
Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs
Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory...
New study investigates formation of dangerous compounds by e-cigarettes
Credit: Yeongkwan Son/DRI. Scientists with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Organic Analytical Laboratory in Reno, Nev., led by Andrey Khlystov,...
New technology shows promise in detecting, blocking grid cyberattacks
Credit: Chris Morgan, Idaho National Laboratory Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory and New Mexico-based Visgence Inc. have designed and demonstrated...
Using snakes to monitor Fukushima radiation
Researchers placed tiny GPS trackers on rat snakes to track their movements at FukishimaCredit: Hannah Gerke Ten years after one...
