Chemistry

February 7, 2026

Scientists find way to navigate a heavy uphill climb

Tiny motors behave like rock climbersCredit: Image courtesy of Jun Zhang, NYU's Courant Institute and NYU's Department of Physics. A...

Heisenberg under the microscope

Credit: © Lorenzo Magrini/Constanze Bach/Aspelmeyer Group/University of Vienna A football is not a quantum particle. There are crucial differences between...

Metal-based molecules show promise against the build-up of Alzheimer’s peptides

Credit: Imperial College London In lab tests, Imperial researchers have created a metal-based molecule that inhibits the build-up of a...

New Argonne study puts charge into drive for sustainable lithium production

Credit: (Image by SQM.) An important new study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory...

Opening the gate to the next generation of information processing

Credit: (Image by Xufeng Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory.) Many of us swing through gates every day -- points of entry...

Lean and mean: Building a multifunctional pressure sensor with 3D printing technology

Scientists develop a 3D-printed pressure sensor embedded with a temperature sensor from conductive carbon-based composites.Credit: DGIST The treatment of many...

Solar radio signals could be used to monitor melting ice sheets

Credit: Image credit: Sean Peters The sun provides a daunting source of electromagnetic disarray - chaotic, random energy emitted by...

A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery

Giant explosion in space illuminates thousand-year mysteryCredit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory Dr. Iair Arcavi, a Tel Aviv University researcher...

Jets pose many riddles

Credit: (Image collage: Matthias Kadler (JMU); based on individual images by C. Fromm (JMU), A. Baczko (MPIfR), R. Perley and...

Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells

Researchers have found a way to enhance radiation therapy using novel iodine nanoparticlesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iCeMS Cancer cell death...

Physicists describe sun’s electric field

Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning...

Baylor study evaluates biodiversity impacts of alternative energy strategies

Baylor researcher Ryan McManamay considers ecosystem footprint of climate mitigation energy pathwaysCredit: Robert Rogers, Baylor University WACO, Texas (July 13,...

Microcrystal electron diffraction supports a new drug development pipeline

Credit: Bruhn, J. et al. Front. Mol. Biosci., 2021 8, 354. CAMBRIDGE July 13, 2021 - To date, solving structures...

Galactic gamma ray bursts predicted last year show up right on schedule

Sherlock Holmes story gives clue to successful prediction of bursts from nearby magnetarCredit: Mikhail Denissenya, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan Magnetars are...

Long-term memory setup requires a reliable delivery crew

Synaptic plasticity depends on molecular hauler KIF5C, carrier of more than 650 RNAs, study findsCredit: Scott Wiseman for Scripps Research...

High performance polarization sensitive photodetectors on 2D β-InSe