Chemistry
Discovery of a mechanism for efficient autophagosome formation
Revealing the molecular role of the most famous autophagy factorCredit: © Nobuo N. Noda Drs. Nobuo Noda (Director) and Tatsuro...
Seeing with radio waves
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba use radio-frequency waves to image "spin-locked" defects in diamond with record-breaking resolution, which may...
Reduced vs. standard CT dose for lung nodules in children, young adults with cancer
Reduced-dose CT depicts greater than 90% of lung nodules in children and young adults with cancer, identifying the presence of...
Programmable structures from the printer
Credit: Tiffany Cheng, ICD Universität Stuttgart Researchers at the University of Freiburg and the University of Stuttgart have developed a...
The pressure is off and high temperature superconductivity remains
Development of a new pressure-quench technique demonstrates superconductivity in iron selenide crystals sans pressureCredit: University of Houston In a critical...
First study of nickelate’s magnetism finds a strong kinship with cuprate superconductors
New nickelate materials give scientists an exciting new window into how unconventional superconductors carry electric current with no loss at...
LHAASO’s measurement of Crab Nebula brightness yields new UHE gamma-ray standard
Credit: Image by Institute of High Energy Physics The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), one of China's key...
Study sheds light on mechanism of liposome accumulation in tumors
CU Cancer Center researcher says results could impact how we diagnose, monitor, and treat tumors with liposomes.Credit: CU Cancer Center...
New Alzheimer’s treatment targets identified
Study points to FDA-approved drugs that have potential to slow or reverse brain damageCredit: Washington University School of Medicine A...
Continental pirouettes
Supervolcano fed from Earth's mantle caused crustal plates to rotateCredit: Alisha Steinberger The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated...
Of the same stripe: Turing patterns link tropical fish and bismuth crystal growth
Scientists prove Turing patterns, usually studied in living organisms and chemical systems, also manifest at the nanoscale in monoatomic bismuth...
More ancestral enzyme
Molecular evolution of enzyme beyond recruit hypothesisCredit: Seiya Watanabe, Ehime University The aconitase superfamily currently contains four functional enzymes including...
Bringing chemical production and manufacturing together
Development of a small, flexible and cost-effective acrylonitrile modular reactor could give carbon fiber producers better access to affordable feedstockCredit:...
Unlocking radiation-free quantum technology with graphene
"Heavy fermions" are an appealing theoretical way to produce quantum entangled phenomena, but until recently have been observed mostly in...
Instant COVID sensor to prevent outbreaks and protect communities
Sensor detects COVID-19 and variants on people's breath, even when they are asymptomaticCredit: Soterius RMIT University is collaborating with partners...
Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
Credit: Credit: NASA/Hubble (elliptical galaxy M87), ESA/Hubble & NASA (lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 and the colliding Antennae galaxies), and David...
Quantum particles: Pulled and compressed
Credit: Marc Montagut Very recently, researchers led by Markus Aspelmeyer at the University of Vienna and Lukas Novotny at ETH...
New study helps explain ‘silent earthquakes’ along New Zealand’s North Island
Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry,...
Igniting plasmas in liquids
This is how a nanosecond plasma forms and spreads in water via tunnel effectsCredit: © Damian Gorczany Physicists of Ruhr-Universität...
Beyond 5G: Wireless communications may get a boost from ultra-short collimating metalens
Credit: Takehito Suzuki/ TUAT Screens may be larger on smartphones now, but nearly every other component is designed to be...
