Chemistry
‘Planar and curved’ pyrrole-fused azacoronenes
Effect of 3D sructures on π-electron functionsCredit: Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University Recently study on synthetic approaches...
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth
Credit: Credit: Deng et al (2021) Geophysical Research Letters/AGU WASHINGTON-- Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause...
Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed...
Toward new solar cells with active learning
Credit: © Kunkel/FHI How can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Scientists from the Fritz Haber...
Inhibitory effect of strawberry geranium on inflammatory response in skin keratinocytes
Credit: Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd Strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera) has been used in Japan as a herbal medicine to treat...
Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean
Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide...
Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas
Credit: by Wenqi Zhao, Xiaochaoran Tian, Zhening Fang, Shiyi Xiao, Meng Qiu, Qiong He, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li, Yuanbo Zhang,...
Patching up your health
Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user's pulse and blood...
Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse
Rice chemists show ions' staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful propertyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (April 22, 2021)...
C-Path opens access to Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium database
Database will allow sharing of individual-level data with the goal of accelerating therapy development for Duchenne muscular dystrophyCredit: C-Path TUCSON,...
Scientists uncover structure of light-driven enzyme with potential biofuel applications
Derived from microscopic algae, the enzyme converts fatty acids into starting ingredients for solvents and fuelsCredit: Damien Sorigue/Universite Aix-Marseille Although...
Stress test finds cracks in the resistance of harmful hospital bugs
Credit: John Innes Centre Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces...
Uniquely sharp X-ray view
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking...
Multimillion euro funding for the search for ‘new physics’
Prof. Dr. Piet O. Schmidt receives ERC Advanced Grant from the EU -- 2.5 million euros for a five-year projectCredit:...
‘Stickiness’ key to better diagnostics and pharmaceuticals
Credit: The University of Queensland The 'stickiness', or viscosity, of microscopic liquids can now be measured thousands of times faster...
Ulf-G. Meißner receives an ERC Advanced Grant
The European Union is funding the physics professor at the University of Bonn with about 2.3 million eurosCredit: © Volker...
Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles
New weapons against antibiotic resistanceCredit: Empa In the arms race "mankind against bacteria", bacteria are currently ahead of us. Our...
Transport phenomena at the nanoscale
Credit: Ella Maru Studio (https://scientific-illustrations.com) Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a...
Intrinsic in-plane nodal chain and generalized quaternion charge protected nodal link in photonics
Credit: by Dongyang Wang, Biao Yang, Qinghua Guo, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lingbo Xia, Xiaoqiang Su, Wen-Jie Chen, Jiaguang Han, Shuang Zhang,...
Under pressure: Manipulating protein-mimicking molecules with hydrostatic pressure
Credit: Chemical Science Stimulus-responsive supramolecular structures have emerged as an alternative to conventional ones, owing to their applications in sensing,...
