Chemistry
Photoexpansion: Bio-based polyesters hard film
Scientists established a new concept of "photoexpansion" using microfabricated polycinnamate hard films revealed by time-resolved IR spectroscopyCredit: Image courtesy: Tatsuo...
Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to jump-start search for new malaria drugs
Credit: WEHI, Australia Potential new antimalarial drug candidates are being developed through an extended drug-discovery collaboration between Australian medical research...
SMART breakthrough in materials discovery enables ‘twistronics’ for bulk systems
The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new...
Two EU grants of up to NOK 25 million to Norwegian researchers
Two European Research Council's Advanced Grants will fund robot research, advanced chemistryCredit: Kai Dragland, NTNU Two professors from the Norwegian...
Here comes the sun: Tethered-balloon tests ensure safety of new solar-power technology
Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and "concentrated"...
ALMA discovers rotating infant galaxy with help of natural cosmic telescope
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a...
Next generation of swimming biobots can self-train, showing striking speed and strength
Credit: IBEC Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological entities have achieved throughout millennia of evolution - actions like...
From pollutant to resource: WVU scientists push rare earth element technologies closer to production
Credit: WVU Water researchers at West Virginia University hope to turn a pollutant - acid mine drainage - into a...
Stem cell therapy promotes recovery from stroke and dementia in mice
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Science Translational Medicine A one-time injection of an experimental stem cell therapy can repair...
Lighting it up: Fast material manipulation through a laser
Credit: © Beaulieu Making the speed of electronic technology as fast as possible is a central aim of contemporary materials...
Scientists find CO2-rich liquid water in ancient meteorite
Scientists detect small pockets of carbon dioxide-rich liquid water in a meteorite dating from the early solar systemCredit: Dr. Akira...
A “finger phantom” to train treatment of trigger finger using ultrasound guidance
This 3D-printed anatomical finger model is a low-cost ultrasound training tool for procedural guidance in corticosteroid injections.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala....
Direct observation of the ad- and desorption of guest atoms into a mesoporous host
Battery electrodes, storage devices for gases, and some catalyst materials have tiny functional pores that can accommodate atoms, ions, and...
New process breaks down biodegradable plastics faster
Invention could solve waste management challenges on the battlefieldCredit: Courtesy University of California, Berkeley RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- With...
Bubble with titanium trigger titanic explosions
Credit: NASA/CXC/RIKEN/T. Sato et al.; NuSTAR: NASA/NuSTAR Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This...
To design truly compostable plastic, scientists take cues from nature
New technology could steer plastics from landfills, oceans -- and into your backyard compost binCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Ting...
Biomedical sciences researcher gets $2.3 million grant to study inflammation in infectious diseases
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Jian-Dong Li, professor and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University,...
Vibrational microscopy goes super resolution
Credit: by Hanqing Xiong†, Naixin Qian†, Yupeng Miao, Zhilun Zhao, Chen Chen, Wei Min. It has been a long pursuit...
Identification of the wettability of graphene layers at the molecular level
Scientists improve the understanding of graphene interface properties at microscopic levelsCredit: Institute for Basic Science Graphene is a two-dimensional material...
Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Credit: Credit: ICRAR / Curtin University. Astronomers have discovered a pulsar--a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves...
