Chemistry
URI researchers develop new test for coronavirus, launch clinical trial
Non-invasive saliva test increases access, is accurate, simple and cost-effectiveCredit: (URI photo/Patrick Luce) KINGSTON, R.I. - March 16, 2021 -...
Machine learning can identify cancerous cells by their acidity
Using a special dye, cells are colored according to their pH, and a machine learning algorithm can detect changes in...
The bald truth – altered cell divisions cause hair thinning
Credit: Department of Stem Cell Biology,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify a novel mechanism underlying hair...
University of Utah scientists plumb the depths of the world’s tallest geyser
Credit: Courtesy of Sin-Mei Wu/University of Utah When Steamboat Geyser, the world's tallest, started erupting again in 2018 in Yellowstone...
Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
New experimental findings cast in doubt 90-year-old theoretical model of the transition state in chemical reactionsCredit: Illustration: Lydie Leung TORONTO,...
Crucial step in formation of deadly brain diseases discovered
For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like...
Faster drug discovery through machine learning
New technique speeds up calculations of drug molecules' binding affinity to proteins.Credit: Image courtesy of MIT News, Xinqiang Ding and...
There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
UChicago study finds way that hot, rocky planets in other systems could form and keep atmospheresCredit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol...
Twisting, flexible crystals key to solar energy production
Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy propertiesCredit: ORNL/Jill Hemman DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers...
How do good metals go bad?
New measurements have solved a mystery in solid state physics: How is it that certain metals do not seem to...
Debris of stellar explosion found at unusual location
eROSITA space telescope finds largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-raysCredit: eROSITA/MPE (X-ray), CHIPASS / SPASS / N. Hurley-Walker, ICRAR-Curtin...
Researchers present spontaneous sparse learning for PCM-based memristor neural networks
Credit: UNIST An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel technology that could improve the learning...
Two UNIST faculty members elected as 2020 KAST fellows
Credit: UNIST Two faculty members at UNIST have been elected 2021 Fellows of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology...
Sweden’s quantum computer project shifts up a gear
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is almost doubling the annual budget of the research initiative Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology,...
Wider horizons for highly ordered nanohole arrays
More transition metals available to make ordered porous metallic oxide thin filmsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from...
Scientists sketch aged star system using over a century of observations
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri...
Traces of Earth’s early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks
Credit: Hanika Rizo New research led by the University of Cambridge has found rare evidence - preserved in the chemistry...
Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances
Nanomaterials of perovskite dispersed in hexane and irradiated by laser; light emission by these materials is intense thanks to resistance...
Astronomers detect a black hole on the move
Astronomers have detected a moving supermassive black holeCredit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black...
New proteins ‘out of nothing’
International team of researchers investigates how evolution forms the structure and function of a newly emerged protein in fliesCredit: Adam...
