Chemistry
Exploring pieces of heart muscle that fail to compact
University of Houston researcher awarded $2.5M to study "spongy heart"Credit: University of Houston University of Houston pharmacologist Mingfu Wu has...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and...
Fermented wool is the answer
FAU researchers reveal the secret of the famous Pazyryk carpetCredit: FAU/Dr. Andreas Späth The Pazyryk carpet is the world's oldest...
Volcanoes might light up the night sky of this planet
Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger On Earth, plate tectonics is not only responsible for...
Zinc oxide: key component for the methanol synthesis reaction over copper catalysts
A team of researchers around the Fritz Haber Institute have found out that the important industrial process of methanol production...
This frog has lungs that act like noise-canceling headphones, study shows
Credit: Norman Lee To succeed in mating, many male frogs sit in one place and call to their potential mates....
Metallic state of Ag nanoclusters in oxidative dispersion identified in situ
Credit: DICP Oxidative dispersion has been widely used in the regeneration of sintered metal catalysts as well as the fabrication...
Porous crystal guides reaction to transform CO2
Credit: © 2021 KAUST By embedding a silver catalyst inside a porous crystal, KAUST researchers have improved a chemical reaction...
Performance of methane conversion solid catalyst is predicted by theoretical calculation
Accelerating search for various materials to achieve a carbon-free societyCredit: Atsushi Ishikawa Japanese researchers have developed a simulation method to...
Terahertz waves from electrons oscillating in liquid water
Credit: MBI Ionization of water molecules by light generates free electrons in liquid water. After generation, the so-called solvated electron...
An ultra-degree-of-freedom structured vector beam
Credit: by Yijie Shen Typically, light emitted from standard lasers has a controllable degree of freedom (DoF) which may be...
Protein controlling magnesium identified as therapeutic target for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Patients with liver disease have significantly elevated expression of CNNM4 protein, which modulates magnesium in the liverCredit: CIC bioGUNE An...
New microcomb could help discover exoplanets and detect diseases
Credit: Photo: Mia Halleröd Palmgren, Collage: Yen Strandqvist /Chalmers Tiny photonic devices could be used to find new exoplanets, monitor...
Purdue Research Foundation partners with IdentifySensors Biologics for COVID-19 technology
Credit: Purdue University/Chris Adam WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - IdentifySensors Biologics, a Purdue University-affiliated technology firm developing a rapid diagnostic platform...
Nature: new compound for male contraceptive pill
Dr. Wei Yan discovered a natural compound that exhibits almost ideal male contraceptive effects in pre-clinical studiesCredit: The Lundquist Institute...
Conquering the timing jitters
Credit: (Image by Daniel Haynes and Jörg Harms/Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.) Breakthrough greatly enhances...
Color blindness-correcting contact lenses
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09657 Imagine seeing the world in muted shades -- gray sky, gray grass....
Humans drive most of the ups and downs in freshwater storage at Earth’s surface
Credit: Cooley et al. 2021, Nature Water levels in the world's ponds, lakes and human-managed reservoirs rise and fall from...
UNF professor awarded US patent to fight cancer tumors using synthetic curcumin analogs
Credit: University of North Florida Dr. Kenneth Laali, University of North Florida Presidential Professor of Chemistry, has recently been awarded...
New form of symbiosis discovered
Energy-providing bacterial endosymbiont enables its unicellular eukaryotic host to breathe nitrate, demonstrating that unicellular eukaryotes may acquire endosymbionts to complement...
