Chemistry
How do slow anomalies beneath subducting slabs affect giant megathrust earthquakes?
Credit: IOCAS Earthquakes and volcanoes in subduction zones may cause great human catastrophe. Previous studies on subduction zone structure and...
Experimental proof for Zeeman spin-orbit coupling in antiferromagnetics
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS A NUST MISIS professor was part of an international research team that has found evidence for...
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI MUNICH -- The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion...
Simple robots, smart algorithms
Credit: Shengkai Li, Georgia Tech Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at...
Professor Amro M. Farid receives 2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Australia
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth Amro M. Farid, associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and research affiliate in the department of mechanical...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative...
Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) When the James Webb Space Telescope, despite repeated delays, finally launches in...
Hubble celebrates 31st birthday with giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a...
‘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...
