Chemistry
High-performance electrocatalysts to propel development of direct ethanol fuel cells
Credit: YANG Jun Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanjing Normal...
The missing trillions
Establishing the true cost of the planet's energy and transport systemsCredit: University of Sussex The hidden social, environmental and health...
Staying in the shade: how cells use molecular motors to avoid bright light
Research team led by the University of Tsukuba discover new component of molecular motors that drive cellular movement in response...
Pumping perovskites into a semiconductor platform
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Heno Hwang Materials called perovskites can be more readily incorporated into silicon-based semiconducting platforms by using...
New skills of Graphene: Tunable lattice vibrations
Credit: K. Höflich/HZB Without electronics and photonics, there would be no computers, smartphones, sensors, or information and communication technologies. In...
Virtually unlimited solar cell experiments
Researchers at Osaka University use machine learning to design and virtually test molecules for organic solar cells, which can lead...
Bottling the world’s coldest plasma
Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion powerCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 1, 2021)...
Boston College physicist Brian Zhou receives NSF CAREER Award
Funding will support spatially imaging the flow of photocurrents inside quantum materialsCredit: Lee Pellegrini/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (3/1/2021) --...
Sensing suns
Astronomers accurately measure the temperature of red supergiant starsCredit: © 2021 Andrew Klinger Red supergiants are a class of star...
C-Path and Global Partners launch Ataxia Consortium
The Critical Path to Therapeutics for the Ataxias will optimize clinical trials for inherited ataxiasCredit: C-Path TUCSON, Ariz., February 26,...
Quantum quirk yields giant magnetic effect, where none should exist
Study opens window into the landscape of extreme topological matterCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 26, 2021)...
Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar systemCredit: Bill Saxton / NSF / AUI...
How photoblueing disturbs microscopy
Credit: Team Markus Sauer / University of Wuerzburg The latest developments in fluorescence microscopy make it possible to image individual...
High- performance 3D printer for titanium structures and In situ synthesis of alloys
3D printer for high-speed printing of titanium structuresCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg...
The GRANTECAN discovers the largest cluster of galaxies known in the early universe
The researchers predict that this structure, which is at a distance of 12.5 billion light years from us, will have...
From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools
Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulsesCredit: Daniel Flamm et al. If...
Samara Polytech scientists have patented the TopCryst.Find_Topology service
It becomes possible to determine the crystal structure topology with the help of the programCredit: @SamaraPolytech Employees of the Samara...
Novel catalysts improve efficiency of urea synthesis at ambient conditions
Credit: ZHANG Guangjin and YUAN Menglei Converting both nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added urea molecules via C-N...
URI researchers: Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Results have implications for life on MarsCredit: Photo courtesy Justine Sauvage NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - February 26, 2021 - A team...
Scientists use Doppler to peer inside cells
Process leads to Scientists use Doppler to peer inside cells, leading to better, faster diagnoses and treatments of infectionCredit: Purdue...
