Chemistry
Nuclear physicists on the hunt for squeezed protons
Nuclear physicists crank up the energy to put the squeeze on the proton and its quarksCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab While...
Scientists investigated more thoroughly Walker breakdown in 3D magnetic nanowires
Credit: FEFU press office Physicists from Russia, Chile, Brazil, Spain, and the UK, have studied how the magnetic properties change...
NTU scientists develop laser system that generates random numbers at ultrafast speeds
Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists has developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred...
Scientists probe electronic angular momentum to a chemical reaction for the first time
Credit: DICP A chemical reaction can be understood in detail at the quantum state-resolved level, through a combined study of...
Harnessing the power of proteins in our cells to combat disease
UNLV scientist Gary Kleiger at the forefront of a potential new drug modality; research published in the journal Nature.Credit: Lonnie...
Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter’s asteroids
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech) After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like...
Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas
New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light sourceCredit: Image...
New signaling pathway in neurons
Credit: (Picture: Changhe Ji / University of Würzburg) Neurodegenerative diseases, such as various forms of senile dementia or amyotrophic lateral...
How SARS-CoV-2’s sugar-coated shield helps activate the virus
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is coated with sugars called glycans, which help it evade the immune system; new...
Antibodies recognize and attack different SARS-CoV-2 spike shapes
The spikes on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, change shapes; new research reveals ways that antibodies can recognize these...
Scientists reveal details of antibodies that work against Zika virus
Research from the California Institute of Technology shows exactly how antibodies stick to and block the Zika virus, which will...
Scientists uncover new details of SARS-CoV-2 interactions with human cells
In order to infect cells, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, needs to insert itself into the membrane of human...
Why some coronavirus strains are more infectious than others
The coronaviruses that cause SARS and COVID-19 have spike proteins that move into 'active' and 'inactive' positions, and new research...
New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering
Shape-changing scaffold for tissue engineeringCredit: Yu Bin Lee New hydrogel-based materials that can change shape in response to psychological stimuli,...
Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during...
Strengthened by chaos, new super-hard materials will stir steel together
Department of Defense project will create AI-materials tools to design recipes for a new class of materials tailored to super-hard,...
A gene provides both protection and destruction
Credit: Ralf Baumeister/University of Freiburg The family of ENDOU enzymes is found in most organisms, yet its functions are only...
UH geologists search for remains of lost ocean beneath earth’s surface
Team awarded 2.5 million CPU hours on NSF-funded supercomputer to conduct researchCredit: University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and...
Accelerator physics: Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are.Credit: Tsinghua...
Nature’s funhouse mirror: understanding asymmetry in the proton
Credit: (Image by Brookhaven National Laboratory.) Asymmetry in the proton confounds physicists, but a new discovery may bring back old...
