Chemistry
Young planets with teenage sun give space studies a lift
New planetary system offers glimpse into how planets evolveCredit: Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center HANOVER, N.H. - February...
Scientists manipulate magnets at the atomic scale
Credit: Lancaster University Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists...
UTEP professor’s study may lead to solutions for overeating
Credit: UTEP Communications. EL PASO, Texas - Science is a step closer to a new response to obesity, thanks in...
Flowers of St. John’s Wort serve as green catalyst
Credit: Julia Naumann Since ancient times, St. John's Wort has been used as a medicinal herb covering a wide range...
Producing more sustainable hydrogen with composite polymer dots
Credit: P-Cat Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, using photocatalytic...
Antitumoral effects of LXR activation
Macrophages that boost tumor growthCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Tumor cells are able to avoid the attack of the immune system...
UrFU Mathematician’s new methods for solving optimal control problem of objects
Mathematician from Ural Federal University Yurii Averboukh, suggests new methods for solving optimal control problem of a group of objects...
Strathclyde physics professor wins international award for contribution to optics
Credit: Fraunhofer UK A Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde has received a prestigious international...
Interaction between iodonium and silver cation was demonstrated for the first time
Credit: Antonio Frontera and Kari Rissanen An international research team led by Professor Kari Rissanen of the University of Jyvaskyla...
Lemurs show there’s no single formula for lasting love
Brain imaging reveals that not all monogamous mammals are 'wired for love' in the same wayCredit: David Haring, Duke Lemur...
Green tea compound aids p53, ‘guardian of the genome’ and tumor suppressor
Research offers new lead for cancer drug discoveryCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An antioxidant found in green tea...
Tuning the circadian clock, boosting rhythms may be key to future treatments and medicines
New article unravels the remarkable relationship between time-of-day and physiologyCredit: Imogen Reekie Irvine, CA - February 11, 2021 - Subconsciously,...
A new quantum switch for electronics
Credit: Oleg Lychkovskiy A Russian physicist and his international colleagues studied a quantum point contact (QCP) between two conductors with...
Astronomers confirm solar system’s most distant known object is indeed Farfarout
Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based...
A new strategy to destroy cancer cells using magnetic nanoparticles and fields
Scientists offered a new method for treating leukemia using nanomaterialsCredit: IKBFU Scientists from Scientific and Educational Center «Smart Materials and...
Hubble uncovers concentration of small black holes
Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, in which stars are packed closely together. They are...
A new way of forming planets
Credit: Image: Jean Favre CSCS. In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of...
Highly efficient metasurface poised to improve communication and biosensing
Nanostructured thin film works over an unprecedented centimeter-scale areaCredit: Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a...
Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars
Remnants of planets with Earth-like crusts have been discovered in the atmospheres of four nearby white dwarf stars by University...
Wafer-scale production of graphene-based photonic devices
Graphene Flagship researchers have devised a wafer-scale fabrication method that paves the way to the next generation of telecom and...
