Chemistry
Highly functional membrane developed for producing freshwater from seawater
A desalination membrane laminated with nanosheets featuring 2D nanochannelsCredit: Membrane Engineering Group, Kobe University Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto's research group at...
AI: ensuring that humans remain in the center
KIT coordinates MeKIDI project on digitization of processes in the energy sectorCredit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Valuable support or job killer?...
1 million Euros for black holes made from semimetals
Credit: © pixelwg/Jörg Bandmann One of the central goals is to control the flow of electrons in these materials so...
AI trained to read electric vehicle charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps
Credit: Ha et al./Patterns Although electric vehicles that reduce greenhouse gas emissions attract many drivers, the lack of confidence in...
The seven rocky planets of TRAPPIST-1 seem to have very similar compositions
Precise measurements reveal that the exoplanets of the system discovered by ULiège researchers have remarkably similar densities, which provides new...
Reducing traps increases performance of organic photodetectors
Credit: Christian Körner Organic photodetectors (OPDs) have a huge potential for applications in low-cost imaging, health monitoring and near infrared...
Targeted coating improves graphene oxide membranes for nanofiltration
Credit: LI Sushuang Nanofiltration (NF) is an advanced technology for treating wastewater containing organic micropollutants (OMPs). Recently, a research group...
Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planet
This marks the second time astronomers have ever observed a cloud-free exoplanetCredit: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian...
Bringing atoms to a standstill: NIST miniaturizes laser cooling
Credit: NIST It's cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the...
Combining best of both worlds for cancer modeling
Tiny devices use samples taken directly from patients to combine in vivo and in vitro testing.Credit: Terry Juang WASHINGTON, January...
Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells
A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature; now...
Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters
Credit: Hurt lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked on top...
A display that completely blocks off counterfeits
Credit: POSTECH Despite the anticounterfeiting devices attached to luxury handbags, marketable securities, and identification cards, counterfeit goods are on the...
Diamonds need voltage
In addition to heat and high pressure, small electric fields can also play a decisive role in the formation of...
Smooth touchdown: novel camera-based system for automated landing of drone on a fixed spot
Researchers demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missionsCredit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka...
NAS honors Heino Falcke and Sheperd Doeleman with Henry Draper Medal
American National Academy of Sciences honours Heino Falcke and Sheperd Doeleman with the Henry Draper MedalCredit: National Academy of Sciences...
INL partners with Coreform to improve open-source modeling and simulation tool MOOSE
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Long before an advanced nuclear reactor begins to generate power or another complicated project comes to...
The physics behind tumor growth
New theory uses physics to predict the growth stages of cancerous tumorsCredit: Bean, et al. Mol. Cell, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j....
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane...
Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
In an article published in Nature Communications, Brazilian researchers show for the first time that in severe cases of scorpion...
