Chemistry
A breakthrough of the mechanism of energy saving in collective swimming
Credit: College of Engineering, Peking University Professor Xie Guangming's group in the College of Engineering at Peking University has found...
The Charlesworth Group strengthens Hindawi partnership in China
Leading open access publisher Hindawi has extended their partnership with The Charlesworth Group to include digital author marketing in China.Credit:...
The importance of good neighbors in catalysis
Credit: David Albinsson/Chalmers University of Technology Are you affected by your neighbours? So are nanoparticles in catalysts. New research from...
‘Transparent solar cells’ can take us towards a new era of personalized energy
Scientists design novel transparent solar cells using thin silicon films, with efficient power generationCredit: Joel Filipe on Unsplash Today, the...
NIST researchers advance efforts to accurately measure glyphosate pesticide in oats
Credit: J. Murray/NIST Pesticides help farmers increase food production, reduce costly damage to crops, and even prevent the spread of...
Flying through wildfire smoke plumes could improve smoke forecasts
Credit: Brett Palm/University of Washington Wildfires burning in the West affect not only the areas burned, but the wider regions...
Just like us – Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us
Neanderthals introduced solid food in their children's diet at around 5-6 months of ageCredit: ERC project SUCCESS, University of Bologna,...
New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Planetary scientists from Brown University have developed a new remote sensing method for...
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects
Credit: by Wei Jiang, Tan Zheng, Binmin Wu, Hanxue Jiao, Xudong Wang, Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Meng Peng, Hailu Wang,...
Light-modulated graphene-organic heterojunction transistors realizing photocurrent logic changes
Credit: by Jiayue Han, Meiyu He, Ming Yang, Qi Han, Fang Wang, Fang Zhong, Mengjian Xu, Qing Li, He Zhu,...
Rotation of a molecule as an “internal clock”
Measuring ultrafast reactionsCredit: MPI for Nuclear Physics Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear...
New analysis method can lead to better cancer drugs
Credit: Ulf Sirborn. While proteins on the surface of cells are the targets for most drugs, refined methods are needed...
First light on a next-gen astronomical survey toward a new understanding of the cosmos
Groundbreaking all-sky survey will bolster our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxiesCredit: Image Credit: Hector Ibarra Medel, Jon...
GRETA, a 3D gamma-ray detector, gets green light to move forward
Spherical detector will be a centerpiece at Michigan State's facility for rare isotope beamsCredit: GRETA collaboration The effort to construct...
Devil in the defect detail of quantum emissions unravelled
Study helps unlock chemical structure in defects that emit single photonsCredit: Trong Toan Tran Systems which can emit a stream...
Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO: A new way to synthesize hydrocarbons
New method could potentially reduce dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturingCredit: NIST Researchers at the...
Robert Prud’homme to receive new Princeton University award to honor faculty innovators
Prud'homme led the invention of flash nanoprecipitation to encapsulate drugs in nanoparticles for targeted deliveryCredit: Photo by David Kelly Crow....
Specially-adapted drones gather data from unexplored volcanoes to better forecast eruptions
New drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptionsCredit: Matthew Wordell Specially-adapted drones developed by an international team have been...
Five Argonne researchers recognized as 2020 Distinguished Fellows
Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Five leading researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have...
A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness
Credit: Rachel Davidowitz When atoms get extremely close, they develop intriguing interactions that could be harnessed to create new generations...
