Chemistry
UT Arlington team collaborates with Princeton group on plasma flows
DOE grant to fund UTA-Princeton collaboration on laser diagnostics in plasma flowsCredit: UT Arlington University of Texas at Arlington doctoral...
High fat or ‘ketogenic’ diets could prevent, reverse heart failure
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could...
Light on efficiency loss in organic solar cells
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Insight into energy losses that affect the conversion of light into electricity could help...
Odds are good for unique 2D compound
Perovskites synthesized at Rice University show potential for valleytronics applicationsCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Engineers...
How cells use mechanical tension sensors to interact with their environment
Credit: Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and Mechanobiology/The Rockefeller University Actin is among the most abundant proteins in cells, and it...
Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got way easier
New ultra-efficient catalyst can recycle old cooking oil into biodiesel and turn food scraps into high-value complex moleculesCredit: RMIT University...
Tiny golden bullets could help tackle asbestos-related cancers
Credit: Arsalan Azad Gold nanotubes - tiny hollow cylinders one thousandth the width of a human hair - could be...
Land management in forest and grasslands: How much can we intensify?
A first assessment of the effects of land management on the links between biodiversity, ecosystem functions and ecosystem servicesCredit: Pete...
Data reveals evidence of molecular absorption in the atmosphere of a hot Neptune
Credit: Ethen Schmidt, Kansas University An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare...
Aged cell variations may control health and onset of age-related diseases
Credit: Professor Mitsuyoshi Nakao Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have proposed that cellular senescence variations during the aging process could...
A heart-breast cancer-on-a-chip monitoring system
Dual-organ system enables the measurement of cardiac toxicity arising from breast cancer chemotherapyCredit: Khademhosseini Laboratory (LOS ANGELES) - Breast cancer...
High-thermoresistant biopolyimides become water-soluble like starch
Credit: JAIST This is the first report for the syntheses of water-soluble polyimides which are Interestingly derived from bio-based resources,...
Concrete structure’s lifespan extended by a carbon textile
Construction costs reduced by 40%, while improving fire resistanceCredit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) The Korea...
Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation...
Stars and planets grow up together as siblings
ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS 63Credit: MPE/D. Segura-Cox, Herschel data from ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/PACS/D. Arzoumanian Astronomers have found compelling...
RUDN University chemist created a catalyst from orange peel for organic compounds production
Credit: RUDN University N-heterocycles are organic substances used in the chemical industry and medicine. To produce them, expensive catalysts made...
Protective shield: Membrane-attached protein protects bacteria & chloroplasts from stress
IM30 loses its complex ring structure under stress conditions and forms a protective carpet on the membrane surface / Surface...
Not all cats are grey in the dark!
Using two mode-locked femtosecond lasers and a single photon counting detector, scientists have recorded broad spectra with close to one...
Fish exposed to even small amounts of estrogen produce fewer males
UC biologist is studying water quality downstream of sewage treatment plantsCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Water tainted with even a small...
Cyanobacteria: Small candidates as great hopes for medicine and biotechnology
Credit: Paul D'Agostino In order to unlock the genetic potential of unusual cyanobacteria for the production of new active agents...
