Chemistry
HKU physicist joins international effort to unveil the behavior of “strange metals”
Credit: The University of Hong Kong The Landau's theory of Fermi liquid (FL) (Note 1), established in the first half...
Creating perfect edges in 2D-materials
Credit: Alexander Ericson/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers...
Molecular design strategy reveals near infrared-absorbing hydrocarbon
Credit: Norihito Fukui Nagoya University researchers have synthesized a unique molecule with a surprising property: it can absorb near infrared...
‘Classified knots’: uOttawa researchers create optical framed knots to encode information
Credit: University of Ottawa In a world first, researchers from the University of Ottawa in collaboration with Israeli scientists have...
Arctic Ocean sediments reveal permafrost thawing during past climate warming
Credit: Björn Eriksson Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can help scientists understand how permafrost responds to climate warming....
University of Arkansas chemist to develop computational models of influenza virus protein
NIH grant will support research to provide a computational framework for developing novel vaccines and therapeutics for the fluCredit: Mahmoud...
Lineage tracing of direct astrocyte-to-neuron conversion for brain repair
Credit: Jinan University Regeneration of functional new neurons to repair injured human brain is a long-term unsolved problem up till...
Energy System 2050: solutions for the energy transition
Research initiative of the Helmholtz Association presents strategies, technologies, and open-source toolsCredit: Pascal Armbruster, KIT To contribute to global climate...
Membranes for capturing carbon dioxide from the air
Researchers in I2CNER, Kyushu University suggest the potential of the advanced gas separation membranes for CO2 extraction from ambient airCredit:...
Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second
Credit: Caltech In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can...
Zeptoseconds: new world record in short time measurement
Physicists from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin track the propagation of light in a moleculeCredit: Sven Grundmann, Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT....
Study reveals most effective drugs for common type of neuropathic pain
Clinical study tested four different types of medications for efficacy, tolerability and adverse effectsCredit: Justin Kelley More than 20 million...
All-terrain microrobot flips through a live colon
Credit: Purdue University video/Elizabeth Niedert and Chenghao Bi WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A rectangular robot as tiny as a few...
Rutgers astronomer receives Packard fellowship for innovative young scientists
Blakesley Burkhart is working to gain a better grasp of how gas and dust become stars and planetsCredit: Courtesy of...
A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too
Adding polymers and fireproofing to a battery's current collectors makes it lighter, safer and about 20% more efficientCredit: Yusheng Ye/Stanford...
Quantum engines with entanglement as fuel?
University of Rochester researcher receives $1 million grant to study quantum thermodynamicsCredit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster...
Sprinkled with power: How impurities enhance a thermoelectric material at the atomic level
Scientists elucidate how antimony impurities improve the performance of magnesium silicide, a promising material for converting waste heat into electricityCredit:...
LiU researchers first to develop an organic battery
Ion-selective electrocatalysis on conducting polymer electrodes -- improving the performance of redox flow batteriesCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at the Laboratory...
New study reveals how the nervous system mutes or boosts sensory information to make behavioral deci
Credit: Yujia Hu, U-M Life Sciences Institute Fruit flies may be able to teach researchers a thing or two about...
Making new materials using AI
Credit: Si-Young Choi (POSTECH) There is an old saying, "If rubber is the material that opened the way to the...
