Chemistry
Gaia: astronomers to release most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC On 3 December an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars...
Cooling electronics efficiently with graphene-enhanced heat pipes
Credit: Ya Liu/Johan Liu/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that graphene-based heat pipes...
Understanding bacteria’s metabolism could improve biofuel production
Study reveals how cells control what they produce after eatingCredit: PNNL A new study reveals how bacteria control the chemicals...
Artificial intelligence collaboration seeking to hasten COVID-19 insights
Credit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals and researchers have been confined...
Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
Physicists report accelerated electrons linked with cosmic raysCredit: NASA/JPL More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are...
RUDN University physicists described a new type of amorphous solid bodies
Credit: RUDN University Many substances with different chemical and physical properties, from diamonds to graphite, are made up of carbon...
Nanomaterials enable dual-mode heating and cooling device
Device could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20% in the USCredit: Po-Chun Hsu, Duke Engineering DURHAM, N.C. - Engineers...
New platform generates hybrid light-matter excitations in highly charged graphene
Columbia researchers are the first to use static charge between 2D atomic layers to provide a new route for generating...
KIT and Audi are working on recycling method for automotive plastics
Closed loop for plastics from automotive engineering: Recycled plastics are processed to pyrolysis oil which can then be used for...
Protein molecules in cells function as miniature antennas
Credit: Credit: Petr Pachl / IOCB Prague Researchers led by Josef Lazar of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry...
A French team has improved the measurement of a fundamental physical constant
Credit: Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa et Tatsumi Aoyama The validation and application of theories in physics require the measurement of...
Cell membranes in super resolution
Credit: (Picture: Sauer group / University of Würzburg) Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables the imaging of cells and their components with...
Researchers validate theory that neutrinos shape the universe
Credit: Kavli IPMU The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long...
Electronic waste on the decline, new study finds
Older, bulkier electronics are disappearing from the waste stream, with ramifications for the future of e-waste recycling.Credit: Yale School of...
SMART researchers develop plant nanobionic sensor to monitor arsenic levels in soil
For the first time, researchers from SMART have engineered a living plant-based sensor for the detection of arsenic in the...
Carbon dioxide converted to ethylene — the ‘rice of the industry’
Understanding intermediates of the electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene. Encouraging catalyst design-a key component of CO2 utilization using renewable energy.Credit:...
Research suggests our galaxy’s brightest gamma-ray binary system may be powered by a magnetar star
Credit: Kavli IPMU A team of researchers led by members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of...
Natural three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal
Credit: by Chang Li, Xuping Wang, Yang Wu, Fei Liang, Feifei Wang, Xiangyong Zhao, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang Nonlinear photonic...
New butterfly-inspired hydrogen sensor is powered by light
Light-activated sensor delivers precision results at room temperatureCredit: RMIT University Inspired by the surface of butterfly wings, researchers have developed...
Scientists invent a new type of microscope that can see through an intact skull
The microscope uses a combination of hardware and software-based adaptive optics to reconstruct object imageCredit: IBS Non-invasive microscopic techniques such...
