Chemistry
New NIST project to build nano-thermometers could revolutionize temperature imaging
Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possibleCredit: A. Biacchi/NIST Cheaper...
What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tension
Credit: Saeed Jafari Kang and Hassan Masoud/Michigan Tech Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT’s Tony Schmitz elected to ASPE College of Fellows
Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy Tony Schmitz, joint faculty researcher in machining and machine tools...
A new look at sunspots
Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other starsCredit: NASA/SDO NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to...
Turning a hot spot into a cold spot: Fano-shaped local-field responses probed by a quantum dot
Credit: by Juan Xia, Jianwei Tang, Fanglin Bao, Yongcheng Sun, Maodong Fang, Guanjun Cao, Julian Evans, and Sailing He Optical...
Polarimetric parity-time-symmetric photonic system
Credit: by Lingzhi Li, Yuan Cao, Yanyan Zhi, Jiejun Zhang1, Yuting Zou, Xinhuan Feng, Bai-Ou Guan and Jianping Yao Parity-time-symmetric...
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars
Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured...
Spitzer space telescope legacy chronicled in Nature Astronomy
Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar...
UMD researchers use artificial intelligence language tools to decode molecular movements
Algorithms--like the ones that fill in words as people type--can learn to predict how and when proteins form different shapes.Credit:...
Development of cost-efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen production
Development of a highly efficient and durable electrocatalyst for water electrolysis that will lead to cost-efficient hydrogen production. Trace amounts...
Idaho laboratory joins national research programs for making ‘green’ hydrogen
Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory is a member of two new Department of Energy research consortia charged with...
Quality control mechanism closes the protein production ‘on-ramps’
Newly discovered quality control system in the protein production assembly line has implications for neurogenerative diseaseCredit: Artwork courtesy of Kamena...
Vaporized metal in the air of an exoplanet
Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STSci) WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star...
Graphene detector reveals THz light’s polarization
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Physicists have created a broadband detector of terahertz radiation based on graphene. The device has...
Bacterial cellulose degradation system could give boost to biofuels production
Credit: NINS/IMS Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose, the tough stuff that makes up plant cell walls, faster...
An electrical trigger fires single, identical photons
The precisely controlled photon source, made from an atomically thin semiconducting material, could aid the development of advanced quantum communicationCredit:...
Scientists developed key principles for creating an artificial vessel
Researchers implanted a polymer scaffold as a vascular prosthesis into the rat abdominal aorta and monitored the process of its...
RUDN University scientist suggested a simple model of dense plasma spectral properties
Credit: RUDN University A scientist from RUDN University suggested a new physical model to describe the optical properties of dense...
New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein’s theory of General Relativity
Credit: Gabriel Pérez DÃaz, SMM (IAC). This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to...
Coronavirus antibodies last at least three months after infection, study suggests
Credit: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the...
