Chemistry
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...
When Fock meets Landau: Topology in atom-photon interactions
Credit: @Science China Press Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect, topological phases of electrons have become a major...
Ultra-sensitive nanothermometer under ambient conditions
Credit: @Science China Press Nanoscale temperature measurement with high sensitivity is important to investigating many phenomena such as heat dissipation...
Turning excess noise into signal
Credit: by Aaron M. Kho, Tingwei Zhang, Jun Zhu, Conrad W. Merkle, Vivek J. Srinivasan During the early 1800s, the...
Novel antiviral strategy for treatment of COVID-19
HKU scientists and microbiologists jointly discover a novel antiviral strategy for treatment of COVID-19 using existing metallodrugsCredit: The University of...
Upgraded GMRT measures the mass of hydrogen in distant galaxies
Credit: Rakesh Rao A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman...
Small RNA as a central player in infections
Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world's...
Insilico partners with Taisho on end-to-end AI-powered senolytic drug discovery
Insilico partners with Taisho Pharmaceutical on end-to-end AI-powered senolytic drug discovery. Leading Japanese pharmaceutical company to engage Insilico Medicine on...
Star clusters are only the tip of the iceberg
Finding lost star siblingsCredit: © Stefan Meingast, made with Gaia Sky "Clusters form big families of stars that can stay...
Australian research shows NASA’s James Webb telescopes will reveal hidden galaxies
Blinding glare of quasars can be overcomeCredit: NASA Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest,...
Design and test potential COVID-19 treatments from your phone
The ViDok app crowdsources the drug discovery processCredit: Courtesy of Thanh Truong. You're invited to join the search for COVID-19...
A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe’s missing mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matterCredit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
UNLV and University of Rochester physicists observe room-temperature superconductivity
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, opens door for reimagining the energy grid, technology, societyCredit: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Photo Services...
Temperature evolution of impurities in a quantum gas
What role does heat play in quantum impurity studies?Credit: FLEET A new, Monash-led theoretical study advances our understanding of its...
From hurricanes to earthquakes, space station experiment overcomes challenges
Few researchers have had to overcome hurricanes and earthquakes, though, just two of the hurdles a team of chemists in...
An innovative method to tune lasers toward infrared wavelengths
Researchers at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) have discovered a cost-effective way to tune the spectrum of a...
