Chemistry
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs well
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, Grainger Engineering In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can...
Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jesse Miller CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a...
The historical partnership that revolutionized battery research at Argonne
Credit: Mark Lopez / Argonne National Laboratory Researchers around the world are on the hunt to find cheaper, better lithium-ion...
Cool new worlds found in our cosmic backyard
Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfsCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Acknowledgement: William Pendrill...
Calculating hadrons using supercomputers
Antoni Woss earned JSA's 2019 Thesis Prize for exploring the theory underpinning the properties of subatomic particles and how they...
New ‘nanopores’ technique offers proof-of-concept of earlier, safer tumor detection
Credit: Ryuji Kawano, TUAT In recent years, a non-invasive biopsy method called liquid biopsy has shown promise as a potential...
Trace vapor generator for detecting explosives, narcotics
A small trace vapor generator is developed for noncontact sensing of explosives and narcoticsCredit: Diagram provided by U.S. Naval Research...
Climate change impact on green energy production
Investigating the impact of temperature on solar and wind energy production in AustraliaCredit: Jing Huang WASHINGTON, August 18, 2020 --...
100 cool worlds found near the sun
Citizen scientists help locate some of the coolest brown dwarfs ever discoveredCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld; acknowledgement: William Pendrill Maunakea, Hawaii -...
Humid air can extend lifetime of virus-laden aerosol droplets
Scientists report a detailed model of aerosol transport through air, considering several environmental conditions, such as temperature, humidity and ambient...
Huddersfield research predicted anti-COVID steroid benefits
Huddersfield researchers publish study that found that dexamethasone could reduce death rates in hospitalised COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic.Credit:...
New superlattice by CCNY team could lead to sustainable quantum electronics
Credit: Image by Lukas Zhao A team of international physicists led by Lia Krusin-Elbaum of the City College of New...
The easy way to get a square deal
Scientists at Osaka University demonstrate a simple method for inserting high-energy cubane molecules into an existing single-crystal supramolecular framework, work...
Russian chemists proposed a new design of flow batteries
The new design allows not only to reduce the cost of experiments, but also increases the power of vanadium batteriesCredit:...
A new two-dimensional carbon allotrope — semiconducting diamane film synthesized
Credit: Feng Ke Atomically thin diamond, also called diamane, is a two-dimensional carbon allotrope and has attracted considerable scientific interest...
Low-dose real-time X-ray imaging with nontoxic double perovskite scintillators
Credit: Wenjuan Zhu, Wenbo Ma, Yirong Su, Zeng Chen, Xinya Chen, Yaoguang Ma, Lizhong Bai, Wenge Xiao, Tianyu Liu, Haiming...
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids
Credit: by Jules Scholler, Kassandra Groux, Olivier Goureau, José-Alain Sahel, Mathias Fink, Sacha Reichman, Claude Boccara and Kate Grieve Current...
Smart AI makes all kinds of shapes on its own
Credit: POSTECH Plastic is light, cheap, and can be made into any shape if heated, making it a "gift from...
The MOF-based multicolor single-mode microlaser
Credit: Huajun He, Yuanjing Cui, Hongjun Li, Kai Shao, Banglin Chen and Guodong Qian Since different tissues, cells or biochemicals...
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by THz-induced Kerr effect
Credit: Hang Zhao, Yong Tan, Liangliang Zhang, Rui Zhang, Mostafa Shalaby, Cunlin Zhang, Yuejin Zhao, and Xi-Cheng Zhang Liquid water...
