Chemistry
Breakthrough technology purifies water using the power of sunlight
Credit: Monash University A global research team has been able to transform brackish water and seawater into safe, clean drinking...
UBC helps Arc’teryx stay green and dry with next-generation water-repellent fabrics
New research creates sustainable and non-toxic replacement for traditional water-repellent chemistryCredit: UBC Okanagan A sustainable, non-toxic and high-performance water-repellent fabric...
Nanocatalysts that remotely control chemical reactions inside living cells
Credit: In su Lee (POSTECH) The enzymes responsible for catalytic reactions in our body's biological reactions are difficult to use...
Discovery of massless electrons in phase-change materials provides next step for future electronics
Credit: Akio Kimura, Hiroshima University Researchers have found electrons that behave as if they have no mass, called Dirac electrons,...
Katherine Hornbostel selected as fellow for RCSA’s Scialog: Negative Emissions Science
Credit: Ramon Cordero / Mainline Photography The Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) has named Katherine Hornbostel, assistant professor of...
From nanocellulose to gold
Self-assembly of mechanoplasmonic bacterial cellulose-metal nanoparticle compositesCredit: Magnus Johansson When nanocellulose is combined with various types of metal nanoparticles, materials...
Mobility 2035: Technology calendar supports small and medium-sized companies in their transformation
Study compares mobility scenarios and helps with strategic decisionsCredit: Sandra Goettisheim Autonomous driving, electromobility, synthetic fuels: the mobility in our...
Magnesium alloy with eddy-thermal effect for novel tumor magnetic hyperthermia therapy
Credit: ©Science China Press Magnetic hyperthermia therapy (MHT) as a noninvasive local treatment strategy is able to ablate tumors using...
Inside the ice giants of space
By reconstructing on a small scale the physical processes that take place within ice giant planets, such as Uranus and...
Intranasal vaccine platform has potential for more effective vaccines, fewer side effects
Study shows that peptide nanofibers induce immune response in lungs and lymph nodes without requiring adjuvants for efficacy, indicating promise...
Highly sensitive dopamine detector uses 2D materials
Credit: Derrick Butler, Penn State A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result...
Materials science researchers develop first electrically injected laser
The diode laser uses semiconducting material germanium tin and could improve micro-processing speed and efficiency at much lower costsCredit: University...
NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in sun’s atmosphere
Credit: NASA Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren't sure just how...
New DOE grant to develop catalysts for renewable energy generation
Wayne State University professor to lead effortsCredit: Wayne State University College of Engineering DETROIT - Shifting the current energy landscape...
Making N-C bond directly from N2: summary and perspective
Credit: ©Science China Press As the most abundant constituent in Earth's atmosphere, dinitrogen (N2) is the main nitrogen source of...
Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration isolated
How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first...
Epirubicin-loaded nanomedicines beat immune checkpoint blockade resistance in glioblastoma
Credit: 2020 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine Summary: A nanomedicine-based strategy for chemo-immunotherapy (CIT) of glioblastoma (GBM), which has the worst...
Hubble makes the first observation of a total lunar eclipse by a space telescope
Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected...
Adding another dimension to a cell culture model for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Researchers use 3D cell culture technology to replicate the pathogenetic process of pulmonary arterial hypertensionCredit: © 2020 Mitsunobu R. Kano...
Stellar egg hunt with ALMA
Tracing evolution from embryo to baby starCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tokuda et al., ESA/Herschel Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
