Chemistry

February 7, 2026

Your brain parasite isn’t making you sick — here’s why

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications More than 30 million Americans are infected with a brain parasite spread by cats...

Using protons to tune interlayer forces in van-der-Waals materials

Interlayer coupling in FGT successfully increased by insertion of protonsCredit: FLEET A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time...

Quantum chip fabrication paves way for scalable processors

Credit: Courtesy MIT RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- An Army-funded project marks a turning point in the field of scalable...

New method lets scientists peer deeper into ocean

Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Researchers have advanced a new way to see into the ocean's depths, establishing an...

ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A....

Stunning space butterfly captured by ESO telescope

Credit: ESO Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas --...

Jefferson Lab ES&H Deputy Director receives Health Physics Society honor

After more than 40 years of dedicated service to safety, Bob May has been named a fellow of the Health...

First gene knockout in a cephalopod is achieved at Marine Biological Laboratory

Credit: Karen Crawford WOODS HOLE, Mass. --A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has achieved the first gene knockout...

Research brief: ‘Fool’s gold’ may be valuable after all

For the first time, researchers electrically transform material from non-magnetic to magneticCredit: Leighton et al In a breakthrough new study,...

Best place on Earth to see stars is at remote site in Antarctica, study shows

Credit: Photo: Zhaohui Shang Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It's because turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere makes light...

Rena Bizios to receive the BioMedSA Award for Innovation in Healthcare and Bioscience

Credit: UTSA Communications (July 30, 2020) -- BioMedSA, the non-profit corporation founded in 2005 to promote and grow San Antonio's...

Cosmic tango between the very small and the very large

Theory of loop quantum cosmology describes how tiny primordial features account for anomalies at the largest scales of the universeCredit:...

First results of an upgraded device highlight lithium’s value for producing fusion

Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could...

Tailored meta-grid of nanoparticles boosting performance of light-emitting diodes

Credit: by Debabrata Sikdar, John B. Pendry, and Alexei A. Kornyshev Introducing the newly designed 'meta-grid' of nanoparticles into the...

New fabric could help keep you cool in the summer, even without A/C (video)

Credit: American Chemical Society Air conditioning and other space cooling methods account for about 10% of all electricity consumption in...

Army scientists develop realistic canine bite sleeve to improve training

Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 23, 2020) -- Army scientists designed and developed a realistic canine bite...

Transforming e-waste into a strong, protective coating for metal

Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c00485 A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a...

New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices closer to viability

Credit: Yusheng Lei Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which...

Discovered: Remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”

'Stellar archaeology' reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by...

A new method is developed to extract antibiotic residue in food from animal sources