Chemistry
Particulate plutonium released from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns
New research strongly suggests that the nano-scale heterogeneity that is common in normal nuclear fuels is still present in the...
POSTECH solves the durability issue of hydrogen cars
Credit: Yong-Tae Kim (POSTECH) When a bicycle gets wet in the rain, the frame and chain become corroded or rusty...
Review of progress towards advanced Lithium-sulfur batteries
Credit: Author How should one design porous carbon materials for advanced Li-S batteries cathodes? What electrolytes are extensively studied for...
Perovskite solar cells developed by NTU Singapore scientists record highest power conversion
Use of existing industry method brings perovskites a step closer to market adoptionCredit: NTU Singapore A team of researchers at...
Butterfly wings inspiring next-gen technological innovations
Credit: ©Science China Press The catastrophic effects of global environmental degradation, health deterioration and diminishing energy resources are demanding remedy...
Underused part of the electromagnetic spectrum gets optics boost from metamaterial
Credit: Takehito Suzuki, TUAT Terahertz radiation, or T-rays, has barely been exploited compared to most of the rest of the...
Study finds that special filters in glasses can help the color blind see colors better
Effect persists even when glasses are not wornCredit: UC Regents / UC Davis Health A new UC Davis Eye Center...
Green is more than skin-deep for hundreds of frog species
Biochemical workaround makes pigment that tunes light to the exact shade of a green leafCredit: Santiago R. Ron DURHAM, N.C....
UMass Amherst team makes artificial energy source for muscle
Synthesizing an alternative fuel for muscle could lead to medical advancesCredit: UMass Amherst/Debold lab AMHERST, Mass. - A chemist and...
Penn to co-lead $6.5 million transatlantic grant to investigate the role of the immune system in health
The international team of researchers will focus on inflammation and the role different cells in the immune system play in...
Lasers etch an efficient way to address global water crisis
Credit: H.M. Cao/University of Rochester Lasers etch a simple way to address global water crisis Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people...
New solar material could clean drinking water
Credit: Courtesy University of Rochester RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (July 13, 2020) - Providing clean water to Soldiers in the...
Chemists advance solar energy storage aimed at global challenges
Utah State University researchers participate in multi-university effort to improve technology for rural electrification and saltwater desalinationCredit: M. Muffoletto LOGAN,...
Experiment confirms liquids show properties of solid bodies at microscopic scales
An international paper went out in Physical Review BCredit: Kazan Federal University The collaborators are Kazan Federal University, Vereschagin Institute...
ITMO University researchers develop new technique for production of plasmonics devices
Researchers from ITMO University have improved on the technique of local processing of composites based on nanoporous glass with addition...
Deep learning enables early detection and classification of live bacteria using holography
Credit: by Hongda Wang, Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Yunzhe Qiu, Bijie Bai, Yibo Zhang, Yiyin Jin, Sabiha Tok, Enis Cagatay Yilmaz,...
Astrophysicists suggest carbon found in comet ATLAS help to reveal age of other comets
Credit: Martin Gembec Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices...
Researchers present concept for a new technique to study superheavy elements
Merging methodologies from physics and chemistry for the optical spectroscopy of superheavy elementsCredit: Ill./©: Mustapha Laatiaoui Superheavy elements are intriguing...
The colorful history of plastids
Credit: S Sibbald and J Archibald A billion years ago, a single-celled eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacterium--an organism capable of converting...
Scientists demonstrate a new experiment in the search for theorized ‘neutrinoless’ proc
Berkeley Lab researchers are part of an international team that reports a high-sensitivity measurement by underground CUPID-Mo experimentCredit: CUPID-Mo collaboration...
