Chemistry
Editors’ Choice in Science: an unusual superconductor
Credit: Nano Letters, School of Physics of Peking University Professor Wang Jian at Peking University and collaborators investigated the superconducting...
Springer Nature launches its first textbook as part of the newly established MOOC&BOOK
Textbook on Archaeoastronomy is linked to the online course The Science of Stars and Stones at Politecnico di MilanoCredit: Springer...
Comprehensive look at US fuel economy standards show big savings on fuel and emissions
Credit: Graph courtesy of the researchers (Rebecca Ciez); Redesign by Bumper DeJesus In one of the first comprehensive assessments of...
Discovery of unconventional hall effect
Credit: ©Science China Press Hall effect plays an important role in the development of condensed matter physics. The classical Hall...
ERC Starting Grant for Sara Buson
Credit: (Photo: Elisa Mortin) Cosmic rays prove it: the universe hosts astrophysically elusive "monsters" that continuously and efficiently accelerate elementary...
ERC starting grants 2020: 677 million awarded to unravel scientific mysteries
Credit: ERC What can be done to improve the efficacy of vaccines? How can we predict our future climate? What...
Unmanned aerial vehicles help wheat breeders
Credit: José Manuel Reyes Mendoza Breeding programs for crops with limited per-plant seed yield require one or more generations of...
Plant pathogens reorder physical structures of effectors to escape plant recognition
Credit: The American Phytopathology Society Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete, or water mold, that causes the devastating potato disease known...
How mechanical forces nudge tumors toward malignancy
Credit: Laboratory of Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University All cancers are the result of cells that have...
Making more of methane
Credit: © 2020 data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) Demand continues for plastics and solvents made from petrochemicals, which...
Ambient light alters refraction in 2D material
Rice researchers find effect that could aid 3D displays, virtual reality, self-driving vehiclesCredit: Weijian Li/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 2,...
Has Earth’s oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?
Credit: Shuai Li To the surprise of many planetary scientists, the oxidized iron mineral hematite has been discovered at high...
Toxicity of dorsal root ganglia is widely associated with CNS AAV gene therapy
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 2, 2020—A meta-analysis of non-human primate (NHP) studies showed that...
Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature
Suppression of long-lived energetic states called triplet excitons shown to be key for preventing the "lasing death" that has been...
Hunting for a better biofuel is scope of new UT Austin-led research
Credit: Robert Goodwin, Michigan State University AUSTIN, Texas -- A team of scientists from nine universities and research facilities hope...
Strong fields and ultrafast motions – how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water
Credit: MBI Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in their environment....
Brazilian researcher proposes universal mechanism for ejection of matter by black holes
The process occurs in active-core nuclei. A molecular gas cloud that accumulates in the central region is blown away by...
Zooming in on dark matter
Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium Most matter in the Universe is dark and completely different in nature from the matter...
Stanford engineers reprogram yeast cells to become microscopic drug factories
By genetically reprogramming the cellular machinery of yeast they created microscopic factories that convert sugars and amino acids into plant-based...
Electromagnetic chirality: From fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena
Credit: by Jungho Mun, Minkyung Kim, Younghwan Yang, Trevon Badloe, Jincheng Ni, Yang Chen, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Junsuk Rho Recent...
