Chemistry
Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs
Credit: Photo by Richard Brooks, Lightning Strike Media Productions, Palau. Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification is affecting corals'...
Engineers use heat-free technology to make metallic replicas of a rose’s surface texture
Credit: Photo courtesy of Martin Thuo and his research group. AMES, Iowa - Nature has worked for eons to perfect...
A chiral surprise in the rainforest
Reversed ratio of chiral volatile organic compounds over the Amazon rainforest reveal insects as unexplored important source of forest emissionsCredit:...
Princeton plays major role in new $115 million quantum science center
Credit: Image courtesy of Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University Princeton University will have a major leadership role in one of...
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit
Credit: by Shuo Liu, Shaojie Ma, Qian Zhang, Lei Zhang, Cheng Yang, Oubo You, Wenlong Gao, Yuanjiang Xiang, Tie Jun...
Rare encounters between cosmic heavyweights
Maunakea observatories discover three pairs of merging supermassive black holesCredit: Silverman et al. Maunakea, Hawaii - A cosmic dance between...
Photonics researchers report breakthrough in miniaturizing light-based chips
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Photonic integrated circuits that use light instead of electricity for computing and...
The Newtonian gravitational constant: Latest advances of the measurements
Credit: ©Science China Press Newton's law of universal gravitation, which describes the attractive force between two masses separated by the...
Molecular dispersion enhances quasi-bilayer organic solar cells
Credit: ©Science China Press In the last couple of years, organic solar cells (OSCs) based on non-fullerene (NF) acceptors have...
Topological superconducting phase protected by 1D local magnetic symmetries
Credit: ©Science China Press Topological superconductors (TSCs) are new kind of topological quantum states with fully superconducting gapped band structure...
Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges,...
Fabrication of a single-crystal giant magnetoresistive device on a polycrystalline film
Technique may promote practical use of high-performance magnetoresistive devices comprising half-metallic heusler alloysCredit: NIMS NIMS and AIST have jointly succeeded...
Thermodynamics of computation: A quest to find the cost of running a Turing machine
Credit: Kolchinksy and Wolpert, Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical...
Carnegie Mellon named NSF planning institute for artificial intelligence in physics
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University has received a $500,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
Placenta can indicate how body responds to opioids during pregnancy
University of Missouri scientists discover possible biological markers for identifying opioid use disorder.Credit: University of Missouri Scientists at the University...
Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found...
New Nitrogen Assembly Carbon catalyst has potential to transform chemical manufacturing
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a metal-free...
Study of Asia’s hillstream loaches reveals keys to fish family’s land-walking abilities
Researchers have reconstructed the ancestral relationships of the hillstream loach family tree, detailing for the first time a range of...
Nanodots made of photovoltaic material support waveguide modes
New spectroscopic technique for studying nanostructures demonstrates that stibnite nanodots can act as high-optical-quality waveguides and are promising candidates as...
Natural radiation can interfere with quantum computers
Study shows the need to shield qubits from natural radiation, like cosmic rays from outer spaceCredit: Timothy Holland, PNNL RICHLAND,...
