Chemistry
First evidence of snake-like venom glands found in amphibians
Credit: Carlos Jared Caecilians are limbless amphibians that, to the untrained eye, can be easily mistaken for snakes. Though caecilians...
Towards lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasersCredit: AIP Publishing In a...
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Credit: John Labram, Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific...
University of Oregon scientists dissociate water apart efficiently with new catalysts
Using a new approach, they were able to study and improve the water-dissociation reaction that rips apart water molecules in...
New light-based method for faster and ‘green’ production of building blocks for medicines
"Significant breakthrough" simplifies processing of gaseous, low-weight hydrocarbons in industry.Credit: Timothy Noël, TU/e In industry, gaseous hydrocarbons, such as ethane...
Carbon-loving materials designed to reduce industrial emissions
Credit: Credit: Zhenzhen Yang/University of Tennessee Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of...
Stellar fireworks celebrate birth of giant cluster
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble. Astronomers created a stunning new image showing celestial...
New technique in which drugs make bacteria glow could help fight antibiotic resistance
Credit: Dr Stefano Pagliara, University of Exeter New technique in which drugs make bacteria glow could help fight antibiotic resistance...
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanets
Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new...
Marine alga from the Kiel Fjord discovered as a remedy against infections and skin cancer
GEOMAR research group successfully applies bioinformatics methods and machine learning in marine drug discoveryCredit: Larissa Büdenbender Healing with the help...
Typhoon changed earthquake patterns
Intensive erosion influenced seismicityCredit: NASA/LANDSAT The Earth's crust is under constant stress. Every now and then this stress is discharged...
Cause of abnormal groundwater rise after large earthquake
How a mountain aquifer affected the local hydrological environment after a large earthquakePrior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater...
Thermophones offer new route to radically simplify array design, research shows
Credit: David Tatnell Scientists have pioneered a new technique to produce arrays of sound produced entirely by heat. The team...
Fluorine enables separation-free ‘chiral chromatographic analysis’
Credit: ZHAO Yanchun Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a...
Global e-waste surging: Up 21% in 5 years
A record 53.6 million tons (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the...
Mini-‘Marsquakes’ measured by InSight lander show effects of sun and wind
Kyushu University research based on NASA InSight Martian lander seismometer data reveals different sources of different types and frequencies of...
New method reveals how the Parkinson’s disease protein damages cell membranes
Credit: Fredrik Höök/Chalmers University of Technology In sufferers of Parkinson's disease, clumps of α-synuclein (alpha-synuclein), sometimes known as the 'Parkinson's...
Charcoal a weapon to fight superoxide-induced disease, injury
Nanomaterials soak up radicals, could aid treatment of COVID-19Credit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 1, 2020) - Artificial enzymes...
High-throughput X-ray diffraction instrument comes to Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source
Credit: Wes Agresta / Argonne National Laboratory Nothing brings scientists together like the possibility of better, more versatile research. Case...
Study confirms ultra music festival likely stressful to fish
UM Rosenstiel School researchers found high cortisol levels in toadfish during music festivalCredit: Tony Winton/Key Content, LLC MIAMI--A new study...
