Chemistry
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via in-plane inversion-symmetry broken PhC slabs
Credit: by Jiajun Wang, Han Li, Yating Ma, Maoxiong Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Bo Wang, Shiwei Wu, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi...
The interplay of nonlinearity and topology–nontrivial eigenmodes coupling induced by nonlinearity
Credit: by Shiqi Xia, DarioJuki?, NanWang, DariaSmirnova, LevSmirnov, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Alexander Szameit, Daniel Leykam, JingjunXu, Zhigang Chen and...
Surface deep: Light-responsive top layer of plastic film induces movement
Scientists show that azobenzene-containing film, important for many industries, does not need to be made entirely of light-sensitive material to...
The age of the Earth’s inner core revised
Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have...
Hubble snaps close-up of comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the...
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on...
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches Torus Biosystems
Nucleic acid detection technology enables rapid, quantitative, and highly multiplexed detection of microbial pathogens and host immune-response markers, facilitating precision...
Energy transition away from coal in China will yield benefits
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, August 21, 2020 - China is the world's largest producer and consumer of...
Elevated “hunger” hormone leaves trauma-exposed teens at higher risk for PTSD
Credit: JoCol Burgess Chronic stress increases a blood-based hormone called acyl-ghrelin for years after the initial traumatic stressor exposure in...
“All-in-one” strategy for metalla[3]catenanes, borromean rings and ring-in-ring complex
Credit: ©Science China Press Interlocked molecular species have received considerable attention recently, not only because of their intriguing structures and...
A powder method for the high-efficacy measurement of electro-optic coefficients
Credit: ©Science China Press Electro-optic crystal shows great promise for extensive applications in laser, optoelectronics, and optical communication, such as...
Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
Credit: Amit Shukla / Indian Institute of Technology Indore Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that...
One more hit from rare Earth: Efficient coherent spin manipulation by the electric field
Credit: ©Science China Press Electricity and magnetism have been unified by Maxwell's equations, which is the foundation of a vast...
Smart responsive lasing signals for high-security optical encryption
Credit: ©Science China Press Information security has drawn considerable attention as the exponential growth of information communication in the era...
Electron movements in liquid measured in super-slow motion
Credit: ETH Zurich / Inga Jordan To understand how chemical reactions begin, chemists have been using super-slow motion experiments for...
From biopaste to bioplastic
Credit: Photo: Lisa Ebers A viscous biopaste that is easy to process, solidifies quickly and is suitable for producing even...
Research team develops the first physics-based method for predicting large solar flares
Credit: Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University Solar flares emit sudden, strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun's...
A new lens on the world: Improving the metalens with liquid crystal
Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical, aim to 'revolutionize optics' by combining nanostructured metasurfaces with...
Firefighters exposed to more potentially harmful chemicals than previously thought
Credit: Carolyn Poutasse, Oregon State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new Oregon State University study suggests that firefighters are more...
Greenland ice sheet shows losses in 2019
AWI researchers confirm record ice losses in Greenland in 2019 based on data from the GFZ/NASA satellite mission GRACE Follow-OnCredit:...
