Chemistry
How speech propels pathogens
Credit: M. Abkarian and H.A. Stone Speech and singing spread saliva droplets, a phenomenon that has attracted much attention in...
Global Pharmaceutical Policy
The only text available today which provides an up to date account of international pharmaceutical policy research.Credit: University of Huddersfield...
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
Researchers harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace...
Searching for the chemistry of life
Study shows possible new way to create DNA base pairsCredit: Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Tomislav Stolar In the search for the...
Fuelling the energy revolution
A chemist at Paderborn University is researching green hydrogen for sustainable transport - dovetailing fundamental research and application technologiesCredit: Paderborn...
Vaccine ingredients could be hiding in small molecule libraries
Scientists have found an ingredient that makes a vaccine more effective through an approach more often seen in materials science...
USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award
Credit: Steve Anderson SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award...
RIT Professor Scott Franklin named American Physical Society Fellow
Franklin elected upon recommendation of the APS forum on educationCredit: RIT Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Scott Franklin has been...
Sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity could bolster thermal imaging
Better detection of microwave radiation will improve thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communicationsCredit: Raytheon BBN Technologies RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C....
Black hole shadow puts general relativity to the test
Credit: Lia Medeiros, IAS, BH PIRE This news is embargoed until Oct. 1, 2020, 11:00 a.m. ET and should follow...
Rise of the mutants: New uOttawa-led research to improve enzyme design methodologies
Credit: Rojo Rakotoharisoa A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa has been looking for ways to improve enzyme...
Optics and photonics researcher receives $1.7 million nih grant
Assistant Professor Kyu Young Han will use the funding to develop a new optical technology that could aid in the...
Einstein’s description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole imagesCredit: L. Medeiros; C. Chan; D. Psaltis; F. Özel;...
Ultrasensitive microwave detector developed
Credit: Sampson Wilcox from MIT A joint international research team from POSTECH of South Korea, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Harvard University,...
Carb-eating bacteria under viral threat
Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactionsCredit: (Purdue University and Seyet LLC) Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates -- that's...
Carbon-carbon covalent bonds far more flexible than presumed
Credit: Takuya Shimajiri, Takanori Suzuki, Yusuke Ishigaki, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, September 30, 2020 A Hokkaido University research group has...
Timing the life of antimatter particles may lead to better cancer treatment
Japanese team aims to detect oxygen concentration in tumors using upgraded medical imaging scanCredit: Taiga Yamaya, CC-BY Experts in Japan...
ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada With the help of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a...
The most sensitive optical receivers yet for space communications
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum reach, while also...
URI researcher: Housing prices decline within mile of solar energy arrays
'We need to be smarter in siting solar installations'Credit: University of Rhode Island KINGSTON, R.I. - September 30, 2020 -...