Chemistry
Study reveals composition of ‘gel-like’ substance discovered by Chang’e-4 rover on moon’s far side
Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side...
Thermal manipulation of plasmons in atomically thin films
Credit: by Eduardo J. C. Dias, Renwen Yu, F. Javier García de Abajo Surface plasmons in graphene have been widely...
A survey on optical memory and optical RAM technologies
Credit: by Alexoudi, T., Kanellos, G.T. & Pleros, N. Over the past decades, "storing light" has appeared as a rather...
Topological photonics in fractal lattices
Credit: by Zhaoju Yang, Eran Lustig, Yaakov Lumer and Mordechai Segev Topological insulators are a new phase of matter featured...
Valley-Hall nanoscale lasers
Credit: by Daria Smirnova, Aditya Tripathi, Sergey Kruk, Min-Soo Hwang, Ha-Reem Kim, Hong-Gyu Park, and Yuri Kivshar Topological photonics underpins...
New detection method turns silicon cameras into mid-infrared detectors
Credit: by David Knez, Adam Hanninen, Richard Prince, Eric Potma and Dmitry Fishman The MIR range of the electromagnetic spectrum,...
Synthetic dimensions enable a new way to construct higher-order topological insulators
Credit: by Avik Dutt, Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, and Shanhui Fan Topological insulators have been an exciting field...
Temporal aiming with temporal metamaterials
Credit: by Victor Pacheco-Peña and Nader Engheta Tailoring and manipulating electromagnetic wave propagation has been of great interest within the...
Everything you ever wanted to know about leech sex but were afraid to ask
Credit: Karen Kidd Today, we pull the veil back on the secret sex lives of leeches and how researchers at...
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zapCredit: Alvarez Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20,...
UC Davis Health tests monoclonal antibodies as potential COVID-19 treatment
Timothy Albertson was awarded BARDA grant to run the clinical trialCredit: UC Davis Health Timothy Albertson, chair of internal medicine...
Physicists take stop-action images of light-driven molecular reaction
Credit: Lea-Maria Ibele MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Kansas State University physicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions...
Quantum exciton found in magnetic van der Waals material NiPS3
Exciton of many-body origin in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3 points a new direction in quantum informationCredit: IBS Things can...
Cacti and other iconic desert plants threatened by solar development
Native desert plants important to indigenous cultures especially vulnerableCredit: Steve Grodsky, UC Davis With their tough skins, pointy armor and...
Scientists strengthen quantum building blocks in milestone critical for scale-up
Credit: Takashi Kobayashi A group of international scientists have substantially lengthened the duration of time that a spin-orbit qubit in...
Ultracold mystery: Solved
By manipulating ultracold molecules mid-chemical reaction, researchers crack a molecular disappearing actCredit: Ni Lab/Harvard University In a famous parable, three...
Formation of quadruple helix DNA tracked in live human cells for the first time
Credit: Ella Maru Studio The formation of four-stranded DNA has been tracked in living human cells, allowing scientists to see...
Plato was right. Earth is made, on average, of cubes
The ancient Greek philosopher was on to something, researchers foundCredit: Courtesy of Gablor Domokos and Douglas Jerolmack Plato, the Greek...
Scientists boost stability and efficiency of next-gen solar tech
Solar modules made from perovskite material gain power to transform the solar tech industryCredit: OIST Researchers from the Okinawa Institute...
A plot twist in pharmaceuticals: Single nanoparticles could pave the way for medicines on demand
Credit: Ventsislav Valev and Joel Collins For the first time, a single, twisted nanoparticle has been accurately measured and characterised...
