Chemistry
The candy-cola soda geyser experiment, at different altitudes
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b01177 Dropping Mentos® candies into a bottle of soda causes a...
Stable perovskite LEDs one step closer
Perovskite-molecule composite thin films for efficient and stable light-emitting diodesCredit: Magnus Johansson Researchers at Linköping University, working with colleagues in...
Possible lives for food waste from restaurants
Credit: University of Cordoba More than a third of the food produced ends up being wasted. This situation creates environmental,...
Most of Earth’s carbon was hidden in the core during its formative years
New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani...
Columbia to upgrade Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher
The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.Credit:...
Graphene-based actuator swarm enables programmable deformation
Credit: ©Science China Press Actuators that can convert various environmental stimuli to mechanical works have revealed great potential for developing...
The discovery of new compounds for acting on the circadian clock
New small molecules promote the differentiation of brown adipocytesCredit: Issey Takahashi | ITBM, Nagoya University The circadian clock controls a...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope full mirror deployment a success
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn In a recent test, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully deployed its primary mirror into the...
To tune up your quantum computer, better call an AI mechanic
New paradigm for "auto-tuning" quantum bits could overcome major engineering hurdle.Credit: B. Hayes / NIST A high-end race car engine...
Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole
Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized...
Scientists tap unused energy source to power smart sensor networks
Credit: Kai Wang The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are...
Scalable algorithms for many applications
European Research Council funds Peter Sanders' 'ScAlBox' project by an Advanced GrantCredit: Heidi Offterdinger Within his "ScAlBox" project, computer scientist...
Atomic magnetometer points to better picture of heart conductivity
Radio-frequency device maps electric currents in solutions that mimic the heart with enough resolutions to study the subtle aberrations related...
On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn carbon dioxide into new products
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocksCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Peidong Yang If...
Cancer research, the guardian of the genome has a new ally
A team of researchers of the University of Trento focused on a new molecular mechanism that works like a 'switch'Credit:...
Extreme high-frequency signals enable terabits-per-second data links
A team, including the man who invented DSL technology, attempted to scale up the original idea to use terahertz frequencies...
LANL news: High altitude water Cherenkov Observatory tests speed of light
Ultra-high energy gamma rays from the far reaches of the galaxy provide powerful proof that the predictions of relativity, including...
Surfing the waves: Electrons break law to go with the flow
Credit: OIST If you see people walking down a street and coming to a junction, it's difficult to predict which...
Quantum-entangled light from a vibrating membrane
Credit: Ola Joensen Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers...
New explanation for sudden heat collapses in plasmas can help create fusion energy
Credit: Photo and composite by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. Scientists seeking to bring the fusion that powers the sun...
