Chemistry
All-fiber optical wavelength converter
Credit: Biqiang Jiang, Zhen Hao, Yafei Ji, Yueguo Hou, Ruixuan Yi, Dong Mao, Xuetao Gan and Jianlin Zhao Silica optical...
Screw cancer: Microneedle sticks it to cancer tissue
Scientists are finding safer ways to keep drug-loaded microrobots attached to cancer tissueCredit: DGIST A drug-loaded microrobotic needle effectively targets...
How does nitrogen dynamics affect carbon and water budgets in China?
Credit: Jingjing Liang As an important part of biogeochemical cycling, the nitrogen cycle modulates terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage, water consumption,...
Real-time visualization of solid-phase ion migration
Credit: Zhen He,Li?Ge Chang,Yue Lin,Feng-Lei Shi,Ze-Dong Li,Jin-Long Wang,Yi Li,Rui Wang,Qing-Xia Chen,Yu-Yang Lu,Qing-Hua Zhang,Lin Gu,Yong Ni,Jian-Wei Liu,Jian-Bo Wu,Shu-Hong Yu*... The USTC...
KIST develops large-scale stretchable and transparent electrodes
Wavy silver nanowire network on stretchable substrate were fabricated for large-scale stretchable and transparent electrodes. It can be potentially applicable...
ESO instrument finds closest black hole to Earth
Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eyeCredit: ESO/L. Calçada A team of astronomers from the European...
Fluorescent technique brings aging polymers to light
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00133 Modern society relies on polymers, such as polypropylene or polyethylene plastic,...
Lehigh University team awarded $2.5 Million from ARPA-E
Funding will support transformational energy technology framework and platform to improve economic efficiency of current electricity system operationsCredit: Lehigh University...
Unraveling one of prion disease’s deadly secrets
UMass Amherst prion specialist and team discover unexpected mechanism in curingCredit: UMass Amherst/Serio lab AMHERST, Mass. - A molecular biologist...
Four years of calculations lead to new insights into muon anomaly
For two decades, physicists have been trying to reconcile a gap between theoretical and experimental data on a particle called...
Study: could dark matter be hiding in existing data?
Current experiments' detectors and data analyses efforts could be refocused to seek out newly suggested types of dark matter signals...
Protective shield: How pathogens withstand acidic environments in the body
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum Certain bacteria, including the dangerous nosocomial pathogen MRSA, can protect themselves from acidic conditions in...
Identifying light sources using artificial intelligence
A smart quantum technology for identification of light sources with fewer measurementsCredit: Elsa Hahne WASHINGTON, May 5, 2020 -- Identifying...
Long-term developments of energy pricing and consumption in industry
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have collaborated with British economists to study how...
Multifunctional porous carbon fibers show significant promise in capacitive desalination
Credit: Virginia Tech Researchers in the College of Science have developed a material that is up to 40 times faster...
Broadband enhancement relies on precise tilt
Investigators develop a quantum photonics prototype using hyperbolic metamaterials tilted at a precise angle from an optical fiberCredit: Lian Shen...
Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas
A prototype design of a plasma jet thruster can generate thrusting pressures on the same magnitude a commercial jet engine...
Researchers explore quantum computing to discover possible COVID-19 treatments
Credit: Junde Li, Penn State Quantum machine learning, an emerging field that combines machine learning and quantum physics, is the...
Study reveals single-step strategy for recycling used nuclear fuel
The method developed Texas A&M researchers could help reduce nuclear wasteCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering A typical nuclear...
Scholes finds novel magnetic field effect in diamagnetic molecules
Credit: Illustration: Bryan Kudisch, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University The Princeton University Department of Chemistry publishes research this week proving...
