Chemistry
Visceral fat delivers signal to the brain that hurts cognition
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Excessive weight around our middle gives our brain's resident immune cells heavy exposure...
Study maps landmarks of peripheral artery disease to guide treatment development
Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Novel biomedical advances that show promise in the lab often fall short...
Study finds ‘silent’ genetic variations can alter protein folding
Credit: Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Proteins, the workhorse of the human cell, help digest our food, carry...
APS tip sheet: Using bird song to determine bird size
An analysis of a bird species' unique rasps shows how sound fluctuations in birds' songs might reveal details about birds'...
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electronsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 2,...
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel...
Fresh clean drinking water for all could soon to be a reality in Pakistan
Huddersfield senior research fellow Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghori will be working with Pakistani officials to bring clean, affordable drinking water...
Atomic vacancy as quantum bit
Credit: (Image: Mehran Kianinia, University of Technology Sydney) Although boron nitride looks very similar to graphene in structure, it has...
New study reveals the secret of magmatic rocks consisting of only one mineral
Geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, have come up with an original explanation of how nature may produce...
Gold in limbo between solid and melted states
By capturing the laser-induced structural changes happening in polycrystalline gold thin films over time, scientists determined that melting does not...
Paper: Disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing poses dangers to drivers
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Environmental concerns about hydraulic fracturing - aka "fracking," the process by...
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally...
Sinking sea mountains make and muffle earthquakes
Credit: Andrew Gase/National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Subduction zones -- places where one tectonic plate dives beneath another...
Fish school by randomly copying each other, rather than following the group
Credit: Photo by Milos Prelevic on Unsplash. Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating...
Cloud data speeds set to soar with aid of laser mini-magnets
Credit: Dr Olof Johansson Tiny, laser-activated magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster...
Hydrogen energy at the root of life
Evolutionary biologyCredit: Susan Lang, U. of SC. / NSF / ROV Jason / 2018 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Since...
A current map for improving circuit design
Credit: © 2020 KAUST A practical method for mapping the flow of a current in devices with complex geometries that...
Quantum mechanical simulations of Earth’s lower mantle minerals
Credit: Ehime University Recent progress in theoretical mineral physics based on the ab initio quantum mechanical computation method has been...
Carbon chains adopt fusilli or spaghetti shapes if they have odd or even numbers
Credit: University of Bristol Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA,...
Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs...
