Chemistry
Extreme weather conditions can tax urban drainage systems to the max
New design approach needed to handle impact of climate changeCredit: UBC Okanagan During a typical Canadian winter, snow accumulation and...
Scientists learn more about the first hours of a lithium-ion battery’s life
New technology enables nanoscale molecular view of self-assembling gateway structure withinCredit: Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL The first hours of a...
ALMA catches beautiful outcome of stellar fight
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al. Acknowledgement: Robert Cumming Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO...
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Credit: Jennifer Knoepp Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation...
Artificial intelligence ‘sees’ quantum advantages
Credit: Alexey Melnikov Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology, and...
Peeking at the plumbing of one of the Aleutian’s most-active volcanoes
A new approach to analyzing seismic data reveals deep vertical zones of low seismic velocity in the plumbing system underlying...
Dietary interventions may slow onset of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 4, 2020) -- Significantly reducing dietary levels of the amino...
Researchers discover method to detect motor-related brain activity
By applying a nonlinear signal processing method to experimental data, researchers found a connection between motor behavior and brain activities...
Herringbone pattern in plant cell walls critical to cell growth
Credit: Gu Lab, Penn State Plant cells tend to grow longer instead of wider due to the alignment of the...
Fast screening for potential new catalysts
ElectrochemistryCredit: RUB, Marquard It helps to directly ascertain the potential of a possible alloy. The team reports in the journal...
New quasi-particle discovered: The Pi-ton
Actually they had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of...
Unlocking the secret of cell regulation
Researchers at the University of Bonn are developing a new method for elucidating the structure of long ribonucleic acidsCredit: (c)...
EU funds 3m project to develop nanodevices against epilepsy and Parkinson’s
Novel nanotechnologies could be used as brain implants, modulating the activity of nerve cells electrochemically and treating neurological diseasesCredit: Photo...
Chitosan-graft-Polyacrylamide tested as inhibitor of hydrate formation
Kazan Federal University and Shahid Beheshti University have published their research in Crystal Growth and Design.Credit: Kazan Federal University Currently,...
Study identifies interaction site for serotonin type 3A and RIC-3 chaperone
Credit: TTUHSC To address the receptor dysfunction associated with several serious neurological diseases, Michaela Jansen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., from the Texas...
NSF CAREER Award supports astronomer’s quest to further understand the universe
Research led by Laura Sales will shed light on the dark matter content of dwarf galaxiesCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside....
UNH researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins
Credit: NASA DURHAM, N.H.-- Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles...
Making light work
McMaster and Harvard researchers create 'intelligent' interaction between light and material, establishing a promising new platform for computingCredit: McMaster University...
Cold plasma patch could make immunotherapy more effective for treating melanoma
The patch significantly prolonged survival, inhibited growth of tumors in miceCredit: Zhen Gu Lab/UCLA Los Angeles - An interdisciplinary team...
APS tip sheet: modeling the matter after big bang expansion
Matter's fragmentation after the big bangCredit: Musoke et al. Physical Review Letters (2020) After the Big Bang, there likely came...
