Chemistry
Versatile in use — FBH semiconductor light sources
Credit: FBH/schurian.com FBH exhibits novel diode lasers and modules at Photonics West 2020. Applications include materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, and...
Scientists make breakthrough in ion-conducting composite membranes
Credit: DAI Qing Chinese researchers under the direction of Profs. LI Xianfeng and ZHANG Huamin from the Dalian Institute of...
Utilizing relativistic effects for laser fusion: A new approach for clean power
Activating relativistic effects of intense laser light in plasma, researchers at Osaka University test a new method for achieving consistent...
Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature’s tricks
Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way...
Shutdown of coal-fired plants in US saves lives and improves crop yields
Between 2005 and 2016, the shift away from coal saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of cropsCredit:...
Astronomers spot distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and V. Tilvi (ASU) An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found...
Story tips: Weather days, grid balance and scaling reactors
From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National LaboratoryCredit: Southern Company Energy - Whatever the weather To better determine the...
In a nearby galaxy, a fast radio burst unravels more questions than answers
Credit: Danielle Futselaar (artsource.nl) For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast...
NASA’s Hubble surveys gigantic galaxy
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville) This majestic spiral galaxy might earn the nickname the "Godzilla...
Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima
Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zoneCredit: UGA Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima,...
NASA’s great observatories help astronomers build a 3D visualization of an exploded star
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI) and R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning...
Hubble surveys gigantic galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville). To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
Scientists develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets
Technique could speed search for life in outer spaceCredit: (NASA/GSFC/Friedlander-Griswold) Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in...
Formation of a huge underwater volcano offshore the Comoros
Seismologists of the GFZ observe processes in the upper mantle for the first time before the formation of an enormous...
Power dressing
The mechanical and thermoelectrical self-healing process of the composite film. Wearable electronics could be perpetually powered by stretchy, self-mending materials...
Researchers create nanoscale sensors to better see how high pressure affects materials
Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure...
Laser pulse creates frequency doubling in amorphous dielectric material
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Researchers have demonstrated a new all-optical technique for creating robust second-order nonlinear effects in materials...
Task force recommends changes to increase African-American physics and astronomy students
Report focuses on five factors, includes recommendations for changeCredit: AIP WASHINGTON, January 5, 2020 -- Due to long-term and systemic...
Sublimation, not melting: Graphene surprises researchers again
Credit: MIPT Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the...
The case of the elusive Majorana: The so-called ‘angel particle’ is still a mystery
Credit: Cui-zu Chang, Penn State A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion--the chiral Majorana...
