Chemistry
Clusters of gold atoms form peculiar pyramidal shape
Credit: KU Leuven Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of...
Supercharging tomorrow: Monash develops world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur battery
Credit: Monash University Monash University researchers have developed the world's most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for...
Color superlensing to assist in surpassing diffraction barrier
A paper by Kazan Federal University's Sergey Kharintsev appeared in Optics LettersCredit: Kazan Federal University The research was supported by...
Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
Credit: University of Sussex. The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are...
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
Rice study reveals details about how coiled coils may coil again to direct chromosome processCredit: Dana Krepel/Rice University HOUSTON -...
Stanford researchers build a particle accelerator that fits on a chip
Just as desktop PCs acquired some of the functions performed by room-sized mainframes, a Stanford team has prototyped a silicon...
GMRT discovers a gigantic ring of hydrogen gas around a distant galaxy
Credit: O. Bait (NCRA-TIFR/GMRT), Duc (ObAS/CFHT) A team of astronomers at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune,...
MIPT physicists find ways to overcome signal loss in magnonic circuits
Credit: Image courtesy of Dmitry Kalyabin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering...
How the brain balances pleasure and pain
Credit: Li lab/CSHL, 2019 As our brains take in information about the world and use it to steer our actions,...
Topological semimetals can generate sizable transverse thermoelectric figure of merit
Credit: ©Science China Press The thermoelectric conversion efficiency of a particular material is determined by the value of its thermoelectric...
Strategies to generate larger pores in metal-organic frameworks
Credit: ©Science China Press Due to the advantages such as large specific surface area, adjustable pore size and tunable functionality,...
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Credit: Matthew Dillon/Flickr Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It's one of the six main chemical elements of life,...
Harnessing hot carriers for high efficiency solar cells
Credit: © 2019 Jun Yin Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way to extract more energy from sunlight. By tuning...
New insights into the earliest events of seed germination
Thiol redox switches regulate how plant seeds use their stored energy reserves / Study published in "PNAS"Credit: Bettina Richter Plant...
Using deep learning to predict disease-associated mutations
HKU scientists develop a deep learning approach to predict disease-associated mutations of the metal-binding sitesCredit: @The University of Hong Kong...
Full noncontact laser ultrasound: First human data
Credit: by Xiang Zhang, Jonathan R. Fincke, Charles M. Wynn, Matt R. Johnson, Robert W. Haupt, Brian W. Anthony For...
East Asia VLBI Network observations of the TeV Gamma-Ray Burst 190114C
Credit: ©Science China Press Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), generated in distant galaxies, is the most energetic astronomical event in the Universe....
Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in...
A molecular map of the brain’s decision-making area
Credit: Juan Perez Fernandez Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have come one step closer toward understanding how the part of our...
Large scale feasts at ancient capital of Ulster drew crowds from across Iron Age Ireland
Study explores scale of human mobility through analysis of animal bonesCredit: Dr Richard Madgwick People transported animals over huge distances...
