Chemistry
IU team identifies potential target for restoring movement after spinal cord injury
Credit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have made several novel discoveries in...
Using a material’s ‘memory’ to encode unique physical properties
A new study shows that, as materials age, they 'remember' prior stresses and external forces, which scientists and engineers can...
From 3D to 2D and back: Reversible conversion of lipid spheres into ultra-thin sheets
Credit: Tokyo Tech An astonishing number of recent technological advances and novel engineering applications go hand in hand with progress...
Counting photons is now routine enough to need standards
Credit: J. Burrus/NIST Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built its first superconducting devices for counting photons...
NIST study suggests universal method for measuring light power
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National...
Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles
Physicists extend Rice Convection Model with details of magnetospheric buoyancy wavesCredit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2019) - The...
SLAS Discovery releases first issue of 2020
Featured article, 'The National Cancer Institute's Plated Compound Sets Can Be a Valuable Resource for Academic Researchers,' now availableCredit: David...
How plant metabolites affect the ecosystem
German Research Foundation (DFG) funds new research unitCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University Plants are often very individual when it comes to...
What will you do with your body after you die? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2019 -- After you die, your body has quite a few options...
Electron pulser for ultrafast electron microscopy wins 2019 R&D 100 award
This low-cost laser-free device can be retrofit into conventional transmission electron microscopes to image the dynamic behaviors of energy and...
Why are alloy metal nanoparticles better than monometallic ones for CNT growth?
Revealing a long-term mystery of why certain nanoparticles are more efficient in incorporating carbon atoms and achieving a faster carbon...
Space-time metasurface makes light reflect only in one direction
Credit: by Xuexue Guo, Yimin Ding, Yao Duan, and Xingjie Ni Light propagation is usually reciprocal meaning that the trajectory...
Could every country have a Green New Deal? Stanford report charts paths for 143 countries
Credit: Jacobson et al. / One Earth Ten years after the publication of their first plan for powering the world...
The Demon in the Machine is named physics book of the year in UKM
Credit: Arizona State University Paul Davies' newest book, The Demon in the Machine, takes aim at one of the great...
No storm in a teacup — it’s a cyclone on a silicon chip
Credit: Dr. Christopher Baker University of Queensland researchers have combined quantum liquids and silicon-chip technology to study turbulence for the...
Playing the angles with dramatic effect
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Phase transitions have long been of crucial importance to scientific research. The change from water to...
A step closer to understanding evolution — mitochondrial division conserved across species
New study shows exactly how the manner in which mitochondria divide has remained the same since evolution beganCredit: Tokyo University...
An atomic view of the trigger for the heartbeat
Structural studies of sodium channels disclose details about how they power heartbeats and respond to heart rhythm drugs.Credit: Catterall and...
Advancing information processing with exceptional points and surfaces
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are exceptional in many respects....
Scientists find iron ‘snow’ in Earth’s core
Credit: University of Texas at Austin/Jackson School of Geosciences The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped,...
