Chemistry
Silver improves the efficiency of monograin layer solar cells
Credit: Professor Jüri Krustok As a result of their two-year joint project, the materials researchers of Tallinn University of Technology...
She uses mushroom enzyme and light to create green chemicals
By combining nature's own reactions, Associate Professor Selin Kara from the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University aims to develop...
New findings on satiety signaling from intestine
Credit: Photo by University of Gothenburg A previously unknown mechanism that suppresses satiety signals from the small intestine is the...
Insects’ drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots
An experiment involving gluing a tiny thrip's wing to a self-sensing microcantilever was confirmed using 3D computational fluid dynamics simulationsCredit:...
New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second
Technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the absence of resistance,...
New aluminium hydroxide stable at extremely high pressure
Credit: Ehime Univeristy Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and it plays important roles in the structure,...
Common genetic link between autism and Tourette’s impairs brain communication
Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University researchers have discovered, for the first time, how a genetic alteration that increases the risk...
The Antarctic: study from Kiel provides data about the structure of the icy continent
European Space Agency publishes a 3D model of the AntarcticCredit: © Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions) The Antarctic is one...
Regional trends in overdose deaths reveal multiple opioid epidemics, according to new study
Credit: David Peters AMES, Iowa - The United States is suffering from several different simultaneous opioid epidemics, rather than just...
New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry
Discovery may inspire development of better industrial catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven...
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
'Game-changing' idea: Don't burn hydrocarbons, split them into hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materialsCredit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON...
SwRI wins two R&D 100 Awards
Superhydrophobic coating, direction-finding antenna honored for innovationCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Dec. 9, 2019 -- Two Southwest Research...
Award to create clinical solution for life-threatening preemie condition
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National...
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structure
Credit: @tsarcyanide, MIPT Press Office Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy...
A tech jewel: Converting graphene into diamond film
Synthesis of the thinnest possible diamond-like material starting from bilayer graphene and without high pressureCredit: IBS Can two layers of...
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out the origins of planetsCredit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser and Felix Jungmann Scientists may...
Breakthrough made in detecting carbon impurities in gallium nitride crystals via light
Credit: Kazunobu Kojima Carbon impurity has long hindered efficiency in nitride-based electronic and optical devices. But Researchers at Tohoku University,...
Green hydrogen: Research to enhance efficiency
HZDR experiment comes up with important steps towards optimizing water electrolysisCredit: HZDR / Stephan Floss Laboratory experiments and a parabolic...
Nanowire detects Abrikosov vortices
Credit: Evgeniy Pelevin, MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and...
Scientists find further evidence for a population of dark matter deficient dwarf galaxies
Credit: NAOC Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University...
