Chemistry
It’s electric: WVU breaks new ground in developing transportable, carbon-neutral energy source
Credit: Paige Nesbit/West Virginia University Electricity is something we rarely think about -- we expect it to be there, flowing...
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problem
Credit: Tokyo Tech Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations...
A new stable form of plutonium discovered at the ESRF
Credit: Kristina Kvashnina An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound...
Nobel Laureate Prof. John B. Goodenough discusses lithium-ion batteries in Science China Chemistry
Credit: (a) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (b)Chemical Reviews, The American Chemical Society. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
Nitrogen-embedded polycyclic compound with strong antiaromaticity and stability
Expedited approach toward antiaromatic compoundsCredit: Figure Adapted with Permission from Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, 141. © 2019...
University of Hawaii team unravels origin, chemical makeup of Titan’s dunes
Credit: University of Hawaii A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been...
‘Flamenco dancing’ molecule could lead to better-protecting sunscreen
Credit: created by Dr Michael Horbury Molecule that protects plants from overexposure to light repurposed as a UV filter for...
Energy flow in the nano range
Credit: Images: Björn Kriete (l.) / Stefan Mueller (r.) Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy...
Researcher invents an easy-to-use technique to measure the hydrophobicity of micro- and nanoparticle
Credit: Copyright American Chemical Society The scientific and industrial communities who work with micro- and nanoparticles continue to labor with...
When added to gene therapy, plant-based compound may enable faster, more effective treatments
Scripps Research team finds that a nontoxic molecule closely related to resveratrol can overcome barriers to delivering gene therapy into...
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
Researchers open a new avenue to quantum computing with a breakthrough experiment: a large-scale quantum processor made entirely of lightCredit:...
Blanket of light may give better quantum computers
Researchers from DTU Physics describe in an article in Science, how -- by simple means -- they have created a...
New insights into the structure and function of Cdc34, a target for cancer therapeutics
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina Some of the greatest insights into cancer and how to treat it...
Embryo’s early development revealed in a dish
Unique Rice platform helps bioscientists learn how ectoderm cells begin to differentiateCredit: Warmflash Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 17, 2019)...
How roots grow hair
'Smoke detectors' in plants also control the growth of root hairCredit: Andreas Battenberg / TUM The roots of plants can...
Figuring out Alzheimer’s
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski One of the tasks of the scientists work is to explain how the world functions....
Stormy cluster weather could unleash black hole power and explain lack of cosmic cooling
Credit: Hubble and Chandra Image: NASA, ESA, CXC, STScI, and B. McNamara (University of Waterloo); Very Large Array Telescope Image:...
What happens under the Yellowstone Volcano
Study provides information about the processes deep inside the EarthCredit: Steinberger et al. The Yellowstone National Park in the USA...
Double layer of graphene helps to control spin currents
New type of transistor one step closerCredit: S. Omar, University of Groningen In order to make transistors that operate using...
Always on beat: ultrashort flashes of light under optical control
Scientists from the University of Bayreuth and the University of Göttingen have discovered a new methodCredit: University of Bayreuth Ultrashort...
