Chemistry
UTA testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles
Reliable sensors for hypersonic flightCredit: UT Arlington Harsh environmental conditions--such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit--make it challenging...
Extra amino acid could work wonders
Rice University chemist uses designer amino acids in search for new curesCredit: Rice University Rice U. chemist uses designer amino...
Researchers make it possible for ultrasound to reveal gene expression in the body
Credit: Caltech Some of the most important tools in the toolbox of modern cell biologists are special chunks of DNA...
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington,...
Weird ideas for combating climate change (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2019 --There are things you can do right now to help our...
Turning heat into electricity: A new thermoelectric material developed at FEFU
Young scientists from FEFU manufactured new thermoelectric material based on strontium titanate and titanium oxideCredit: FEFU press-office Young scientists from...
US ATLAS phase I upgrade completed
Major upgrades to the ATLAS experiment at CERN will give unprecedented insight into open physics questionsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory The...
2019 Zavoisky Award goes to Hitoshi Ohta
A ceremony was held in Kazan City Hall on Sept. 26, 2019Credit: Kazan Federal University Dr. Ohta, Professor at Kobe...
Thermal siphon effect: heat flows from low temperature to high temperature
Credit: ©Science China Press Heat energy spontaneously goes from higher temperature to lower temperature. However, recently, a team from China...
Light in a new light
Creating different kinds of light with manipulable quantum propertiesCredit: Elsa Hahne, LSU In a paper published today in Nature's NPJ...
Genetic markers linked to the start of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
New therapeutic targetsCredit: University of Barcelona - UBNeuro Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro),...
Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech impact
New findings reveal many different structural models, which can eventually lead to developing more targeted antiviral vaccines.Credit: Antoni Luque, San...
A laser, a crystal and molecular structures
New tool uses wider light spectrum to identify moleculesCredit: Image by Takuro Ideguchi, CC BY-ND-4.0 Researchers have built a new...
Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
Credit: Hokkaido University An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated...
Oldest galaxy protocluster forms ‘queen’s court’
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection...
Shocking heat waves stabilize single atoms
Credit: Zhennan Huang and Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago Single atoms work...
Nearly 1 in 3 patients with lupus use prescription opioids for pain
Credit: Michigan Medicine Although there is little evidence that opioids effectively reduce pain from rheumatic diseases, a new study finds...
Galaxy surrounded by a halo of tranquil gas
Credit: OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology. Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in...
A planet that should not exist
Credit: © CARMENES/RenderArea/J. Bollaín/C. Gallego The red dwarf GJ 3512 is located 30 light-years from us. Although the star is...
Black hole shreds star, UH astronomer on discovery team
Credit: Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the...
