Chemistry
Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant
Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy...
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November...
‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable
First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is...
Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets
Credit: Graphic courtesy Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang Lab CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- New research by engineers at the University of Illinois...
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environmentCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have long been puzzled...
Rational transparent conductor design provides a boost to carbon nanotubes application
Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for...
AI for plant breeding in an ever-changing climate
ORNL's Dan Jacobson and team design algorithms for climate-resilient cropsCredit: Pixabay How might artificial intelligence (AI) impact agriculture, the food...
Printed metal conductors may be next-generation electronic displays
$1m grant from DOE funds Pitt researcher and electroninks project using metal ink for OLEDsCredit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH...
Researchers capture moving object with ghost imaging
By using information from blurry images to create clear reconstructions, new method could expand applications for ghost imagingCredit: Wei-Tao Liu,...
Distant worlds under many suns
University of Jena astrophysicist discovers numerous multiple star systems with exoplanetsCredit: (Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Is Earth the only habitable planet...
The smell of old books could help preserve them
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b01279 Old books give off a complex mélange of odors, ranging from pleasant...
A new facial analysis method detects genetic syndromes with high precision and specificity
Developed by Araceli Morales, Gemma Piella and Federico Sukno, members of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, together with...
Artificial intelligence to run the chemical factories of the future
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new proof-of-concept study details how an automated system driven by...
Few-cycle pulses break the 300 W barrier
Credit: MBI A team led by researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI),...
Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Credit: HZB Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid...
Epitaxially-grown molybdenum oxide advances as a bulk-like 2D dielectric layer
Credit: JongHoon Kim Since the successful isolation of graphene from bulk graphite, remarkable properties of graphene have attracted many scientists...
The environmental cost of cryptocurrency mines
UNM team assesses monetary price of health and air quality impactsCredit: University of New Mexico Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero...
Elucidation of cause of electromagnetic noise allows for EM noise-less electric circuits
Researchers from Osaka University developed equations for quantifying electromagnetic interference (EM noise) and elucidated its origin, allowing for the best...
AI to determine when to intervene with your driving
Credit: KAIST Can your AI agent judge when to talk to you while you are driving? According to a KAIST...
Stretchable, degradable semiconductors
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00850 To seamlessly integrate electronics with the natural world, materials are needed...
