Chemistry
Carbon-neutral fuels move a step closer
Chemists at EPFL have developed an efficient process for converting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide The carbon dioxide (CO2) produced...
Gut microbes eat our medication
A concrete example of how one species of bacteria consumes levodopa, the primary treatment for Parkinson's disease, could reveal more...
Research reveals liquid gold on the nanoscale
Researchers have mapped how gold nanoparticles meltCredit: Swansea University. The research published in Nature Communications set out to answer a...
NASA’s Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray...
Concert of magnetic moments
Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Jan-Philipp Hanke An international collaboration between researchers from Germany, the Netherlands, and South Korea has uncovered...
Earth’s heavy metals result of supernova explosion, University of Guelph Research Reveals
That gold on your ring finger is stellar - and not just in a complimentary way. In a finding that...
Researcher identifies adjuvant that prevents vaccine-enhanced respiratory disease in RSV
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A unique adjuvant, a substance that enhances the body's immune response to toxins and foreign matter,...
Hubble observes tiny galaxy with big heart
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big...
X and gamma rays –Even more powerful
International group of researchers including scientists from Skoltech have invented a new method for the generation of intense X and...
Laser trick produces high-energy terahertz pulses
Milestone for compact particle acceleratorsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin A team of scientists from DESY and the University of Hamburg has...
A metal-free, sustainable approach to CO2 reduction
Credit: Ken Motokura Researchers in Japan present an organic catalyst for carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction that is inexpensive, readily available...
Perfect diamagnetism observation of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed H2S
Credit: ©Science China Press The discovery of the extremely high superconducting temperature (Tc) of ~200 K reported in the sulfur...
New record: 3D-printed optical-electronic integration
Credit: ©Science China Press Optoelectronic integration offers a promising strategy to simultaneously obtain the merits of electrons and photons when...
Can break junction techniques still offer quantitative information at single-molecule level
Credit: ©Science China Press Single-molecule break junction techniques offer unique insights into the charge transport at the molecular level. The...
New quantum dot microscope shows electric potentials of individual atoms
Credit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Christian Wagner A team of researchers from Jülich in cooperation with the University of Magdeburg...
University of Konstanz researchers create uniform-shape polymer nanocrystals
Researchers from the University of Konstanz's CRC 1214 'Anisotropic Particles as Building Blocks: Tailoring Shape, Interactions and Structures' generate uniform-shape...
Small currents for big gains in spintronics
A new low-power magnetic switching component could aid spintronic devicesCredit: © 2019 Tanaka-Ohya Laboratory UTokyo researchers have created an electronic...
Breathing new life into dye-sensitized solar cells
Japanese researchers are poised to reboot the field of aromatic-fused porphyrin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, the most efficient solar...
Soon, air pollution could be measured on every street corner
Credit: Insplorion/Johan Bodell Air pollution is responsible for 550,000 premature deaths a year in Europe - and 7 million worldwide,...
A microscopic topographic map of cellular function
A decade of research leads MU scientists to a better understanding of how materials move out of cellsCredit: University of...
