Chemistry
Towards sustainability — from a by-product of the biodiesel industry to a valuable chemical
Credit: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Tokyo Tech Although governments, academia, and organizations all around the world have been emphasizing the...
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say Princeton scientists
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain...
APS Tip Sheet: Improving quantum information processing
A new protocol compares the closeness of quantum states in information sent from different devicesCredit: Credit: APS Journals January 6,...
APS Tip Sheet: Trudging until take-off
Allowing slower airplane passengers to board first decreases total boarding timeCredit: Credit: APS Journals December 27, 2019 - With packed...
APS tip sheet: Spaghetti’s impastable behavior
How noodles' mechanical properties control the way they softenCredit: APS Journals January 2, 2020 - Boiling water turns spaghetti from...
Virus surfaces help MTU engineers study vaccine and gene therapy applications
Credit: Jess Brassard/Michigan Tech Viruses are not easy to characterize. But we need to because being able to quickly predict...
Are some antidepressants less risky for pregnant women?
A research team at INRS studies the effects of antidepressants on the placentaCredit: Cathy Vaillancourt laboratory (INRS) Montreal, January 8...
Catalytic protocells get zingy
Credit: Dr. Pierangelo Gobbo and Dr. B. Pavan Kumar, University of Bristol Artificial cells capable of oxygen gas production and...
Milestone in Advanced Light Source upgrade project will bring in a new ring
Construction of innovative accumulator ring as part of ALS-U project will keep Berkeley Lab at the forefront of synchrotron light...
Smartphone cameras can speed up urinary tract infection diagnosis
New 25-minute test could simplify initial diagnosis of urinary tract infections and assist in the fight against the global threat...
Developed a band-aid-like sensor to detect human body conditions in real-time
Dramatically improved sensor stability with complex structural design that mimics snake motions, spider webs, and paper craft Expected to be...
Complete filling of batches of nanopipettes
Credit: Kanazawa University Nanopipettes, in which a nanoscale channel is filled with a solution, are used in all kinds of...
LED lighting in greenhouses helps but standards are needed
Rutgers research reveals information gaps on LED lighting for indoor cropsCredit: A.J. Both/Rutgers University-New Brunswick While LED lighting can enhance...
Nano antennas for data transfer
Credit: Department of Physics / JMU Directional antennas convert electrical signals to radio waves and emit them in a particular...
Cosmic bubbles reveal the first stars
Astronomers detect first stars 'bubbling out' from the cosmic dark agesCredit: V. Tilvi et al./NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/AURA...
The Milky Way’s impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars
Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic CloudsCredit:...
New map of Milky Way reveals giant wave of stellar nurseries
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxyCredit: Alyssa Goodman / Harvard University...
Army selects 20 small businesses, research partners for tech development
Credit: US Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The U.S. Army selected 20 small businesses and their nonprofit research institution...
Scientists capture for first time, light flashes from human eye during radiotherapy
What are the flashes of light patients report seeing during brain radiotherapy? Dartmouth scientists capture this phenomenon for the first...
UTEP professor named a 2019 National Academy of Inventors fellow
Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre / UTEP Communications Ryan Wicker, Ph.D., director and founder of The University of Texas at El...