Chemistry

April 13, 2026

Taking a new tangent to control pesky waves in fusion plasmas

New theory could help overcome a significant barrier to achieving fusion powerCredit: NSTX-U collaboration. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Fusion combines light elements...

Making connections: Bringing astrophysical processes down to Earth

New supercomputer simulations explore magnetic reconnection and make a surprising discovery.Credit: Jackson Matteucci and Will Fox Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--Magnetic reconnection,...

Taking new angle to enable more efficient, compact fusion power plants

New microwave injection system at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility doubles current-drive efficiency and demonstrates for the first time efficient...

Island retreat: Fuel injection helps reduce magnetic island instabilities

Injecting pellets of frozen hydrogen fuel into the plasma of a fusion reactor helps repair tears in the surrounding magnetic...

New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmas

Understanding fast ions, critical to heating plasmas, could help turn a liability into an assetCredit: DIII-D National Fusion Facility. Fort...

World record acceleration: Zero to 7.8 billion electron volts in 8 inches

New technique doubles the highest electron energy ever produced by a laser plasma accelerator, bringing the promise of tera electron...

A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is made

Probing nucleosynthesis in star-like conditions using the world's biggest laser at NIFCredit: Don Jedlovec, LLNL Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--On a typical...

Real texture for lab-grown meat

Researchers grow muscle cells on edible fibersCredit: Harvard University Lab-grown or cultured meat could revolutionize food production, providing a greener,...

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

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