Chemistry
Cleaning our water with groundbreaking ‘bioinspired’ chemistry
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University The 20th and 21st centuries have seen an explosion in the use of synthetic chemicals worldwide,...
‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions
The molten rock that feeds volcanoes can be stored in the Earth's crust for as long as a thousand years,...
Metal oxide-infused membranes could offer low-energy alternative for chemical separations
Credit: Fengyi Zhang Chemical manufacturers consume a massive amount of energy each year separating and refining feedstocks to make a...
NASA’s Webb Telescope shines with American ingenuity
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center To send humans to the Moon 50 years ago, an entire nation rose...
A sharper focus: New computational technique resolves compressed X-ray data
Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne develops novel method to more clearly see complex materials physics in difficult-to-access environments....
The top five strangest poisons that can kill you (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 18, 2019 -- There are some crazy poisons in this world of ours,...
Coaching scientists to play well together
Free tool shows how to avoid fights over data and authorship conflicts 'You stole my idea' or 'I'm not getting...
Tiny vibration-powered robots are the size of the world’s smallest ant
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration...
Adding a polymer stabilizes collapsing metal-organic frameworks
Credit: Li Peng (EPFL) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a special class of sponge-like materials with nano-sized pores. The nanopores lead...
Genetic differences between strains of Epstein-Barr virus can alter its activity
Genetic differences between the two main strains of the blood cancer-triggering virus have been shown to change the way the...
Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in quantum chromodynamics simulations
A new Monte Carlo based simulation method enables more precise simulation for ensembles of elementary particles Over the last few...
The art of sensing within the skin
Dermal tattoo sensors for the detection of blood pH change and metabolite levels The art of tattooing may have found...
Biochemistry: Versatile recycling in the cell
New insights into ribosome recycling with enzyme ABCE1Credit: T. Cordes, LMU Munich Ribosomes are molecular machines that produce proteins in...
Simulations fix the cracks in magnetic mirrors
Computer simulations reveal that magnetic mirrors can be tweaked to confine plasma more effectively, by fine-tuning both the arrangements of...
‘Trojan horse’ anticancer drug disguises itself as fat
Promising system delivers chemo drug straight into tumors with fewer side effectsCredit: Nathan Gianneschi/Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- A stealthy...
Could the heat of the Earth’s crust become the ultimate energy source?
Credit: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Sachiko Matsushita In a world where energy consumption is on the rise, our only...
IceCube: Antarctic neutrino detector to get $37 million upgrade
MADISON, Wis. -- IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles...
Improving the odds of synthetic chemistry success
Credit: Jolene Reid and Matthew Sigman. Chemistry is more than just mixing compound A with compound B to make compound...
A new spin on DNA
DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machinesCredit: Pallav Kosuri/Zhuang Lab/Harvard University Every year, robots get more...
200 times faster than ever before: the speediest quantum operation yet
Credit: UNSW Sydney A group of scientists led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons have achieved the...
