Chemistry
Quantum computing boost from vapour stabilising technique
The patented technique allows electrons to be used for quantum computing, high-precision measurements and other applications A technique to stabilise...
Coming to your household soon: 3-D food printers, nano foods and bug burgers
UMass Amherst food scientist's new book, 'Future Foods,' explores how science is transforming the way we eatCredit: David Julian McClements...
Energy storage in the Midwest and beyond: A timely analysis
From three MRS Energy & Sustainability papers As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released an update to last year's...
On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
In the most detailed analysis of how sands move around on Mars, a team of planetary scientists led by the...
Of strawberry jelly and earthquakes: Space station investigation studies colloids
A new International Space Station investigation, Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-10, is using temperature changes to better understand how colloids -- or...
Removing carbon dioxide from an air stream
UD engineers develop a fuel cell system that helps environmentCredit: Photo by Evan Krape Someday, we all might drive zero-emission...
Carnegie Mellon researchers create soft, flexible materials with enhanced properties
Left: A single liquid metal nanodroplet grafted with polymer chains. Right: Schematic of polymer brushes grafted from the oxide layer...
Chemical juggling with three particles
Bonn University and Columbia University chemists discover novel, sustainable reaction mechanismCredit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Chemists from the University...
Karen Fischer wins top honor in seismology
Credit: Karen Fischer SAN FRANCISCO--The Seismological Society of America (SSA) will present its highest honor, the 2019 Harry Fielding Reid...
Trace metal exposure among pregnant women living near fracking wells in Canada
The Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology last week revealed the findings of a 2016 pilot study that measured...
Climate change affects the genetic diversity of a species
An analysis of the alpine marmot's genomeCredit: Carole and Denis Favre-Bonvin What effects does climate change have on the genetic...
Why you should care about better fiber optics
Fiber optic research can give us better medical equipment, improved environmental monitoring, more media channels -- and maybe better solar...
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the...
A ‘crisper’ method for gene editing in fungi
Scientists devise a novel genome editing method for filamentous fungi, based on the CRISPR/Cas9 platform CRISPR/Cas9 is now a household...
Russian scientists discover one of the mechanisms of water formation on the moon
The discovery will help analyse the processes occurring near the lunar surface The results of recent study conducted by the...
Could there be life without carbon? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 23, 2019 -- One element is the backbone of all forms of life...
Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’
Credit: Junji Yuhara Two-dimensional materials made of Group 14 elements, graphene's cousins, have attracted enormous interest in recent years because...
Progress in hunt for unknown compounds in drinking water
When we drink a glass of water, we ingest an unknown amount of by-products that are formed in the treatment...
New understanding of how cells form tunnels may help in treating wounds, tumors
Credit: Virginia Tech A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into...
Rare volcanic rocks lift lid on dangers of little-studied eruptions
Credit: Ben Clarke Unusual rocks discovered on a remote mountainside have alerted scientists to the dangers posed by a little-studied...