Chemistry
Methane-consuming bacteria could be the future of fuel
Discovery illuminates how bacteria turn methane gas into liquid methanolCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- Known for their ability to...
Discovery may lead to new materials for next-generation data storage
Army-funded research demonstrates emergent chirality in polar skyrmions for the first time in oxide superlatticesCredit: Courtesy of Xiaoxing Cheng, Pennsylvania...
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the...
Substrate defects key to growth of 2D materials
Credit: Xiaotian Zhang/Penn State Creating two-dimentional materials large enough to use in electronics is a challenge despite huge effort but...
How the cytoplasm separates from the yolk
Cooperation of cell biologists and physicists at IST Austria unravels physical basis of yolk-cytoplasm segregation in early fish embryo; study...
Smart drug design to prevent malaria treatment resistance
Malaria treatment resistance could be avoided by studying how resistance evolves during drug development, according to a new paper published...
Secrets of fluorescent microalgae could lead to super-efficient solar cells
Credit: University of Birmingham Tiny light-emitting microalgae, found in the ocean, could hold the secret to the next generation of...
Innovative mechanobiology research expands understanding of cells
New technology allows researchers to probe cell changes without disturbing the cell's physiologyCredit: Cell Reports Researchers have developed a new...
‘Fire streaks’ ever more real in the collisions of atomic nuclei and protons
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN, Dual Color Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be...
Recipients of Gruber Foundation 2019 Cosmology Prize announced
Nicholas Kaiser and Joseph Ivor Silk are honoured for their seminal work on cosmological structure formation and dark matterCredit: Gruber...
Marcus regime in organic devices: Interfacial charge transfer mechanism verified
Credit: Frank Ortmann Charge transfer processes play a fundamental role in all electronic and optoelectronic devices. For devices based on...
Researchers create ‘force field’ for super materials
Researchers have developed a revolutionary method to intricately grow and protect some of the world's most exciting nanomaterials - graphene...
New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the universe
Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe's earliest galaxies were...
Scientists discover a new class of single-atom nanozymes
Credit: DONG Shaojun Nanozymes - catalytic nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics - offer the advantage of low cost, high stability, tunable...
TB Alliance and partners form multidisciplinary center for translational TB drug research
New collaboration, supported by US National Institutes of Health, to produce two new clinical stage TB drug candidates NEW YORK,...
New treatment could become first targeted therapy designed for ‘untreatable’ childhood brain cancer
New type of drug shows promise in preclinical studies - with trials by an open science company expected to begin...
Winning projects for the 2019 Elsevier Foundation-ISC3 Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge
Top projects awarded for innovative wastewater treatments and solutions for ecosystem balanceCredit: Jürgen Lösel Dresden, May 9, 2019 - Two...
Strong signals
Electrical and computer engineering professor Loai Salem receives DARPA Young Faculty Award We've all felt the negative effects of radio...
ORNL, Lincoln Electric to advance large-scale metal additive manufacturing technology
Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 8, 2019--Oak Ridge National Laboratory and...
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick...