Chemistry
New plastic vaporizes when heated, then reforms upon cooling
A plastic that can disappear into a vapour when gently heated and then rebuild itself as a solid when cooled...
SUNY Chancellor King Announces Simons Empire Faculty Fellowship Recipients
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr. has announced the inaugural class of Simons Empire Faculty Fellows,...
KTU chemists create dual-action compounds targeting cancer and infections
Cancer treatment is rarely limited to the cancer itself. Patients with advanced disease may also develop bacterial or fungal infections,...
Switchable smart gel could enable next-generation drug delivery and sensing technologies
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created a molecular gel that can be switched between a solid-like state and...
How Curvature Shapes the World Around Us
Scientists have developed a new framework for understanding how active materials behave when they are forced to live on curved...
TUM develops single-photon sources to advance quantum communication
A New Way to Build Single-Photon Sources Could Make Quantum Networks More Practical Quantum communication has long promised a radically...
Scientists visualize nanoscale forces, confirming electric fields at the air–water interface
Bubbles may look simple, but at the boundary where air meets water, forces that are invisible at everyday scales can...
Listening in on dolphins reveals acoustic clues to food and friendship hotspots
For dolphins living along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the ocean is far more than a physical landscape. It is an acoustic...
Signals Recruit and Dispatch Components Across Reconfigurable Phase-Separated Protocell Networks
A new study has brought scientists one step closer to building artificial cell communities that can sense signals, reorganize themselves...
Freeze-Drying Method Reveals Bacterial Ultrastructure in Scanning Electron Microscopy
Scanning electron microscopy has long offered microbiologists an exceptionally detailed view of bacterial surfaces, but the instrument’s vacuum environment creates...
From Glass Interfaces to 3D Flow Networks: Engineering Catalysts Across Scales
Water splitting is often described as a simple recipe: apply electricity to water, and hydrogen and oxygen emerge. In practice,...
Long-range magnetism controls ferrimagnets’ approach to phase transitions
Kyoto, Japan — A new study has identified a rare magnetic transition in which the familiar rules of mean-field theory...
3D-Printed Cellulose Hydrogel Keeps Wearable Sensors Flexible Below Freezing
Flexible wearable electronics may soon become far less vulnerable to winter conditions, thanks to a cellulose-based hydrogel that continues to...
AI uncovers elemental clues behind persistent free radicals in biochar
Biochar may look like little more than charcoal, but inside its carbon-rich structure it can harbor chemically active species that...
Natural leaf coatings could help hydrochar store carbon more effectively
Hydrochar, a carbon-rich material made by processing wet plant biomass in hot, pressurized water, may have a hidden defense system...
Quantum Light Engines Could Power a New Generation of Microscopic Machines
What happens when a heat engine is reduced to a single atom interacting with particles of light? The question may...
Machine learning accelerates climate solutions from ideas to real-world impact
AI-Guided Materials Discovery Produces New Methane-Capture Frameworks A new machine-learning-guided workflow has produced two promising materials for separating methane from...
Labrador Sea Helps Supply Oxygen Supporting Life in the Deep North Atlantic
ITHACA, N.Y. — A region of the North Atlantic often treated as a supporting player in the ocean’s vast circulation...
From Google to ChatGPT: How Students Now Search for Knowledge
A Quiet Revolution in Physics Learning: Students Are Moving from Google to Generative AI Students across the world appear to...
Protein-Foldamer Building Blocks Enable Self-Assembling Hybrid Architectures
A new molecular design strategy is bringing two traditionally separate worlds of chemistry together: proteins, nature’s highly evolved molecular machines,...