Chemistry
Preeclampsia treatment for mothers also benefits offspring
Findings could lead to therapies that lower health risks for children born to women with preeclampsiaCredit: Courtesy of Hannah Turbeville,...
Rocket fuel that’s cleaner, safer and still full of energy
Credit: McGill University Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create rocket fuel...
Getting to the bottom of the ‘boiling crisis’
New understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The...
New book about the IAU published
Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together...
Tidying up: A new way to direct trash to autophagy
Researchers find new way to clean up cells; discovery could aid attack on human disease Marie Kondo herself couldn't do...
How good are protein disorder prediction programs actually?
Credit: Dr. Jakob Toudahl and Assoc. Prof. Frans Mulder at Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University. Disorder...
Mystery of negative capacitance in perovskite solar cells solved
On the verge of outcompeting current thin-film solar cells, perovskite solar cells seem to embody an ideal solar cell: highly...
Compound that kills drug-resistant fungi is isolated from ant microbiota
A project conducted by researchers in Brazil and the US investigated bacteria living in symbiosis with insects as a source...
Peptides with brominated tryptophan analogs could protect marine animals
This article by Dr. Elsie C. Jimenez is published in Protein & Peptide Letters, volume 26, issue 4 , 2019...
About TFE: Old and new findings
This article by Dr. Marian Vincenzi et al. is published in Current Protein & Peptide Science, volume 20 , issue...
Harnessing the power of solar to enhance the electric grid
ASU to develop grid management tools to enhance power system reliability and resiliency Arizona State University researchers are set to...
Understanding microbial communities in fractured shales goal of NSF-sponsored project
Taking a deep dive into metabolic pathways introduced undergroundCredit: Mike Wilkins/Colorado State University Many invisible microbes like bacteria, fungi and...
Researchers create molecules with strong anti-Zika virus potential
The finding might also have application in developing anti-parasite and antibacterial treatments New York, April 4, 2019 - The Zika...
Liquid jets break up more readily on a substrate
Using computational models to investigate how liquid drops behave on surfaces Whether we're aware of it or not, in day-to-day...
Vitamin B12 is identified as the inhibitor of a key enzyme in hereditary Parkinson’s disease
It could be used as a basis to develop new therapies to combat hereditary Parkinson's Parkinson's is the most common,...
Through machine learning, new model holds water
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory While water is perceived to be one of the simplest substances in the world, modeling its...
And the blobs just keep on coming
Credit: Tom Bridgman/NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too...
The chemistry behind color-changing birds (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 04, 2019 -- There are thousands of species of birds here on Earth,...
HZB contributions to special edition on ultrafast dynamics with X-ray methods
Credit: Royal Society Almost 350 years after Isaac Newton's ground-breaking paper "Theory of Light and Colors (1671)", the world's oldest...
Catalyst research for solar fuels: Amorphous molybdenum sulfide works best
Credit: HZB Sunlight not only can be used to generate electricity, but also hydrogen. Hydrogen is a climate-neutral fuel that...