Chemistry
Berkeley Lab science snapshots April 2019
Credit: Berkeley Lab When there are multiple factors at play in a situation that is itself changing, such as an...
New polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
Material may replace many metals as lightweight, flexible heat dissipators in cars, refrigerators, and electronicsCredit: Image courtesy of Gang Chen...
Parasitoid wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code
Credit: Marcelo O. Gonzaga Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave...
Plant cells eat their own … membranes and oil droplets
Study IDs dual role for 'autophagy' -- a.k.a. 'self-eating' -- in building and breaking down plant oils; manipulating the process...
Astronomers discover 2,000-year-old remnant of a nova
Observation including Göttingen participation confirms one of the oldest Chinese measurementsCredit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, F Göttgens (IAG) For the first...
New 3D printed microscope promising for medical diagnostics in developing countries
Inexpensive, robust and portable microscope provides high-resolution 3D images of cells WASHINGTON -- Researchers have used 3D printing to make...
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
Credit: Hosono, Karato, Makino & Saitoh New Haven, Conn. - For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how...
GRACE mission data contributes to our understanding of climate change
The GRACE twin satellite system has contributed two decades worth of crucial data on climate changeCredit: Cockrell School Of Engineering,...
Researchers discover new charge transfer and separation process
SUTD worked with an international team of researchers to develop glutathione fluorescent probes based on the discovery of Twisted Intramolecular...
H3N2 viruses mutate during vaccine production but new tech could fix it
Credit: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In late March 2019, the World Health Organization and a vaccine advisory committee...
Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight
Credit: EPFL Hydrogen will play a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. It can be sustainably produced...
Dark matter exists: The observations which question its presence in galaxies disproved
Research conducted by SISSA clarifies one of the recent most intriguing controversies on the most widespread form of matter in...
Filaments and fibres three times finer than a human hair
In order to create them, scientists from the University of Seville have used technology that is generally used to produce...
Spinning black hole sprays light-speed plasma clouds into space
Credit: Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth. Published...
What a dying star’s ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system
A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their...
Partitioning of porous materials
Highly resorptive metal-organic frameworks can be constructed by a foresighted combination of two different synthetic principles Gases and pollutants can...
The search for nothing at all
What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinosCredit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing. The...
Are Canadians kept in the dark about new risks of medicines?
Government warnings about potential drug safety risks vary significantly across countries, according to a new international study co-authored by researchers...
Nanomicrocell catalysts: A new kind of highly efficient integrated catalyst system
Credit: ©Science China Press Chemical reactions are involving directional migration of electrons and charged intermediates, depending on the redox potentials...
Carbon nanotube nanoreactors to stabilize metastable structures
Credit: ©Science China Press Various metastable structures are usually found in the phase diagram of most materials. Some structures can...
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