Chemistry
UMD-Led researchers’ wood-based technology creates electricity from heat
UMD developed wood-based membrane someday may turn body heat into electricity COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A University of Maryland-led team...
Matter waves and quantum splinters
Physicists shatter Bose-Einstein condensate, get different pieces every time Physicists in the United States, Austria and Brazil have shown that...
A fascinating phase transition: From one liquid state to another
Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A team at The University...
Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms
Astrophysicists observe physics phenomena in gas streamsCredit: Hinode JAXA/NASA Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a...
New cellulose-based material gives three sensors in one
A multiparameter Pressure-Temperature-Humidity Sensor based on Mixed Ionic-Electronic Cellulose AerogelsCredit: Thor Balkhed Cellulose soaked in a carefully designed polymer mixture...
Traffic control of cells
Credit: Graphic: Jo Richers Cells in the human body can display remarkable differences in their behaviour depending on the mechanical...
Listening to the quantum vacuum
Credit: Elsa Hahne, LSU Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light...
Ascribe Bioscience receives SBIR award from NSF
New agbiotech startup company based on technology developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute is developing a novel seed treatment technology...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower...
First textbook in marine renewable energy explores harnessing ocean power
URI professor co-authors offshore renewable energy bookCredit: (URI photo/Michael Salerno) KINGSTON, R.I., -- March 21, 2019 - Offshore renewable energy...
Studying plasma physics in exploding stars — NSF CAREER award
Credit: Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan of the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering has been...
Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing
Credit: Weiss Laboratory, Penn State A new method allows the quantum state of atomic "qubits"--the basic unit of information in...
Team led by Stanford and MIT predicts the useful life of batteries with data and AI
Credit: Younghee Lee/CUBE3D Graphic If manufacturers of cell-phone batteries could tell which cells will last at least two years, then...
Bacterial population growth rate linked to how individual cells control their size
When family weddings all seem to coincide with one another, the phenomenon happens for a reason. An individual and their...
The unconventional life of physics genius Richard Feynman
Feynman and his PhysicsCredit: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Feynman's revolutionary discoveries and pioneering work in the fields of quantum theory...
New properties of perovskite solar cells
Researchers evaluated the prospects for their use in space Employees of the Department of Electrophysics at the Institute of Physics...
Searching for disappeared anti-matter: A successful start to measurements with Belle II
Credit: KEK/Belle II The Belle II detector got off to a successful start in Japan. Since March 25, 2019, the...
ELSI scientist constructs artificial photosynthetic cells
New system paves the way to construct energetically-independent artificial cellsCredit: Nature Communications A team led by associate professor Yutetsu Kuruma...
Icy giant planets in the laboratory
HZDR researchers use plastics to better understand what happens inside planetsCredit: HZDR / J. Vorberger Giant planets like Uranus and...
Scientists squeeze catalysts inside host materials like a ship into a bottle
Credit: Jingwei Hou Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have found a way to place catalysts inside the tiniest...