Chemistry
New discovery makes fast-charging, better performing lithium-ion batteries possible
Materials could boost battery performance in consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and moreCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- Creating a...
Continuing PC vaccine in Kenya at full price cost-effective and could save thousands of lives
Stopping the vaccine could lead to rates of pneumonia and pneumococcal disease returning to pre-vaccine levels in 10 years Co-led...
UTSA faculty receive $2 million in CAREER Awards to advance research
Credit: The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, April 16, 2019) - Four University of Texas at San...
New microscopy technique peers deep into the brain
Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University In order to understand the brain, scientists must be able...
Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
The first-of-its-kind nanogenerator designed by UCLA researchers and colleagues also acts as a weather stationCredit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA UCLA researchers and...
13th annual Canadian neuroscience meeting
The Scientific Program Committee, chaired by Paul Frankland and co-chair Ruth Slack, along with local chair Julie Lefebvre, have put...
Historic logging site shows first human-caused bedrock erosion along an entire river
Credit: Sarah Schanz/Indiana University Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But...
Rice advances the art of protein blacksmithing
Researchers forge new computational tools to make more accurate predictions of protein structuresCredit: Rice University/Wikipedia HOUSTON - (April 15, 2019)...
Synthetic peptide can inhibit toxicity, aggregation of protein in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's is a disease of aggregation. Neurons in the human brain make a protein called amyloid beta. Such proteins on...
Graphene gives a tremendous boost to future terahertz cameras
A study in Nano Letters reports on the development of a graphene-enabled detector for terahertz light that is faster and...
World’s first-ever 3D-printed high-strength aluminum
Aluminum Association creates registration system for additive alloys beginning with HRL's first-ever 3D-printed high-strength aluminumCredit: HRL Laboratories HRL Laboratories, LLC,...
Meteoroid strikes eject precious water from moon
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland,...
SLAC’s high-speed ‘electron camera’ films molecular movie in HD
First direct look at how atoms move when a ring-shaped molecule breaks apart could boost our understanding of fundamental processes...
DOE announces $95 million for small business research and development grants
86 grants will support scientific innovation U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry today announced that the Department of Energy will award...
Army scientists lead the way to produce tools for engineering biomolecules
Credit: Courtesy of Autumn Kulaga, CCDC Army Research Laboratory Army scientists have discovered how to build novel synthetic biomolecule complexes...
Rumford Prize for Georg Nagel
Credit: Picture: American Academy of Arts and Sciences The field of optogenetics was named "Breakthrough of the Decade" by the...
Russian scientists alter 3D genome using ‘small molecules’
Credit: Omar Kantidze Researchers have discovered that the spatial organization of the genome can be altered using small molecule compounds...
New compound allows bacterial communication to be controlled by light
Credit: Dusan Kolarski, University of Groningen Scientists from the University of Groningen have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into...
Novel approach promises ready access to hard-to-study proteins
Credit: Artwork designed for this paper by graduate student Stanford Mitchell MADISON, Wis. -- DNA and the genome, we know,...
Asteroids help scientists to measure the diameters of faraway stars
New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic...
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