Tech makes it possible to digitally communicate through human touch
Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you...
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Chemists get peek at novel fluorescence
Rice University scientists discover delayed phenomenon in carbon nanotubesCredit: Illustration by Ching-Wei Lin/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 3, 2020) - That carbon nanotubes fluoresce is...
Titanium atom that exists in two places at once in crystal to blame for unusual phenomenon
Researchers discover why a perfect crystal is not good at conducting heat, although it seemingly should beCredit: Caltech/USC/ORNL The crystalline solid BaTiS3 (barium titanium sulfide)...
How to cool more efficiently
Scientists break new ground in future refrigerationCredit: Wikimedia commons, Licence: CC0 1.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MSC_Branka_(ship,_2016)#/media/File:MSC_Branka_in_Bremerhaven_1.jpg In the journal Applied Physics Reviews (DOI: 10.1063/5.0020755), an international research team...
Photonics meets surface science in a cheap and accurate sensor for biological liquids
Credit: Timur Ermatov et al/Light: Science & Applications Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Russia and Israel have come up with a new, simple and...
Grant to fund study of acoustics in turfgrass pest control
Credit: Allison Usavage, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For homeowners, sod producers and turf industry professionals, keeping pests from feeding on valuable turfgrass has been...
Covert communications go quantum
University of Arizona researcher builds on WWII methods to reach the pinnacle of secret communications.Credit: University of Arizona Boulat Bash, an assistant professor of electrical...
Research leads to better modeling of hypersonic flow
Credit: Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering Hypersonic flight is conventionally referred to as the ability to fly at speeds significantly faster than the...
Common pipe alloy can form cancer-causing chemical in drinking water
Water disinfectant reacts with chromium in iron pipes to form hexavalent chromiumCredit: Water Chemistry and Technology Lab/UCR Rusted iron pipes can react with residual disinfectants...
Leaving so soon? Unusual planetary nebula fades mere decades after it arrived
Credit: NASA/ESA/Bruce Balick/MartÃn Guerrero/Gerardo Ramos-Larios Stars are rather patient. They can live for billions of years, and they typically make slow transitions -- sometimes over...
3D protein modeling suggests why COVID-19 infects some animals, but not others
New insights into protein structures could help inform drug development and predict future outbreaksCredit: Rodrigues et al. 2020 (CC-BY 2.0) Some animals are more susceptible...
Dark excitons hit the spotlight
Researchers pioneer a revolutionary new method to directly observe previously hidden particles, called dark excitons.Credit: OIST Heralding the end of a decade-long quest, in a...
C-Path, Ltd. announces new contract with innovative medicines initiative
Credit: Courtesy of C-Path, Ltd. DUBLIN, Ireland, December 3, 2020 -- Critical Path Institute, Ltd. (C-Path, Ltd.) announced today a new contract with the Innovative...
Can we make bones heal faster?
UIC researchers capture new real-time images of bone, tooth formationCredit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine A new paper in Science Advances describes for the first time how minerals...
Researchers confront optics and data-transfer challenges with 3D-printed lens
Credit: Graphic by Michael Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have developed new 3D-printed microlenses with adjustable refractive indices - a property that gives them highly...
