AI plots sustainable materials
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Xavier Pita Machine learning could teach us how to make the manufacturing of materials cleaner and more sustainable by taking a...
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Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?
Researchers make functional membraneless "protocells" out of short polymersCredit: Fatma Pir Cakmak, Penn State Protocell compartments used as models for an important step in the...
Perfect imperfection: Electrode defects boost resistive memory efficiency
Imperfect electrode proves more efficientCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used computer memory technology. Researchers from...
Laser technology: New trick for infrared laser pulses
Infrared light can be used to detect molecules -- but it is hard to create strong, short laser pulses; a new solution was found at...
Replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2 in 3D
Credit: Julian Hennies/EMBL As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, scientists are not only trying to find vaccines and drugs to combat it, but also to...
Controlling fully integrated nanodiamonds
Physicists integrate diamond-based quantum systems into nanophotonic circuitsCredit: P. Schrinner/AG Schuck Using modern nanotechnology, it is possible nowadays to produce structures which have a feature...
COVID19 A research of Politecnico di Milano discovering the secrets of viral sequences
The search engine ViruSurf discloses the changes of the genome of the virus responsible for the pandemicsCredit: Politecnico di Milano Since the beginning of 2020,...
Non-invasive electrolyte levels’ measuring method can prevent sudden cardiac death
Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania came up with the idea on how to measure fluctuating blood potassium levels non-invasively, through electrocardiogram.Credit: KTU...
Quantum X-ray microscope underway at Brookhaven Lab
Researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source II will use the quantum properties of x-rays to "ghost image" biomoleculesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at...
Remote control of heat nanosources motion and thermal-induced fluid flows by using light forces
Credit: by José A. Rodrigo, Mercedes Angulo and Tatiana Alieva Today, optofluidics is one of the most representative application of photonics for biological/chemical analysis. The...
Breakthrough in studying the enzyme that ultimately produces fish odour syndrome
Credit: Credit: University of Warwick The condition trimethylaminuria, is more commonly known as fish odour syndrome, it currently has no cure. The syndrome occurs when...
Targeting calcium overload could improve stroke outcomes, research suggests
Credit: Courtesy Tvrdik lab Excessive calcium contributes to harmful inflammation in ischemic stroke, and targeting it may provide doctors with a new way to improve...
Understanding frustration could lead to better drugs
Rice scientists' atomic resolution protein models reveal new details about protein bindingCredit: Illustration by Mingchen Chen/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 23, 2020) - Knowing precisely...
Oil & gas industry commits to new framework to monitor, report and reduce methane emissions
Governments, UN, civil society, companies collaborate on robust new tracking and disclosure systemCredit: CCAC Oil & Gas Methane Partnership Nairobi/Brussels/New York, 23 November - In...
A chemist from RUDN University synthesized analogs of natural toxins
Credit: RUDN University A chemist from RUDN University suggested a simple and accurate method for the synthesis of analogs of two natural toxins, antofine and...