New membrane technology to boost water purification and energy storage
Credit: Qilei Song, Imperial College London Imperial College London scientists have created a new type of membrane that could improve water purification and battery energy...
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SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser
Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of a billionth of a second...
Hyperfine and Penn Medicine announce partnership to image hydrocephalus patients
World's first portable, low-cost MRI system is a new tool for clinical diagnosis and patient monitoringCredit: Hyperfine GUILFORD, Conn.--(December 2, 2019)--Hyperfine Research Inc. has joined...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background artist rendering by NASA and...
Controlling the optical properties of solids with acoustic waves
Credit: Adriel Dominguez (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg) One of the main challenges in materials science research is to achieve high tunability of the optical properties...
Malaria deaths could be reduced thanks to Warwick engineers
Credit: University of Warwick Since 2015 Malaria has resurged and typical bednets treated with insecticide are losing their efficiency due to insecticide resistance in some...
A question of pressure
PTB scientists have developed a new primary method for the measurement of pressure based on electrical measurements carried out on helium gasCredit: PTB Scientists from...
Making higher-energy light to fight cancer
Researchers use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, bringing scientists closer to developing photodynamic treatments for cancerCredit: Lorenzo Mangolini & Ming...
Bushmeat may breed deadly bacteria
Credit: Robab Katani, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- People who eat wildebeests, wart hogs and other wild African animals may be at risk for...
Daylight damage-saving time
A research team led by Kanazawa University studies the process by which the performance of advanced solar cells degrades over time; this work may help...
The impact of molecular rotation on a peculiar isotope effect on water hydrogen bonds
Unveiling two deuteration effects on hydrogen-bond breaking process of water isotopomersCredit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems are significantly affected by nuclear...
Designing and repurposing cell receptors
Credit: Daniel Keri, EPFL Called the "second secret of life", allostery is one of the most fundamental processes of biology and has been a central...
Molecular vibrations lead to high performance laser
Breakthrough method has implications for enhanced performance of lasers for communications, diagnostics and defenseCredit: Troan Tran Lasers. They are used for everything from entertaining our...
New 5G-based system for sanitary emergency situations
Credit: IMDEA Networks Institute 5TONIC, the open research and innovation laboratory on 5G technologies, founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks, has presented, together with SAMUR-PC...
Mercury transit observed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — IOTW1948
Transit image with a twist (and a turn!)Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory About 13 times per century, fleeting Mercury can be seen passing...