Honeybees’ hairy abdomens show how to save energy, reduce wear on materials
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c05500 Watching honeybees buzz among flowers, it's easy to see ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes
New technology could speed cancer diagnosis, ensure surgeons remove 100% of a tumor and inspect drugs for dangerous chemicalsCredit: Joel ...
Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04559 Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban ...
Engineers apply physics-informed machine learning to solar cell production
Lehigh University researchers use Frontera supercomputer to simulate photovoltaic fabrication, train AI to optimize energy productionCredit: Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
VUMC Team Develops Potential Treatment for Life-threatening Microbial Inflammation
Credit: Photo courtesy Hawiger lab A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center can prevent, in an ...
German researchers involved in seawater desalination project in the Persian Gulf
Researchers of Mainz University cooperate with partners in the Middle East to provide drinking water to settlements on the Persian ...
UTA pioneers quantum physics training for high school teachers
National Science Foundation funds UTA-led teacher training program in quantum physicsCredit: Randy Gentry/UTA An assistant professor at The University of ...
Using a mineral ‘sponge’ to catch uranium
Remediation technology reduces uranium levels ten-thousandfold at legacy site in ColoradoCredit: Graphic by Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A ...
RUDN University chemist created coordination polymers with up to 99.99% antibacterial efficiency
Credit: RUDN University RUDN University chemist with his colleagues from Portugal has developed two types of coating based on new ...
Researchers reveal relationship between magnetic field and supercapacitors
Credit: LICP Since energy storage devices are often used in a magnetic field environment, scientists have often explored how an ...
A new approach will help save X-ray studies from failing results
A new approach will help save X-ray studies from failing results due to the peculiarities of single-crystal X-ray opticsCredit: IKBFU ...
Australian researchers create quantum microscope that can see the impossible
Credit: The University of Queensland In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that ...
Personalized soundscape could help people with dementia with time, place recognition
Acoustical environments can prevent, reduce behavioral and psychological symptomsCredit: Arezoo Talebzadeh, Ghent University MELVILLE, N.Y., June 9, 2021 -- Designing ...
New study presents tip-induced nano-engineering of strain, bandgap, and exciton funneling in 2D semiconductors
Credit: UNIST A research team, led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park in the Department of Physics at UNIST has succeeded in ...
Novel compound reveals fundamental properties of smallest carbon nanotubes
Credit: Manabu Abe, Hiroshima University Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of ...
Physicists achieve significant improvement in spotting neutrinos in a cosmic haystack
Ground-breaking image reconstruction and analysis algorithms developed for surface-based MicroBooNE detector filter out cosmic ray tracks to pinpoint elusive neutrino ...
Developing the novel joint technique for copper alloy
This highly contributes to producing the efficient heat removal component for fusion reactorCredit: National Institute for Fusion Science The oxide ...
Control over water friction with 2D materials points to ‘smart membranes’
Dramatic decrease in friction when water is passed through nanoscale capillaries made of grapheneCredit: The University of Manchester The speed ...
UMass Amherst researchers create intelligent electronic microsystems from green material
Credit: UMass Amherst A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently ...
From burglar alarms to black hole detectors
Super sensors as possible outputs of a quantum gravity experimentCredit: University of Groningen Last year, Anupam Mazumdar, a physicist from ...
