Scientists gain detailed images of how a protein that calms brain activity works
The findings provide a clear path to uncovering new drugs to control addiction, pain and neurological disorders such as epilepsy ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
A step forward in solving the reactor-neutrino flux problem
Credit: Igor Ostrovskiy/University of Alabama Joint effort of the nuclear theory group at the University of Jyvaskyla and the international ...
Researcher named a Top Young Innovator by MIT Technology Review
Miguel Modestino is honored for research to make chemical production processes greenerCredit: NYU Tandon BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, June 17, ...
Food Technology: Insect Flours
Researchers Improve Baking Properties of Insect FloursCredit: Photo: Markus Breig, KIT According to estimates of the United Nations Food and ...
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Bortolon. Composite by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities ...
Quantum-inspired approach dramatically lowers light power needed for OCT
New detection system allows high-quality OCT imaging with power levels well below safety limitsCredit: Andrzej Roma?ski WASHINGTON -- Researchers have ...
NIST adds new ‘fingerprints’ to chemical identification database
The NIST Mass Spectral Library has expanded to include new human and plant metabolites, variants of fentanyl and other synthetic ...
How Toxoplasma parasites glide so swiftly (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society If you're a cat owner, you might have heard of Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that sometimes ...
Kavli Prize for Pioneers of Electron Microscopy
Maximilian Haider, Harald Rose, Knut Urban, and Ondrej Krivanek are awarded the 2020 Kavli Prize for their contributions to the ...
Self-powered ‘paper chips’ could help sound an early alarm for forest fires
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c04798 Recent devastating fires in the Amazon rain forest and ...
Detecting antibodies with glowing proteins, thread and a smartphone
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00564 To defend the body, the immune system makes proteins known as antibodies ...
Using tiny electrodes to measure electrical activity in bacteria
Organic microbial electrochemical transistor monitoring extracellular electron transferCredit: Thor Balkhed Scientists at Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, have developed ...
Photonics: From custom-built to ready-made
Credit: Lin Chang (UCSB) Information technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. However, the growing demands of data centers ...
NTU invents antimicrobial compound used in reusable face masks made by Ghim Li Group
Credit: Ghim Li Group Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a sustainable and green way to ...
Energy storage using oxygen to boost battery performance
Credit: Jeung Ku Kang, KAIST Researchers have presented a novel electrode material for advanced energy storage device that is directly ...
High performance sodium-ion capacitors based on Nb2O5 nanotubes@carbon cloth
Credit: ©Science China Press Hybrid sodium-ion capacitors (SICs) bridge the gap between supercapacitors (SCs) and batteries and have huge potential ...
Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration
Credit: Copyright ©2020 American Chemical Society With the global spread of coronavirus infections, personal protective equipments especially hygeine face masks ...
Cellular nanosponges could soak up SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02278 Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the ...
Thinking small: New ideas in the search for dark matter
Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...
$345K NSF grant to fund research to modify paper electronics to make them stretchable
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York A three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund research ...
