Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Researchers in Singapore turn a single atom into a quantum engine and a quantum fridgeCredit: Aki Honda / Centre for ...

Could a polio vaccine stop the coronavirus pandemic? (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 4, 2020 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has scientists considering a few less-conventional options ...

How to put neurons into cages

Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), ...

Outer tube-selectively boron-doped double-walled carbon nanotubes for thermoelectric applications

Breakthrough in molecular machines

Credit: Mikkel Larris, University of Southern Denmark Molecules are some of life's most basic building blocks. When they work together ...

Print your own laboratory-grade microscope for US$18

An open-source design from the University of Bath gives schools, homes and labs the chance to 3D print their own ...

Pacific oysters may not contain as many microplastics as previously thought

Credit: Julieta Martinelli/University of Washington Plastic pollution is an increasingly present threat to marine life and one which can potentially ...

KIST ensures stability of desalination process with magnesium

Process is developed to inhibit the fouling of desalination membranes with the addition of magnesium. Desalination stability is expected to ...

Sustainable structural material for plastic substitute

Credit: Shu-Hong Yu Plastic is a kind of widely used artificial material. The invention of plastic gives us a lightweight, ...

First direct look at how light excites electrons to kick off a chemical reaction

Light-driven reactions are at the heart of human vision, photosynthesis and solar power generation; seeing the very first step opens ...

Free use of Kudos Pro to help researchers keep communicating during pandemic disruption

Credit: Kudos Innovations Ltd For immediate release - Oxford, UK - May 1st, 2020 - Kudos, the award-winning service for ...

Green method could enable hospitals to produce hydrogen peroxide in house

Credit: Zheng Chen Lab A team of researchers has developed a portable, more environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen peroxide. ...

Rubies on sapphire: Recipe for making crystals in flux

Credit: Katsuya Teshima Ph.D., Research Initiative for Supra-Materials, Shinshu University Crystals can be made artificially but a lot of energy ...

Pressing ‘pause’ on nature’s crystal symmetry

Discovery by Drexel researchers could improve targeted medicine deliveryCredit: Drexel University The new development, recently reported in the scientific journal ...

Looking for dark matter with the universe’s coldest material

Credit: ICFO/ P. Gomez & M. Mitchell Scientists have been able to observe the universe and determine that about 80% ...

Red light for stress

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, part ...

Hidden symmetry found in chemical kinetic equations

Rice University discovery has implications for drug design, genetics, moreCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 30, 2020) -- Rice ...

In search of the lighting material of the future