Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Image courtesy of Thomas Gaj, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from ...

Chemists learn how to detect phenols in smoked food samples using vitamin B4

This method can be used in analytical laboratories at factoriesCredit: SPbU Today, phenols are used to produce medicines, paints, and ...

Motley crew: Rust and light a possible answer to the conundrum of hydrogen fuel production

Scientists identify a new and efficient way of producing hydrogen from organic waste solution using a catalyst derived from -- ...

Scientists discover new clue behind age-related diseases and food spoilage

Exotic molecule linked to ozone also at work in chronic diseases and cancers, and even the decomposition of foodCredit: Marilyn ...

Discovery of entirely new class of RNA caps in bacteria

Credit: Hudeček, O., Benoni, R., Reyes-Gutierrez, P.E. et al. The group of Dr. Hana Cahová of the Institute of Organic ...

Small precipitates make big difference in mitigating strength-ductility tradeoff

Credit: PENG Shenyou Researchers from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, teaming up with scientists from ...

KIER developed separator that reduced gas crossover for water electrolyzer

Successfully developed a separation membrane that drastically lowered gas crossover while exhibiting high performance comparable to the commercial separatorCredit: Korea ...

Scientists ‘film’ a quantum measurement

Credit: F. Pokorny et al., Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our ...

How big is the neutron?

Theoretical physicsCredit: RUB, Marquard The size of neutrons cannot be measured directly: it can only be determined from experiments involving ...

Perovskite solar cells made of peppermint oil and walnut aroma food additives, preventing lead leakage

Credit: Taiho Park (POSTECH) Solar energy that reaches the Earth is about 125 million gigawatt (Gw). When this solar energy ...

Isotope movement holds key to the power of fusion reactions

Credit: Katsumi Ida, the National Institute for Fusion Science and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies Fusion may be the ...

MIT Technology Review selects AI molecular design as a breakthrough and highlights Insilico

Credit: Insilico 26th of February, 2020, 7:00 AM ET - Insilico Medicine today announced that MIT Technology Review selected AI-discovered ...

MOF co-catalyst allows selectivity of branched aldehydes of up to 90%

Approach represents a powerful tool for designing selective catalytic heterogeneous processesCredit: @PSI Efforts to develop heterogeneous catalysts that appeal to ...

Stretchable, wearable coils may make MRI, other medical tests easier on patients

Credit: Joseph Rispoli/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Anyone who has had a mammogram or an MRI knows how uncomfortable ...

Stanford research maps a faster, easier way to build diamond

With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure ...

A nacre-inspired separator coating for impact-tolerant lithium batteries

Credit: SONG Yonghui Lithium batteries are easy to explode? Scientists at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) may ...

Regioselective magnetization enabled chiral semiconducting heteronanorods

Credit: ZHUANG et al. The USTC team led by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Zhiyong Tang (National Center ...

USTC realizes the first quantum-entangling-measurements-enhanced quantum orienteering

Credit: TANG Junfeng et al. The CAS key lab of quantum information makes a significant progress in quantum orienteering. Under ...

Observation of non-trivial superconductivity on surface of type II Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4

Credit: ©Science China Press Topological superconductor, with bulk superconducting gap and Majorana fermion states on the surface or edge, is ...

Sustainable light sources: LEDs from bacterial production