Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering According to ancient lore, Genghis Khan instructed his horsemen to wear silk vests ...

Scientists take the first step towards extending the Standard Model in physics

Researchers calculated previously unexplored effects in atomsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...

Mapping the path of climate change

A probabilistic framework is used to understand how climate change progresses under the influence of the greenhouse effect and other ...

Signals from inside the Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos

Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating ...

Acousto-optic modulation of photonic bound state in the continuum

Credit: by Zejie Yu and Xiankai Sun Harnessing bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) allows ...

Brewing a better espresso, with a shot of math

Credit: Five Senses Coffee (Australia) Mathematicians, physicists, and materials experts might not spring to mind as the first people to ...

Residues in fingerprints hold clues to their age

Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04765 Police have long relied on the unique whorls, loops or arches encoded ...

Deep-sea osmolyte makes biomolecular machines heat-tolerant

Credit: Munmun, T. et. al., Chemical Communications, Dec. 26, 2019 Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over ...

Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record time

The reference particle captured light for a time exceeding 200 periods of one wave oscillation, 20-40 times longer than usual; ...

Self-moisturising smart contact lenses

Credit: Tohoku University Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new type of smart contact lenses that can prevent dry ...

Mixing the unmixable — a novel approach for efficiently fusing different polymers

Credit: Angewandte Chemie Cross-linked polymers are structures where large molecular chains are linked together, allowing exceptional mechanical properties and chemical ...

Kirigami designs hold thousands of times their own weight

Credit: Erica Brockmeier The Japanese art of origami (from ori, folding, and kami, paper) transforms flat sheets of paper into ...

Less may be more in next-gen batteries

Rice lab tests cells with silicon anodes, aluminum coatings that protect cathodesCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 21, 2020) ...

Ultrafast camera takes 1 trillion frames per second of transparent objects and phenomena

Lihong Wang has adapted his picosecond imaging technology to take pictures and video of transparent objects like cells and phenomena ...

Advanced polymers help streamline water purification, environmental remediation

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- It takes a lot of energy to collect, clean and dispose of ...

Mosquitoes are drawn to flowers as much as people — and now scientists know why

Credit: Kiley Riffell Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn't get very far. They rely on this sense to ...

$2M NSF grant fuels Lehigh U research partnership with Michelin North America, Cornell

Lehigh bioengineering chair Anand Jagota lands university's first LEAP HI GOALI award in support of work on friction that could ...

Determining the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly and accurately

Credit: Songhwan Hwang, FMP Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must ...

Low power metal detector senses magnetic fingerprints

Device designed for security systems can be built smaller, without the need for an active, energy-extensive doorwayCredit: Huan Liu WASHINGTON, ...

The properties of thin titanium oxide films have been studied