MIPT scientists come up with faster way to discover antibiotics
Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office Russian biochemists have identified a promising new class of antibiotics. Having studied over 125,000 molecules, ...
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Combining cheap and safe black and white materials creates colorful pigments
Credit: Yukikazu Takeoka In response to worldwide concern over the adverse effects of chemical substances on human health and the ...
New chip poised to enable hand-held microwave imaging
Researchers shrink bulky imaging systems down to millimeter sized chip that could be used to see through walls or detect ...
New research brings scientists one step closer to a fully functioning quantum computer
Credit: University of Rochester photo / J. Adam Fenster Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology, medicine, and science ...
Laser-based system detects fires even in dusty, harsh environments
Speckle pattern analysis offers robust and inexpensive method for fire detection that is ideal for industrial facilities and large sitesCredit: ...
First evidence for early baby bottles used to feed animal milk to prehistoric babies
Credit: Helena Seidl da Fonseca A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found the first evidence ...
Research suggests there’s a better way to teach physics to university students
Credit: Matt Rennells LAWRENCE -- Courses in introductory physics are required for nearly all university STEM degree programs not only ...
Machine learning finds new metamaterial designs for energy harvesting
Design would enable thermophotovoltaic devices that convert waste heat to electricityCredit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Electrical engineers ...
Mosquito eye inspires artificial compound lens (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Anyone who's tried to swat a pesky mosquito knows how quickly the insects can evade a ...
Smoothing wrinkles in mice — without needles
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b0438 In the quest for a more youthful appearance, many people slather ointments ...
New synthetic polymer degradable under very mild acidic conditions
Credit: Ehime University A research team in Ehime University prepared a new type of synthetic polymer, which can be degraded ...
Log-periodic quantum oscillations and discrete scale invariance in Dirac materials
Credit: ©Science China Press One fundamental problem of quantum electrodynamics is the fate of the superheavy atomic nucleus, which is ...
Researchers home in on extremely rare nuclear process
The complete data from the EXO-200 experiment provide new information on neutrinoless double beta decay and set the stage for ...
Light work for superconductors
Laser light compels iron compound to conduct power without resistanceCredit: © 2019 Suzuki et al. For the first time researchers ...
Evidence of anomalously large superconducting gap on topological surface state of β-Bi2Pd film
Credit: ©Science China Press Majorana bound states have attracted scientists' interests and topological superconductors (TSCs) are predicted to host exotic ...
Decoding a new sign in chromatin maze:
HKU chemical biologists identify a new histone mark that regulates chromatin structure during gene expression and DNA repairCredit: @The University ...
Engineered protein crystals make cells magnetic
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02266 If scientists could give living cells magnetic properties, they could perhaps manipulate ...
Nanocatalyst makes heavy work of formic acid
Researchers from Osaka University report an inexpensive and scalable route to hydrogen isotope compoundsCredit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Hydrogen ...
Using light to speed up computation
PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient ...
Brown, Dartmouth researchers to explore materials, matter states for quantum technologies
Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. AND HANOVER, N.H. -- Quantum technologies have the potential to spur revolutions in computing, sensing, ...
