‘Trojan horse’ anticancer drug disguises itself as fat
Promising system delivers chemo drug straight into tumors with fewer side effectsCredit: Nathan Gianneschi/Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- A stealthy ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Could the heat of the Earth’s crust become the ultimate energy source?
Credit: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Sachiko Matsushita In a world where energy consumption is on the rise, our only ...
IceCube: Antarctic neutrino detector to get $37 million upgrade
MADISON, Wis. -- IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles ...
A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune
Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a tiny toolkit for scientists to study exotic quantum physicsCredit: Guorui Chen et al./Berkeley ...
Improving the odds of synthetic chemistry success
Credit: Jolene Reid and Matthew Sigman. Chemistry is more than just mixing compound A with compound B to make compound ...
A new spin on DNA
DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machinesCredit: Pallav Kosuri/Zhuang Lab/Harvard University Every year, robots get more ...
200 times faster than ever before: the speediest quantum operation yet
Credit: UNSW Sydney A group of scientists led by 2018 Australian of the Year Professor Michelle Simmons have achieved the ...
First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure
Scientists have visualised the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely-tuned high ...
Toward a better battery
Materials scientists uncover source of degradation in sodium batteries Batteries power our lives: we rely on them to keep our ...
The physiology of survival
For bacteria, the neighbors co-determine which cell dies firstCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria do not simply perish in hunger ...
Harvesting energy from the human knee
A group of researchers has developed a way to power small devices by walking.Credit: Gao et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., July ...
Researchers use nano-particles to increase power, improve eye safety of fiber lasers
Credit: Jonathan Steffen/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have devised a new process ...
Japanese scientists embrace creepy-crawlies
Firms in Japan are changing people's perceptions about common spiders, worms and insect larvae. These seemingly unwanted creatures have unique ...
‘Semi-synthetic’ bacteria churn out unnatural proteins
Credit: Adapted from Journal of the American Chemical Society 2019, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b02075 Synthetic biologists seek to create new life with ...
A new material for the battery of the future, made in UCLouvain
Credit: University of Louvain (UCLouvain) Renewable sources of energy such as wind or photovoltaic are intermittent. The production peaks do ...
Fiber-optic vibration sensors could prevent train accidents
New accelerometers would enable all-optical sensing networks that continuously monitor for train or track problems WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed ...
Crystalline ‘artificial muscle’ makes paper doll do sit-ups
Credit: American Chemical Society Scary movies about dolls that can move, like Anabelle and Chucky, are popular at theaters this ...
Monitoring air quality after Fourth of July fireworks
The U.S. recently celebrated the Fourth of July with dazzling fireworks displays in many cities. After the "oohs" and "ahhs" ...
Researchers put a new spin on molecular oxygen
A multinational team led by researchers from Osaka University use experimental Kelvin probe force spectroscopy to alter the charge states ...
High magnetic field of 10T during activated carbon production improves micropore capacity by 35%
Credit: Copyright 2019, Springer Nature, Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Carbon materials such as nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and graphite ...
