Fifty years later, DDT lingers in lake ecosystems
Credit: Joshua Kurek To control pest outbreaks, airplanes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) onto forests in New ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
A homing beacon for chemotherapy drugs
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00195 Killing tumor cells while sparing their normal counterparts is a central ...
Penn engineers design nanostructured diamond metalens for compact quantum technologies
Credit: Ann Sizemore Blevins At the chemical level, diamonds are no more than carbon atoms aligned in a precise, three-dimensional ...
Tracking major sources of energy loss in compact fusion facilities
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications A key obstacle to controlling on Earth the fusion that powers the sun and ...
‘Sandwich’ structure key to thin LSMO films retaining magnetic properties
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that the oxide ceramic material lanthanum strontium manganite (LSMO) retains its magnetic ...
Holistic view of planning energy self-sufficient communities
If sustainable energy communities are going to grow, power fluctuations need to be managed, perhaps in a centralized mannerCredit: National ...
Hybrid device may help doctors treat strokes more quickly
Cheap and compact instrument based on two near-infrared light techniques diagnoses poor blood flow quickly and noninvasivelyCredit: Hua Feng WASHINGTON, ...
New energy-efficient algorithm keeps UAV swarms helping longer
In a twist on survival of the fittest, new research in UAV swarms applies genetic algorithms to maximize not individual ...
Boehringer Ingelheim and University of Dundee extend PROTAC Drug Discovery Program
Boehringer Ingelheim and Dundee extend ongoing anti-cancer alliance Boehringer Ingelheim and University of Dundee achieve milestone in collaboration aimed at ...
New look at old data leads to cleaner engines
Work unlocks new avenue for research at Sandia's Combustion Research FacilityCredit: Dino Vournas LIVERMORE, Calif. -- New insights about how ...
An innovative electron microscope overturning common knowledge of 88 years history
Direct atom-resolved imaging of magnetic materialsCredit: JST Under the JST-SENTAN program (Development of System and Technology for Advanced Measurement and ...
Plot twist: Straightening single-molecule conductors improves their performance
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - A team at Osaka University has created single-molecule nanowires, complete with an insulation layer, ...
iPhone plus nanoscale porous silicon equals cheap, simple home diagnostics
Credit: Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University The simplest home medical tests might look like a deck of various silicon chips coated in ...
Learning from nature’s bounty: New libraries for drug discovery
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Basilius Sauter | CC BY-SA 3.0 Natural products, or their close derivatives, make some of ...
LED-ing the way: A clean and convenient method to oxidize plastic surfaces for industry
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Polypropylene (PP) is everywhere, being one of the most widely used plastics in human ...
Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld
Credit: Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way ...
Light-powered nano-organisms consume CO2, create eco-friendly plastics and fuels
Credit: Casey A. Cass University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and ...
Stanford researchers synthesize healing compounds in scorpion venom
Credit: Edson N. Carcamo-Noriega A scorpion native to Eastern Mexico may have more than just toxin in its sting. Researchers ...
A bubbly new way to detect the magnetic fields of nanometer-scale particles
Credit: S. Kelley/NIST As if they were bubbles expanding in a just-opened bottle of champagne, tiny circular regions of magnetism ...
Trailblazing findings on the properties of daguerreotypes discovered by The Met and UNM
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and The University of New Mexico (UNM) ...
