WVU researchers thirsty for reducing fresh water use by power plants
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Water is the essence of life. And electricity. Power plants across the country utilize more ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
The mantis shrimp’s perfect shield
How it's inspiring a new class of lightweight, impact-resistant materialsCredit: Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley How do you protect yourself from the ...
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way ...
Four Lehigh University engineers land prestigious 2019 NSF research fellowship grants
Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes research potential of women studying bioengineering, materials science, and mechanical engineeringCredit: Lehigh University It was ...
Researchers ‘stretch’ the ability of 2D materials to change technology
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Two-dimensional (2D) materials - as thin as a single layer of atoms ...
Antennas of flexible nanotube films an alternative for electronics
Rice University lab claims a viable competitor for copper in 5G wireless and other applicationsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Antennas made ...
Powerful lasers for fragile works of art
Professor Patrizio Antici demonstrates the power and high potential of a new method for analyzing artworks using a laser produced ...
Magnetism: An unexpected push for the hydrogen economy
For the first time, scientists have applied a magnetic field that directly enhanced the production of hydrogen via water splittingCredit: ...
Light energy and biomass can be converted to diesel fuel and hydrogen
Scientists recently developed a method to produce diesel fuel and hydrogen by exploiting light energy (solar energy or artificial light ...
BU researchers develop new metamaterial that can improve MRI quality and reduce scan time
Magnetic metamaterial can 'turn up the volume' of MRICredit: Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography Could a small ...
Multicolored light twists in new knotted ways
ICFO researchers report on the discovery of a new type of optical singularity with the topology of a knot.Credit: ICFO ...
Fiber-optic probe can see molecular bonds
Pointing the new nanoscopy tool like a Harry Potter wand reveals a high-resolution image of moleculesCredit: Liu Group/UCR In "Avengers: ...
Settling the debate: Solving the electronic surface states of samarium hexaboride
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - A team led by Osaka University used angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy to probe the unusual ...
Engineers use graph networks to accurately predict properties of molecules and crystals
Credit: Chi Chen/Materials Virtual Lab Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new deep learning models that ...
What if dark matter is lighter? Report calls for small experiments to broaden the hunt
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists are already pursuing new experiments to probe for low-mass dark matter particlesCredit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley ...
How do foams collapse?
Two distinct physical mechanisms identified for how simple foams collapseCredit: Rei Kurita Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
How acids behave in ultracold interstellar space
Solvated acids tend to release a proton; however, they display more complex behavior under space conditions Bochum-based researchers from the ...
NIST infrared frequency comb measures biological signatures
Credit: NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus ...
New core-shell catalyst for ethanol fuel cells
Greatly boosts efficiency of ethanol electro-oxidation, offering promise for liquid-fuel-cell-powered dronesCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department ...
Probing semiconductor crystals with a sphere of light
Credit: Kazunobu Kojima, Tohoku University Tohoku University researchers have developed a technique using a hollow sphere to measure the electronic ...
