3D microchannels promote self-assembly of ordered emulsions at low droplet concentrations
Credit: SUTD Self-assembly is the process by which simple building blocks interact and organize themselves into ordered structures. Nature abounds ...
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New research unlocks properties for quantum information storage and computing
Newly published findings lay the foundation for smaller, more efficient quantum devices TROY, N.Y. - Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...
World-renowned Lehigh Microscopy School now in its 49th year
Weeklong series of electron microscope courses has top-tier reputation among industry, national labs, and academia The Lehigh Microscopy School has ...
Video gamers design brand new proteins
By playing Foldit, citizen scientists can now help protein researchers create novel vaccines, cancer therapies and moreCredit: UW Medicine A ...
New mechanism allows lower energy requirement for OLED displays
Scientists from RIKEN and the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with international partners have found a way to ...
Physics could answer questions about breast cancer spreading to bones
IUPUI researchers hope to learn how cancer cells generate enough force to move from a tumor site through the body ...
Painless skin patch collects fluid for diagnostic testing
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b00258 Although blood contains a wealth of potential biomarkers of disease, it can ...
Researchers discover what makes deep-sea dragonfish teeth transparent
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A team of researchers led by the University of California San ...
US struggles to keep up as hemp industry grows
U.S. hemp production is soaring, but government oversight hasn't kept up, according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News ...
Verifying ‘organic’ foods
Organic foods are increasingly popular -- and pricey. Organic fruits and vegetables are grown without synthetic pesticides, and because of ...
Metal foam stops .50 caliber rounds as well as steel — at less than half the weight
Researchers have demonstrated that vehicle armor using composite metal foam (CMF) can stop ball and armor-piercing .50 caliber rounds as ...
As hot as the sun’s interior
Physicists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) create plasma for the first time using nanowires and long-wavelength ultrashort pulse laserCredit: ...
No assumptions needed to simulate petroleum reservoirs
Hydrocarbons trapped within porous media are easier to model with computer simulations than researchers previously assumed -- a discovery that ...
New polymer tackles PFAS pollution
The problem of cleaning up toxic polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) pollution has been solved by a new low-cost, safe and ...
Foam-free methane storage promoter proposed
Hydrate formation proves to be the key to the problemCredit: Kazan Federal University Associated petroleum gas is wasted in the ...
DNA nanorobots target HER2-positive breast cancer cells
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01320 According to the Mayo Clinic, about 20% of breast cancers make abnormally ...
Estimating microplastic consumption
Credit: Monique Raap, University of Victoria Since the mass production of plastics began in the 1940s, the versatile polymers have ...
Deep learning techniques teach neural model to ‘play’ retrosynthesis
Columbia chemical engineers train a neural network model to plan synthetic routes to any target molecule, optimizing user-specified objectives such ...
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life
University of Lincoln research looks at the possibility of moons outside our solar system causing gaps in the rings of ...
UV light may illuminate improvements for next generation electronic devices
Credit: Golap Kalita, Ph.D., Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan By adding one more layer of atoms to already infinitesimal semiconductors, ...
