Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Nine award winners from abroad will each receive up to €5 million and soon conduct research in Bonn, Cologne, Darmstadt, ...

The smell of dark chocolate, demystified

Chocolate is one of the most-consumed treats around the world, and the smell alone is usually enough to evoke strong ...

New fuel-related technologies to advance through private, public partnership

Swift Fuels, Purdue, PRF enter research agreement to commercialize fuel-related technologiesCredit: Swift Fuels WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Swift Fuels, Purdue ...

Clean fuel cells could be cheap enough to replace gas engines in vehicles

Credit: UWaterloo Advancements in zero-emission fuel cells could make the technology cheap enough to replace traditional gasoline engines in vehicles, ...

First flights

Experimental cosmologist Philip Lubin's group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft' UC Santa Barbara students sent up, via balloon, ...

Particle telescope to probe makeup of cosmic rays and could improve cancer treatment

Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University ...

InnoMat.Life: Increased safety for novel materials

Nanomaterials and novel materials are being examined with regard to their human health and environmental risks For the first time, ...

Mystery of texture of Guinness beer: inclination angle of a pint glass is key to solution

Bubble cascade in beer is found to be analogous to roll waves observed in water sliding downhill on a rainy ...

New material also reveals new quasiparticles

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material that exhibits electronic properties that have ...

The evolution of skyrmions in multilayers and their topological Hall signature

Magnetic measurement images showing how the number of skyrmions in a nanomaterial varies with magnetic field strength. Magnetic skyrmions are ...

Bacteria causing infections can be detected more rapidly

Professor Young-Tae Chang of POSTECH and his research team developed a fluorescent molecule for screening Gram-positive bacteriaCredit: POSTECH Two years ...

Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

Using an infrared photodiode pointed to the sky, a new device harvests energy from the temperature difference between Earth and ...

Study reveals final fate of levitating Leidenfrost droplets

Credit: Lyu/Mathai PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Splash some water on a hot skillet, and you'll often see the droplets sizzle and ...

Sensor can detect spoiled milk before opening

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. -Expiration dates on milk could eventually become a thing of the past with new sensor technology ...

New all-fiber device simplifies free-space based quantum key distribution

Robust encoder switches polarization 1 billion times a second; could facilitate global quantum encryption network WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed ...

New class of catalysts for energy conversion

Material researchCredit: RUB, Marquard Numerous chemical reactions relevant for the energy revolution are highly complex and result in considerable energy ...

The power of randomization: Magnetic skyrmions for novel computer technology