Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

For decades, physicists have wrestled with understanding the thermodynamic cost of manipulating information, what we would now call computing. How ...

JILA’s 5-minute sample processing enhances DNA imaging and analysis

Credit: Heenan/JILA JILA scientists have developed a fast, simple sample preparation method that enhances imaging of DNA to better analyze ...

Elements can be solid and liquid at the same time, study reveals

Scientists have discovered a new state of physical matter in which atoms can exist as both solid and liquid simultaneously. ...

New NASA-funded program to train K-12 students in STEM fields

Outreach components include public lectures, parent nights, and telescope viewing opportunitiesCredit: Mobasher lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - NASA has ...

Amorphous materials will be used in medical and industrial applications

Relevant research by Kazan University appeared in Acta Materialia and will be supported by the Russian Science Foundation.Credit: Kazan Federal ...

Degradable plastics

Professor Stefan Mecking, Chair of Chemical Materials Science at the University of Konstanz, receives an Advanced Grant from the European ...

Using artificial intelligence to understand collective behavior

A machine learning model can reproduce the swarming behaviour of locusts -- collaborative research project between the Universities of Konstanz ...

New quick-fix wrap by NTU and JTC can repair and reinforce existing structures

Credit: NTU Singapore By protecting concrete pillars with a ready-to-stick wrap developed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and ...

9 projects supported by Russian Science Foundation

Each will receive 4 to 6 million rubles of funding per year Nine projects of Ural Federal University (UrFU) researchers ...

Observing a molecule stretch and bend in real-time

Credit: ICFO/K. Amini and U. Jena Being able to watch how molecules bend, stretch, break, or transform, during chemical reactions ...

New biologically derived metal-organic framework mimics DNA

Credit: Peter G. Boyd/EPFL The field of materials science has become abuzz with "metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs), versatile compounds made up ...

Researchers 3D print metamaterials with novel optical properties

Engineers create novel optical devices, including a moth eye-inspired omnidirectional microwave antennaCredit: Hojat Rezaei Nejad, Tufts University, Nano Lab MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, ...

CIFAR announces new research programs and AI Chairs

New portfolio takes risks, convenes extraordinary minds to address science and humanity's most important questions Top scientists and scholars from ...

Spying on cells eating habits could aid cancer diagnosis

Credit: The University of Edinburgh Scientists have developed a new imaging technology to visualise what cells eat, which could aid ...

Squeezed nanocrystals: A new model predicts their shape when blanketed under graphene

Credit: US Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern ...

Rocket fuel that’s cleaner, safer and still full of energy

Credit: McGill University Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create rocket fuel ...

Successful test of the MONSTER spectrometer provided new nuclear structure information

Credit: University of Jyväskyla The research group was succesful in testing modular neutron spectrometer (MONSTER) at JYFL-ACCLAB. The beta decay ...

How good are protein disorder prediction programs actually?

Credit: Dr. Jakob Toudahl and Assoc. Prof. Frans Mulder at Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University. Disorder ...

Cathinone color test is now on the market

A color test developed at University of Technology Sydney that can accurately detect the presence of all cathinones has been ...

DFG to fund 6 new Research Units