Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Scientists working at Berkeley Lab's BELLA Center nearly double their previous record set in 2014Credit: Carlo Benedetti/Berkeley Lab Combining a ...

An easier way to engineer plants

MIT-led team uses nanoparticles to deliver genes into plant chloroplastsCredit: The researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a ...

Salisbury Award launched by National Foundation for Cancer Research

New program widens NFCR's translational research scope, honors family's contributions ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) ...

A new spin in nano-electronics

HZDR researchers succeed in controlling extremely short-wavelength spin wavesCredit: HZDR / Juniks In recent years, electronic data processing has been ...

Physicists from ITMO University experimentally investigated new class of resonators

The physicists from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute and the Australian National University examined a new mechanism of realization of high-quality ...

A very human machine

New brain implants disguise as neurons, offering a potentially safer way to study and treat the brainCredit: Xiao Yang (Lieber ...

Topological defects could be key to future nano-electronics

Ferroic and multiferroic topological structures reviewed in Nature MaterialsCredit: FLEET The connection from fridge magnets to cutting edge materials science ...

Nanoparticle computing takes a giant step forward

Lipid nanotablet for modular and scalable molecular computing with nanoparticlesCredit: Image credit by Jinyoung Seo & Jwa-Min Nam, Seoul National ...

Scientists decode dynamics of the largest protein-degrading machine in atomic detail

Credit: Youdong Mao Protein dynamics are essential for their functions. Protein nanomachines made of multiple protein molecules are highly dynamics ...

Partners in catalysis: An efficient route to unsaturated ketones

Kanazawa University researchers showcase a green, economical way to accomplish a key organic synthesis reaction through synergy between two catalystsCredit: ...

New membrane water treatment system to reduce toxic waste by over 90 percent

Credit: NTU Singapore A new pilot plant to treat industrial wastewater is being built that could potentially reduce the amount ...

Researchers engineer a tougher fiber

Credit: Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University North Carolina State University researchers have developed a fiber that combines the elasticity ...

A quantum magnet with a topological twist

Materials with a kagome lattice pattern exhibit 'negative magnetism' and long-sought 'flat-band' electronsCredit: Hasan, et. al, Princeton University Taking their ...

Scientists sharpen their molecular scissors and expand the gene editing toolbox

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Feb. 22, 2019 - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists have figured out a better ...

Navy files for patent on room-temperature superconductor

Physicists refer to room temperature superconductivity as 'the holy grail'Credit: via U.S. Patent and Trademark Office A scientist working for ...

JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules

Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum ...

Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons

System that generates coherent single particles of light could help pave the way for quantum information processors or communications CAMBRIDGE, ...

NJIT’s Sagnik Basuray is named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors

Credit: NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Sagnik Basuray, an assistant professor of chemical engineering who develops novel sensors, ...

New paper provides design principles for disease-sensing nanomaterials

The detailed findings could lead to more precise, effective methods of treating and diagnosing a variety of diseases, including cancersCredit: ...

CLEAR at UTA continues collaboration with the Apache Corporation