Why some coronavirus strains are more infectious than others
The coronaviruses that cause SARS and COVID-19 have spike proteins that move into 'active' and 'inactive' positions, and new research ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering
Shape-changing scaffold for tissue engineeringCredit: Yu Bin Lee New hydrogel-based materials that can change shape in response to psychological stimuli, ...
‘Miracle poison’ for novel therapeutics
Researchers prove they can engineer botulinum toxin proteins to find new targets with high selectivity, a critical advance toward potential ...
Strengthened by chaos, new super-hard materials will stir steel together
Department of Defense project will create AI-materials tools to design recipes for a new class of materials tailored to super-hard, ...
An intelligent soft material that curls under pressure or expands when stretched (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Plants and animals can rapidly respond to changes in their environment, such as a Venus flytrap ...
Accelerator physics: Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are.Credit: Tsinghua ...
Nature’s funhouse mirror: understanding asymmetry in the proton
Credit: (Image by Brookhaven National Laboratory.) Asymmetry in the proton confounds physicists, but a new discovery may bring back old ...
David Kaplan elected to National Academy of Engineering
Tufts biomedical engineer and researcher is recognized for his contributions to silk-based materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicineCredit: Alonso ...
Recent progress in heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration
Credit: by Di Liang and John E. Bowers Integrated photonics was rejuvenated as Si starting challenging the dominant position of ...
Twin atoms: A source for entangled particles
Quantum experiments that could previously only be performed with photons are now also possible with atoms: Beams of entangled atoms ...
Quantum shuttle to quantum processor made in Germany launched
Credit: Copyright: Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) The quantum computer race is in full swing. Germany has long been one ...
Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to the two scientists who developed new nanomaterials with applications in solar ...
Quantum systems learn joint computing
MPQ researchers realize the first quantum-logic computer operation between two separate quantum modules in different laboratories.Credit: Stephan Welte, Severin Daiss ...
Green revolution in electronic displays expected to ease energy and health crises
Credit: by Yuyang Wang, Hui Nie, Jinsong Han, Yaxun An, Yu-Mo Zhang and Sean Xiao-An Zhang The development of low-energy-consumption ...
Fabricating the future with a new environment friendly method of polymerization
Insights into a novel environment friendly method of polymerization involving non-metallic organocatalysts opens doors to efficient polymeric productsCredit: Photo courtesy: ...
Evidence that Earth’s first cells could have made specialized compartments
Credit: Image courtesy of Karolina Spustova. New research by the University of Oslo provides evidence that the "protocells" that formed ...
Treating rheumatoid arthritis with micromotors
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04438 Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder marked by joint pain, swelling ...
Measuring carbon nanotubes taken up by plants
Credit: Kamol Das Carbon nanotubes are tiny. They can be a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a ...
Machine learning aids in simulating dynamics of interacting atoms
Automated approach transformative for computational materials scienceCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., February 23, 2021--A revolutionary machine-learning (ML) ...
Transformed by light: Fast photochromism discovered in an inexpensive inorganic material
Copper-doped zinc sulfide changes color reversibly when illuminated and could be used in smart adaptive windows and sunglassesCredit: Ritsumeikan University ...