Cholesterol’s effects on cellular membranes
Credit: Virginia Tech For more than a decade, scientists have accepted that cholesterol - a key component of cell membranes ...
Tag: Molecular Physics
How to have a blast like a black hole
Scientists at Osaka University use extremely intense laser pulses to create magnetized-plasma conditions comparable to those surrounding a black hole, ...
A spicy silver lining
Habanero peppers provide ecofriendly way to synthesize silver nanoparticlesCredit: SPIE Distinctive thermal and electrical characteristics make silver nanoparticles perfect for ...
Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature
Suppression of long-lived energetic states called triplet excitons shown to be key for preventing the "lasing death" that has been ...
Strong fields and ultrafast motions – how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water
Credit: MBI Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in their environment. ...
Hindawi Limited announces open access partnership with SAGE Publishing
Three of SAGE Publishing's open access journals will publish with Hindawi under a new collaborative publishing agreementCredit: © Hindawi Limited ...
Planetary ball-milling helps protect our planet from plastics pollution
Researchers from Osaka University have developed eco-friendly polymer materials with extended functional lifespans that are self-healing, tough and recyclable, by ...
New study takes aim at advanced types of non-addictive pain therapies
Credit: Wade Van Horn A team of scientists from ASU's School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute have recently ...
Carnegie Mellon named NSF planning institute for artificial intelligence in physics
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University has received a $500,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...
Scientists to discover the unique ductile properties of aluminum
During experiments on high-performance wire arc additive manufacturing researchers produced a metal with unique ductilityCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Sandwich catalysts offer higher activity and durability
Credit: In Su Lee (POSTECH) Sandwich is the food concocted by the 18th-ceuntry nobles to play card games uninterrupted. Meat ...
New approach soft material flow may yield way to new materials, disaster prediction
Credit: Photo courtesy U.S. Geology Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- How does toothpaste stay in its tube and not ooze out ...
A new lens on the world: Improving the metalens with liquid crystal
Case Western Reserve scientists, collaborators at Harvard and Italian university Unical, aim to 'revolutionize optics' by combining nanostructured metasurfaces with ...
A quantum thermometer to measure the coldest temperatures in the universe
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. Physicists from Trinity College Dublin have proposed a thermometer based on quantum entanglement that can accurately ...
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