Thomas Ebbesen, physical chemist, awarded the CNRS Gold Medal for 2019
Credit: © Caroline Schneider This year's CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's most prestigious scientific prize, has been awarded to ...
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DGIST Discovers control of cell signaling using a cobalt (iii)-nitrosyl complex
Credit: DGIST Two professors' joint research team discovered how to synthesize new materials to deliver nitric oxide, which controls cell ...
Methane vanishing on Mars: Danish researchers propose new mechanism as an explanation.
An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain the rapid disappearance ...
UH researcher reports the way sickle cells form may be key to stopping them
Process could be similar to how first living cells formed; applications to industry possibleCredit: University of Houston University of Houston ...
Experiment reverses the direction of heat flow
A study led by Brazilian scientists used quantum correlations to make heat flow from a colder to a hotter medium ...
Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids
Credit: The University of Queensland Pilots and air travellers know turbulence can be powerful, but science has struggled to fully ...
Experimental physicists redefine ultrafast, coherent magnetism
Credit: © J.K. Dewhurst Electronic properties of materials can be directly influenced via light absorption in under a femtosecond (10-15 ...
Science snapshots: A toxin antidote in frogs, atomic motion in 4D, and better biofuels
Credit: Alexander Tokarev/UCLA A Frog Worth Kissing: Natural Defense Against Red Tide Toxin Found in Bullfrogs By ALIYAH KOVNER A ...
First snapshots of trapped CO2 molecules shed new light on carbon capture
A new twist on cryo-EM imaging reveals what's going on inside MOFs, highly porous nanoparticles with big potential for storing ...
Bleach-induced transformation for humidity-durable air filters
Credit: DGIST Adding hydroquinone, a skin-bleaching ingredient, to a well-known 'metal organic framework' changes its copper ions in a way ...
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists announces 2019 National Laureates
An ecologist from Stony Brook University, a theoretical physicist from University of Colorado Boulder and a chemical biologist from Harvard ...
The making of ‘warm ice’
Development of ice controlling technology using pressureCredit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) Can water freeze at room ...
A new ‘golden’ age for electronics?
Materials that shrink when heated -- changing colour from black to golden -- could save expensive electronics from heat damageCredit: ...
Review emphasizes the power of simple physical models for complex protein machines
Credit: Kanazawa University The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various ...
Applying the Goldilocks principle to DNA structure
Scientists consider the form that may be 'just right' for scripting gene expressionCredit: Michelle Fredricks, UC San Diego Physical Sciences ...
Researchers discover traditional fluid flow observations may miss the big picture
Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED with permission from the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 21, 4587-4593. Copyright © 2019 ...
Gold for silver: A chemical barter
Scientists reveal the inter-cluster and intra-cluster dynamics of thiolate-protected gold-silver alloys, which is based on metal exchange From effective medicines ...
A sound idea: a step towards quantum computing
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigate a new method for generating coherent signals in silicon chips using laser-induced vibrations ...
New methods from material sciences in physics find their way into cancer research
Credit: Murillo Longo Martins Cancer research: A new study on the behavior of water in cancer cells shows how methods ...
Dundee lab solves HOIL-1 mystery
The mysterious function of a key protein has been revealed following a breakthrough by University of Dundee scientists The mysterious ...