Chemistry AND Physics

Wayne State University professor to lead effortsCredit: Wayne State University College of Engineering DETROIT - Shifting the current energy landscape away from fossil fuels is a major challenge that will require the development of…

A new experiment has characterised the properties of the electrons emitted when a key constituent of DNA is bombarded with high-velocity ions When fast-moving ions cross paths with large biomolecules, the resulting collisions produce many…

Credit: ©Science China Press As the most abundant constituent in Earth's atmosphere, dinitrogen (N2) is the main nitrogen source of N-containing compounds in the Earth. Therefore, N2 fixation and activation are essential both for…

How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first billion years, there was no oxygen on Earth. Life developed in an anoxic environment.…

Advance could help doctors choose the right drug at the right dose for the right personCredit: Jialun Zhu, Shuyu Lin, and Yichao Zhao (I²BL/UCLA) Engineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and their colleagues at Stanford…

Toward an era where aging can be controlledCredit: Professor Mitsuyoshi Nakao Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have used comprehensive genetic analysis to find that the enzyme NSD2, which is known to regulate…

Researchers use 3D cell culture technology to replicate the pathogenetic process of pulmonary arterial hypertensionCredit: © 2020 Mitsunobu R. Kano Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare--albeit deadly--disease that…

Chemical reactions driven by the geological conditions on the early Earth might have led to the prebiotic evolution of self-replicating molecules. Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet (LMU) in Munich now report on a hydrothermal…

High-speed motor protein developed by gene fusion promotes growth and seed yield of Camelina sativaCredit: Motoki Tominaga In JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, a group of Zhongrui Duan (Researcher, Waseda University)…

Transitioning our energy supply from coal, oil and gas to wind and solar power is feasible. However, renewables require more land than conventional forms of energy generation. A new study explores the options to reduce the land…

Credit: Photo by Chamteut Oh CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of N95 respirator masks. The University of Illinois,…

Credit: Credits: NASA/MAVEN/Goddard Space Flight Center/CU/LASP Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate complex…

A $2.8 million grant seeks improved treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients to let them recover faster with fewer long-term complications. It hinges on delivering statins to the brain, where their neuroprotective properties may save…

As more states in the U.S. push for increased reliance on variable renewable energy in the form of wind or solar power, long-term energy storage may play an important role in assuring reliability and reducing electricity costs, according…

For communication, this means the speed of a message traveling in these packets is no longer affected by traveling through different materials of different densities ORLANDO, August 6, 2020 - University of Central Florida researchers…

MADISON - Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method combining sticky nanoparticles with high-precision protein measurement to capture and analyze a common marker of heart disease to reveal details that…

Consider it Earth's ultimate mirror selfie. In a new study, a team led by astrophysicist Allison Youngblood at the University of Colorado Boulder set out to achieve something new in planetary photography: The group used the Hubble Space…

EAST LANSING, Mich. - How much of a treatment is mind over matter? It is well documented that people often feel better after taking a treatment without active ingredients simply because they believe it's real -- known as the placebo…

International research team discovers unusual molecular structuresCredit: (Image: Anne Günther/Uni Jena) (Jena, Germany) The periodic system contains 118 chemical elements. However, only a few of them, such as hydrogen, carbon,…

Credit: Virginia Tech A team of geoscience researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Science has developed a new theory to explain how and why injection-induced earthquakes continue to occur even when injection rates decline.…