Chemistry AND Physics

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays…

Days after the 4 August 2020 massive explosion at the port of Beirut in Lebanon, researchers were on the ground mapping the impacts of the explosion in the port and surrounding city. The goal was to document and preserve data on…

Prof. Dr. Piet O. Schmidt receives ERC Advanced Grant from the EU -- 2.5 million euros for a five-year projectCredit: (Credit: PTB) It is about fundamental questions of modern fundamental physics: Is our description of nature complete?…

Temperature of planets reveal new details, scientists say COLUMBUS, Ohio - In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector: exoplanets. In a new paper, two…

MoNiKa: Researchers and industry work on technologies for energy-efficient power generation from low-temperature heatCredit: Markus Breig/Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Low-temperature heat in the form of waste heat from industry or…

Credit: Ella Maru Studio (https://scientific-illustrations.com) Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a medium by creating an interference pattern made of parallel stripes of…

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 22, 2021 -- Catalytic converters cut down on toxic car emissions, and, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, they're one of the greatest environmental inventions of…

Credit: Chemical Science Stimulus-responsive supramolecular structures have emerged as an alternative to conventional ones, owing to their applications in sensing, drug delivery, and switchable memory systems. Now, scientists…

Scientists established a new concept of "photoexpansion" using microfabricated polycinnamate hard films revealed by time-resolved IR spectroscopyCredit: Image courtesy: Tatsuo Kaneko and Kenji Takada from Japan Advanced Institute of Science…

Credit: WEHI, Australia Potential new antimalarial drug candidates are being developed through an extended drug-discovery collaboration between Australian medical research institute WEHI and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV. The…

The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new way to control light emitting from materialsCredit: Nano Letters Cover, Volume 21, Issue 7 - Recent discoveries focused…

Two European Research Council's Advanced Grants will fund robot research, advanced chemistryCredit: Kai Dragland, NTNU Two professors from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have been awarded prestigious ERC…

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and "concentrated" sunlight have in common? Researchers from Sandia National…

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a rotating baby galaxy 1/100th the size of the Milky Way at a time when…

Credit: IBEC Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological entities have achieved throughout millennia of evolution - actions like moving, adapting to the environment, or sensing. Beyond traditional rigid robots, the field…

Suppressing a gene regulator could reduce pancreatic cancer resistance to vital chemotherapeutic treatment.Credit: Yutaka Kondo Nagoya University researchers and colleagues in Japan have uncovered a molecular pathway that enhances…

Credit: WVU Water researchers at West Virginia University hope to turn a pollutant - acid mine drainage - into a technological resource through the continuation of a $2.1 million contract from the National Energy Technology Laboratory.…

Credit: WVU Water researchers at West Virginia University hope to turn a pollutant - acid mine drainage - into a technological resource through the continuation of a $2.1 million contract from the National Energy Technology Laboratory.…

New collaboration on self-driving laboratories to focus on materials design in the areas of energy, the environment, structural and biomedical applicationsCredit: Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto TORONTO, ON - The Acceleration…

Researchers at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - and the John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom, determine that gene-regulatory mechanisms at an early embryonic stage govern…