Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Topics range from quantum field theory and media anthropology to collective decision-making and inflammatory tumour secretome / €72 million for initial four-and-a-half-year period The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research…

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The black holes of Einstein's theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge. Since two black holes that share these…

Credit: © 2019 FAMU-FSU College of Engineering The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is…

Credit: Valles lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For years, physicists have assumed that Cooper pairs, the electron duos that enable superconductors to conduct electricity without resistance, were two-trick ponies. The pairs…

Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now…

Terahertz frequency laser paves the way for better sensing, imaging and communicationsCredit: Arman Amirzhan, Harvard SEAS The terahertz frequency range - which sits in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between…

Device may enable '"T-ray vision' and better wireless communication Within the electromagnetic middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of "T-ray vision." Terahertz waves have…

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Since the 1990s, scientists have been exploring the possibilities of miniaturized chemical "laboratories" on a chip, which have potential as point-of-care diagnostics, analysis…

Credit: Image courtesy of the David Baum lab MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have cultivated lifelike chemical reactions while pioneering a new strategy for studying the origin of life. The work is…

Photocatalyst builds 3D scaffolds from flat aromatics/Study published in ChemCredit: Jiajia Ma Some of the most biologically active molecules, including synthetic drugs, contain a central, nitrogen-containing chemical structure…