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Materials Sciences

Lateral Thinking: Overcoming Production Challenges in Semiconductors

Two-dimensional semiconductor monolayers, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides like WSe2 and MoS2, have unique electrical and optical…

Life & Chemistry

Ocean Microbes: Key to Airborne Diversity and Ecosystem Health

Understanding the oceans' role as a source and sink for airborne microbes can provide insight into the maintenance of microbial diversity and how human, animal…

Life & Chemistry

Neutrons Illuminate Vitamin B6 Enzyme for Drug Development

Specifically, the team used neutron crystallography to study the location of hydrogen atoms in aspartate aminotransferase, or AAT, an enzyme vital to the…

Physics & Astronomy

First Direct Observation of Neutron Star Merger

On August 17, 2017, at 12:41:04 UTC, scientists made the first direct observation of a merger between two neutron stars–the dense, collapsed cores that remain…

Earth Sciences

NASA Discovers Tropical Storm Lan Over Open Waters

Tropical Storm Lan developed on Oct. 15 and has been moving to the west-northwest over open ocean.

Life & Chemistry

Plants Evolve To Escape Waterlogging Amid Climate Risks

Researchers are warning about more frequently occurring extreme weather events in the future as a result of climate change. Current environmental catastrophes…

Physics & Astronomy

First Light from Neutron Star Merger: A New Era in Astronomy

Previous detections of gravitational waves have all involved the merger of two black holes, a feat that won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month….

Life & Chemistry

Oysters as Solutions: New Study on Nutrient Pollution Reduction

When it comes to oysters and their role in reducing nutrient pollution, a new study by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Knots in the Early Universe: A New Dimensional Theory

An international team of physicists has developed an out-of-the-box theory which proposes that shortly after it popped into existence 13.8 billion years ago…

Life & Chemistry

First Breakthrough in Reading Digitally Encoded Synthetic Molecules

Will hard drives one day use polymers for data storage? For several years now, researchers have faced the challenge of trying to record information with these…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Confirm Heavy Elements from Neutron Star Mergers

On October 16 a team of scientists, including members from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations and several astronomical groups, announced the detection of both…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Myc Proteins: Insights from Tumor Matchmaking

Most human tumours have one thing in common: They harbour drastically increased amounts of the so-called Myc proteins. Animal experiments show that such high…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Genetic Screening Methods for Better Insights

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is an adage that applies to many concepts in biology. For genetic screens, however, it is the individual…

Event News

ASEAN Explores Future of Renewable Energy at AEO5 Meeting

The 5th ASEAN Energy Outlook (AEO5), like its 2015 predecessor, was accompanied scientifically by Fraunhofer ISI and developed by the ASEAN Centre for Energy,…

Physics & Astronomy

‘Find the Lady’ in the quantum world

Imagine that you are playing the game of ‘Find the Lady’ – in fact, a very simple version of it: The croupier is no hardened con artist, but rather a…

Physics & Astronomy

Single Photon Uncovers Quantum Entanglement of 16 Million Atoms

Quantum theory is unequivocal: it predicts that a vast number of atoms can be entangled and intertwined by a very strong quantum relationship even in a…

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