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Materials Sciences

New Rhodium Catalyst Reduces Precious Metal in Organosilicon

Now, Ken Motokura of Tokyo Institute of technology (Tokyo Tech) and colleagues have devised a new catalyst consisting of three core components — a rhodium…

Information Technology

New 3D Display Reduces Eye Fatigue in Virtual Reality

There is a great deal of excitement around virtual reality (VR) headsets that display a computer-simulated world and augmented reality (AR) glasses that…

Life & Chemistry

CWRU Researchers Develop Chemical Solution for Data Storage

From supercomputers to smartphones, the amount of data people generate and collect continues to grow exponentially, and the need to store all that information…

Life & Chemistry

Warming Temperatures Impact Sea Turtles’ Survival Rates

The study by Dr Jacques-Olivier Laloë of the University's College of Science and published in the Global Change Biology journal, argues that warmer…

Medical Engineering

New Technique Enhances Brain Scans for Stroke Detection

People who suffer a stroke often undergo a brain scan at the hospital, allowing doctors to determine the location and extent of the damage. Researchers who…

Physics & Astronomy

New LED Light Engine Enhances UV Research Efficiency

Omicron‘s innovative „LedHUB LED Light Engine“ represents a new form of LED light source for science and research. The high-performance system can be equipped…

Business and Finance

Rewiring Financial Networks to Cut Systemic Risk

A tax on systemically risky transactions could reshape financial networks into a new structure that is less vulnerable to cascading financial system shocks…

Physics & Astronomy

Spin liquids − back to the roots

Since 1973, Anderson's resonating valence bond model remains a paradigm for microscopic description of quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets. It is of…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Discovers Dead Disk Galaxy That Challenges Evolution Theories

Finding such a galaxy early in the history of the universe challenges the current understanding of how massive galaxies form and evolve, say researchers.

Materials Sciences

3-D Printed Graphene Foam: Rice U. Chemists Break New Ground

The research could yield industrially useful quantities of bulk graphene and is described online in a new study in the American Chemical Society journal ACS…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Algae: Nature’s Versatile Innovation in Ecosystems

Algae are everywhere. They are part of crusts on desert surfaces and form massive blooms in lakes and oceans. They range in size from tiny single-celled…

Physics & Astronomy

New Femto-Camera Captures Cellular Activity at Speed of Light

Vital activity of living cells is a complex sequence of biochemical reactions and physical processes; many of them take place with high temporal resolution. To…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Proton Movement in Fuel Cells: Key to Energy Storage Advances

As charge carriers, electrons and ions play the leading role in electrochemical energy storage devices and converters such as batteries and fuel cells. Proton…

Earth Sciences

New Climate Satellite Tracks Methane Using Laser Technology

Methane is primarily the result of the decomposition of organic matter. The gas has a 25 times greater warming potential than carbon dioxide, but is not as…

Life & Chemistry

Stop Tumor Development: New Insights from Immune System Cells

The mammalian immune system consists of millions of individual cells that are produced daily from precursor cells in the bone marrow. During their development,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Sleeping Sickness Pathogen: Trypanosoma Brucei

The life-threatening African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei. A team at the Biocentre…

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