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Physics & Astronomy

Adding Superheavy Elements: New Criteria for Discovery

This means that specified standards exist now for scientists in search of new heavy elements that their measurements and publications have to meet.

Life & Chemistry

Electric Car Batteries Inspire Safer, Cheaper Medicine Compounds

Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has enabled the rapid rise of…

Earth Sciences

Diving into Earth's interior helps scientists unravel secrets of diamond formation

It's the reason why the Earth has a clement stable climate and a low carbon dioxide atmosphere compared to that of Venus, for instance, which is in a runaway…

Physics & Astronomy

Kagome Magnets: Unlocking Quantum Potential with Topological Twist

Taking their name from an intricate Japanese basket pattern, kagome magnets are thought to have electronic properties that could be valuable for future quantum…

Earth Sciences

CCNY's Nir Krakauer in monsoon research breakthrough

Because of the monsoon's enormous impact on these sectors, his research is of importance to a range of activities, including agriculture, industry, fishing and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Convert Captured CO2 Into Oxalic Acid for Rare Earth Processing

What if we could not only capture carbon dioxide, but convert it into something useful? S. Komar Kawatra and his students have tackled that challenge, and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Framework Enhances Neural and Tech Systems Modeling

In 2010 substantial progress was made when the theory of percolation on interdependent networks was introduced by Prof. Shlomo Havlin and a team of researchers…

Health & Medicine

Unraveling Epilepsy: The Brain’s Triangular Connection

During an epileptic seizure, the nerve cells fire simultaneously in a very fast rhythm – like a thunderstorm in the brain. This results in seizures. Due to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

In the era of information technology revolution, electronics demand rapid evolution facilitated by greater efforts from materials researchers to pave the way…

Materials Sciences

Understanding high efficiency of deep ultraviolet LEDs

Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to…

Life & Chemistry

Russian scientists show changes in the erythrocyte nanostructure under stress

Various stress effects make an integral part of modern life, and their minimization is of particular relevance. Currently, much attention is being paid to the…

Physics & Astronomy

JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules

As featured on the cover of the Feb. 22 issue of Science, the team produced a gas of potassium-rubidium (KRb) molecules at temperatures as low as 50 nanokelvin…

Health & Medicine

Optimal Antibiotic Dosing Preserves Lung Diversity in Cystic Fibrosis

Children and young adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) whose lung infections were treated with suboptimal doses of antibiotics had fewer changes in lung microbial…

Physics & Astronomy

Decoding the Jet/Cocoon Riddle of Gravitational Waves

In August 2017, two neutron stars were observed colliding, producing gravitational waves that were detected by the American LIGO and European Virgo detectors….

Life & Chemistry

Candida Albicans: A Key Player in Our Immune System

The composition of the microorganisms living in and on our body – the so-called microbiome – has an enormous influence on human health. So far, it has not been…

Automotive Engineering

Solid state batteries for tomorrow's electric cars

The worldwide production of state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery cells is currently mainly controlled by Asian companies. If the European automotive industry…

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