Matter & Energy News
April 18, 2024
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Apr. 10, 2024 — In a new breakthrough that could revolutionise medical and material engineering, scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind molecular device that controls the release of multiple small molecules ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study. In a first, the team precisely ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team has succeeded in ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — Important data can be stored and concealed quite easily in ordinary plastic using 3D printers and terahertz radiation, scientists show. Holography can be done quite easily: A 3D printer can be used to produce a panel from normal plastic in which a ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 — In some materials, spins form complex magnetic structures within the nanometer and micrometer scale in which the magnetization direction twists and curls along specific directions. Examples of such ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A team has constructed an improved mid-infrared microscope, enabling them to see the structures inside living bacteria at the nanometer scale. Mid-infrared microscopy is typically limited by its low ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the 'e-tongue' still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated wine in a ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer treatments, in the ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Engineers have developed a record-setting nanomaterial which when stretched in one direction, expands perpendicular to the applied ...
Apr. 2, 2024 — An international team working with single-atom thick crystals found TaIrTe4's transition between the two distinct topological states of insulation ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — In an approach they call 'nanostitching,' engineers used carbon nanotubes to prevent cracking in multilayered composites. The advance could lead to next-generation airplanes and ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Scientists have found a way to transform metal waste into a highly efficient catalyst to make hydrogen from water, a discovery that could make ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Tagging marine animals with sensors to track their movements and ocean conditions can provide important environmental and behavioral information. ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Simulations on the Stampede2 supercomputer of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are helping scientists engineer solutions to overheating of grid transformers -- a critical component of the ...
Earlier Headlines
Apr. 16, 2024 — Scientists using neutrons set the first benchmark (one nanosecond) for a polymer-electrolyte and lithium-salt mixture. Findings could boost power and safety for lithium ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — A researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ancient Egyptian ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers adapt a novel force measurement technique to uncover the previously unidentified physics at play at the thin air-film gap between water droplets and superhydrophobic ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers, this has given the gold new ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — An international research team has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any mass, in the same way that light travels. ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — In their ongoing quest to develop a range of methods for managing plasma so it can be used to generate electricity in a process known as fusion, researchers have shown how two old methods can be ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — International shipping does not want to be a climate bad guy and is aiming to be emission-free by 2050. A new tool can help shipowners who are searching for green ...
Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — 4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — From heatwaves to pandemic diseases, the urban environments of the world face numerous challenges. Researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and informatics to address emerging concerns ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have shown that a transition to green wastewater-treatment approaches in the U.S. that leverages the potential of carbon-financing could save a staggering $15.6 billion and just under 30 ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Hall ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — The technology revolution and development of new renewable energy resources is driving demand for lithium to new heights, but it is not a common mineral. Scientists say they have found lithium in an ...
Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI application using cartoons from The New Yorker to help people be ...
Apr. 12, 2024 — The rise of RNA viruses like SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for new ways to fight them. RNA-targeting tools like CRISPR/Cas13 are powerful but inefficient in the cytoplasm of cells, where many RNA ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — What if changes in a person's stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable devices? A new study find changes in perceived stress levels reflected in sleep data -- an important ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — New research suggests that materials commonly overlooked in computer chip design actually play an important role in information processing, a discovery which could lead to faster and more efficient ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Adding one simple rule to an idealized game of billiards leads to a wealth of intriguing mathematical questions, as well as applications in the physics of living organisms. Researchers are ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — A new detector system based on the game 'Tetris' could enable inexpensive, accurate radiation detectors for monitoring nuclear ...
Apr. 11, 2024 — Using machine learning, researchers have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of subsurface rocks beneath the Earth, a discovery that could have implications for improving ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Neutrons Rule the Roost for Cage-Free Lithium Ions
- Researchers Advance Pigment Chemistry With Moon-Inspired Reddish Magentas
- Physicists Explain--and Eliminate--Unknown Force Dragging Against Water Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
- A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene
- Quantum Electronics: Charge Travels Like Light in Bilayer Graphene
- Creating an Island Paradise in a Fusion Reactor
- Researchers Can Help Shipowners Achieve Ambitious Climate Targets
- Crucial Connection for 'quantum Internet' Made for the First Time
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research
- GeoAI Technologies for Sustainable Urban Development
- Switch to Green Wastewater Infrastructure Could Reduce Emissions and Provide Huge Savings According to New Research
- Quantum Precision: A New Kind of Resistor
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
- AI Can Write You a Poem and Edit Your Video. Now, It Can Help You Be Funnier
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep
- 'Surprising' Hidden Activity of Semiconductor Material Spotted by Researchers
- Trapped in the Middle: Billiards With Memory
- With Inspiration from 'Tetris,' Researchers Develop a Better Radiation Detector
- Rock Permeability, Microquakes Link May Be a Boon for Geothermal Energy
- A New Spin on Organic Shampoo Makes It Sudsier, Longer Lasting
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- New AI Method Captures Uncertainty in Medical Images
- Star Trek's Holodeck Recreated Using ChatGPT and Video Game Assets
- Discovery Brings All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries Closer to Practical Use
- Nothing Is Everything: How Hidden Emptiness Can Define the Usefulness of Filtration Materials
- Cloud Engineering Could Be More Effective 'painkiller' For Global Warming Than Previously Thought
- Synthetic Platelets Stanch Bleeding, Promote Healing in Animal Models
- Proud Seafarers Have Strong Doubts About the Safety of Autonomous Ships
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New 3D-Printing Method Makes Printing Objects More Affordable and Eco-Friendly
- Quantum Breakthrough When Light Makes Materials Magnetic
- New Method of Measuring Qubits Promises Ease of Scalability in a Microscopic Package
- Breakthrough for Next-Generation Digital Displays
- New Strategy for Assessing the Applicability of Reactions
- Waterproof 'e-Glove' Could Help Scuba Divers Communicate
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
- New Device Gathers, Stores Electricity in Remote Settings
- Tiny Plastic Particles Are Found Everywhere
- Could New Technique for 'curving' Light Be the Secret to Improved Wireless Communication?
- Subterranean Storage of Hydrogen
- A Smarter City Skyline for Flood Safety
- New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels
- BESSY II: How Pulsed Charging Enhances the Service Time of Batteries
- Cardiology Team Performs Novel Heart Artery Repair With Newly Approved Device
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Will the Convergence of Light and Matter in Janus Particles Transcend Performance Limitations in the Optical Display Industry?
- A Pulse of Innovation: AI at the Service of Heart Research
- Engineers Design Soft and Flexible 'skeletons' For Muscle-Powered Robots
- This 3D Printer Can Figure out How to Print With an Unknown Material
- New Four-Terminal Tandem Organic Solar Cell Achieves 16.94% Power Conversion Efficiency
- Novel Robust-Optimal Controllers Based on Fuzzy Descriptor System
- Protecting Art and Passwords With Biochemistry
- Scientists Unveil Cutting-Edge Ruthenium Catalyst for New Reaction Discovery and Optimization
- Using Pulp and Paper Waste to Scrub Carbon from Emissions
- How Mosquito Larva Guts Could Help Create Highly Specific Insecticides
- PFAS 'forever Chemicals' Above Drinking Water Guidelines in Global Source Water
- How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation
- Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of 3-D Magnetic Recording
Friday, April 5, 2024
- Ocean Waves Propel PFAS Back to Land
- A Simple, Inexpensive Way to Make Carbon Atoms Bind Together
- Innovative Sensing Platform Unlocks Ultrahigh Sensitivity in Conventional Sensors
- Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes
- Rapid, Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Bacteria Achieved With Handheld Sensor
- Kerr-Enhanced Optical Spring for Next-Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Britain Began Industrializing in the 17th Century -- Over a 100 Years Earlier Than History Books Claim
- Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors
- Self-Assembly of Complex Systems: Hexagonal Building Blocks Are Better
- One-Third of Ride-Share Drivers Have Had a Crash on the Job, Survey Finds
- Researchers 3D Print Key Components for a Point-of-Care Mass Spectrometer
- Physics of Complex Fluids: Ring Polymers Show Unexpected Motion Patterns Under Shear
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- 'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
- For Mining in Arid Regions to Be Responsible, We Must Change How We Think About Water
- Developing a Vaccine for the 'zombie Drug' Xylazine
- Researchers Discover 'neutronic Molecules'
- 'Smart Swarms' Of Tiny Robots Inspired by Natural Herd Mentality
- Machine Learning Enables Viability of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines
- Plant-Based Plastic Releases Nine Times Less Microplastics Than Conventional Plastic
- Drawing Inspiration from Plants: A Metal-Air Paper Battery for Wearable Devices
- Unleashing Disordered Rocksalt Oxides as Cathodes for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries
- New Granular Materials Flow but Can Still Be Compressed
- Researchers Visualize Quantum Effects in Electron Waves
- Plastic-Free Vegan Leather That Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
- Magnetic Fields Boost Clean Energy
- Water-Based Paints: Less Stinky, but Some Still Contain Potentially Hazardous Chemicals
- Research Reveals Pre-Collapse Monitoring of Kakhovka Dam, Ukraine
- Intelligent Liquid
- A Simple Way to Harvest More 'blue Energy' From Waves
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Elastocaloric Cooling: Refrigerator Cools by Flexing Artificial Muscles
- Sunrise to Sunset, New Window Coating Blocks Heat -- Not View
- AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans, Study Finds
- Building Blocks for Greener Energy: Reconfigurable Elastic Metasurface
- Biofilm-Resistant Glass for Marine Environments
- Chemistry Researchers Modify Solar Technology to Produce a Less Harmful Greenhouse Gas
- Wound Treatment Gel Fights the Battle Against Antibacterial Resistance
- 100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer
- New Materials Discovered for Safe, High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Engineers 'symphonize' Cleaner Ammonia Production
- Are High-Purity Cathode Materials Truly Necessary?
- Cellphone Compass Can Measure Tiny Concentrations of Compounds Important for Human Health
- Physics-Based Predictive Tool Will Speed Up Battery and Superconductor Research
- Researchers Produce Grafts That Replicate the Human Ear