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An artificial 'tongue' of gold to taste maple syrup
A chemistry professor has developed a new test using gold nanoparticles to establish the flavor profile of maple syrup and help producers evaluate its quality.
Saving energy and lives: How a solar chimney can boost fire safety
Built as part of the sustainable features of a new Australian building, the specially-designed solar chimney radically boosts safe evacuation time in a fire - from 2 minutes to over...
Scientists produce a magnetic nanocrystal with many potential applications
Spinels are oxides with chemical formulas of the type AB2O4, where A is a divalent metal cation (positive ion), B is a trivalent metal cation, and O is oxygen. Spinels...
Technique could enable cheaper fertilizer production
Most of the world's fertilizer is produced in large manufacturing plants, which require huge amounts of energy to generate the high temperatures and pressures needed to combine nitrogen and hydrogen...
An artificial 'tongue' of gold to taste maple syrup
It's said that maple syrup is Quebec's liquid gold. Now scientists at Université de Montréal have found a way to use real gold—in the form of nanoparticles—to quickly find out...
Researchers explore quantum computing to discover possible COVID-19 treatments
Quantum machine learning, an emerging field that combines machine learning and quantum physics, is the focus of research to discover possible treatments for COVID-19, according to Penn State researchers led...
Famous birthdays for May 5: Hannah Jeter, Nathan Chen
Model Hannah Jeter turns 30 and figure skater Nathan Chen turns 21, among the famous birthdays for May 5.
New imaging technology allows visualization of nanoscale structures inside whole cells and tissues
Since Robert Hooke’s first description of a cell in Micrographia 350 years ago, microscopy has played an important role in understanding the rules of life. However, the smallest resolvable feature,...
Supercapacitor promises storage, high power and fast charging
A new supercapacitor based on manganese oxide could combine the storage capacity of batteries with the high power and fast charging of other supercapacitors, according to researchers at Penn State...
Single-step strategy for recycling used nuclear fuel
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of...
Novel research speeds up threat detection, prevention for Army missions
Threat detection and prevention are essential to ensuring the safety and security of warfighters. Researchers have developed a way to speed up the processing of extremely large graphs and data,...
Novel magnetic field effect in diamagnetic molecules
New research demonstrates that an applied magnetic field will interact with the electronic structure of weakly magnetic, or diamagnetic, molecules to induce a magnetic-field effect that, to their knowledge, has...
Better baseball on TV: What MLB can learn from 'Bachelor' and 'Millionaire'
MLB stadiums without fans would be like playing in a giant television studio. TV executives offer ideas on reinventing baseball as entertainment.
Wirelessly charging electric cars as they drive
Stanford engineers have taken a big step toward making it practical for electric cars to recharge as they speed along futuristic highways built to “refuel” vehicles wirelessly. A new Stanford...
Study Reveals Single-Step Strategy For Recycling Used Nuclear Fuel
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of...
Engineers demonstrate next-generation solar cells can take the heat, maintain efficiency
Engineers have developed a next-generation solar cell that takes advantage of the promising elctro-optical properties of perovskite materials. They've made the materials much more stable at high temperatures and demonstrated...
New Ultrafast Camera Takes 70 Trillion Pictures Per Second
Just about everyone has had the experience of blinking while having their picture taken. The camera clicks, your eyes shut, and by the time they open again, the photo is...
B1-B bombers deployed to Guam
Four B1-B Lancer bombers and 200 airmen were deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, from Texas for training operations, the U.S. Air Force announced on Monday.
Study reveals single-step strategy for recycling used nuclear fuel
A typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates. What is left behind is an assortment of...
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
Researchers have integrated high-efficiency solar cells and electrode catalysts into an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.
Single-crystal electrodes can speed up design of new battery systems
Scientists have created and tested a single-crystal electrode that promises to yield pivotal discoveries for advanced batteries under development worldwide.
Motorized video stabilizers that smooth out shaky shots
For steadier shots. (Marvin Meyer via Unsplash/)When Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa ran up the 72 steps outside Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, the movie’s cinematographer needed a way to follow him without the...
Scholes finds novel magnetic field effect in diamagnetic molecules
The Princeton University Department of Chemistry publishes research this week proving that an applied magnetic field will interact with the electronic structure of weakly-magnetic, or diamagnetic, molecules to induce a...
Taika Waititi to direct, co-write new 'Star Wars' film
Taika Waititi has signed on to direct and co-write a new "Star Wars" film.
U.S. Navy ships, trailed by Russia, visit Barents Sea above Arctic Circle
U.S. Navy ships on Monday entered the Barents Sea between Norway and Russia, for the first time since the 1980s, "to assert freedom of navigation and demonstrate seamless integration among...
How to put neurons into cages
Football-shaped microscale cages have been created using special laser technologies. Using sound waves as tweezers, living neurons can be placed inside these cages to study how nerve connections are being...
To make an atom-sized machine, you need a quantum mechanic
Here's a new chapter in the story of the miniaturisation of machines: researchers in a laboratory in Singapore have shown that a single atom can function as either an engine...
Water-splitting module a source of perpetual energy
Rice University researchers have created an efficient, low-cost device that splits water to produce hydrogen fuel.