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Three-dimensional molecular structure of TASK channel described
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Marburg and Bayer Pharmaceuticals has developed a way to describe the three-dimensional molecular structure of TASK channels. In...
Study discovers how primordial bacteria adapted to arsenic
If you could borrow H.G. Wells' time machine and travel back three billion years, it would take your breath away, literally. There was no oxygen in the air. You wouldn't...
Drop in fossil fuel emissions from coronavirus response is changing Earth's air, NASA satellites show
Fossil fuel emissions are dropping as a result of changing human behaviors in response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, NASA satellites continue to show.
50 years ago, superconductors started feeling the pressure
Superconductivity under pressure, Science News, May 2, 1970 – Cooling certain metals to temperatures near absolute zero turns them into superconductors, substances without electrical resistance, in which currents flow without power loss. In...
Team makes breakthrough in separation science with sub-Angstrom precision
An international research team that includes Vanderbilt engineers is the first to successfully separate two ions with very, very small size differences, a major advancement in separation science with widespread...
Twisting 2-D materials uncover their superpowers
Two-dimensional (2-D) materials, which consist of a single layer of atoms, have attracted a lot of attention since the isolation of graphene in 2004. They have unique electrical, optical, and...
In search of the lighting material of the future
At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The substance enables high light yields and would be inexpensive to...
Gelatin could soon power our wearables and IoT devices
Ground-breaking research published in Science and led by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has found that gelatin could be used to power devices in the future, using only...
On This Day, May 1: Francis Gary Powers' spy plane shot down
On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers, who was captured.
Intricate magnetic configuration of 3D nanoscale gyroid networks revealed
A multinational team of researchers has revealed the magnetic states of nanoscale gyroids, 3D chiral network-like nanostructures. The findings add a new candidate system for research into unconventional information processing...
Machine learning enhances light-matter interactions in dielectric nanostructures
A new discovery has promising possibilities for the development of a wide range of photonic devices and applications including those involved in optical sensing, optoacoustic vibrations, and narrowband filtering.
Making lithium-ion batteries more environmentally friendly
New process uses water-soluble binders to avoid the need for organic solvents in manufacturing and recycling
New technology could provide rapid detection of COVID-19
Researchers have developed a new technology that flexibly scales up CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics, using microfluidics chips that can run thousands of tests simultaneously. A single chip’s capacity ranges from detecting...
Superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven material discovery
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials that has promising applications for solid-state batteries, fuel cells, 3D printing technologies, and beyond.
Gravitational waves could prove the existence of the quark-gluon plasma
According to modern particle physics, matter produced when neutron stars merge is so dense that it could exist in a state of dissolved elementary particles. This state of matter, called...
Water is key in catalytic conversion of methane to methanol
Scientists reveal new details that explain how a highly selective catalyst converts methane, the main component of natural gas, to methanol, an easy-to-transport liquid fuel and feedstock for making plastics,...
Watch: Indian engineer's 'COVID-19 Bike' keeps riders 5 feet apart
An Indian automobile engineer custom built a "COVID-19 Bike" with about 5 feet of distance between its two seats.
Superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven material discovery
Scientists in the University of Maryland (UMD)'s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials that has...
First-of-its-kind demonstration unlocks further discovery for quantum technologies
Hidden within countless materials are valuable properties that will enable the next generation of technologies, like quantum computing and improved solar cells.
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Evidence for an edge supercurrent in the Weyl superconductor MoTe2
Edge supercurrents in superconductors have long been an elusive target. Interest in them has reappeared in the context of topological superconductivity. We report evidence for the existence of a robust...
Ferromagnetic order beyond the superconducting dome in a cuprate superconductor
According to conventional wisdom, the extraordinary properties of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors arise from doping a strongly correlated antiferromagnetic insulator. The highly overdoped cuprates—whose doping lies beyond the dome of...
A general method to synthesize and sinter bulk ceramics in seconds
Ceramics are an important class of materials with widespread applications because of their high thermal, mechanical, and chemical stability. Computational predictions based on first principles methods can be a valuable...
Water-promoted interfacial pathways in methane oxidation to methanol on a CeO2-Cu2O catalyst
Highly selective oxidation of methane to methanol has long been challenging in catalysis. Here, we reveal key steps for the promotion of this reaction by water when tuning the selectivity...
Three-dimensional cross-nanowire networks recover full terahertz state
Terahertz radiation encompasses a wide band of the electromagnetic spectrum, spanning from microwaves to infrared light, and is a particularly powerful tool for both fundamental scientific research and applications such...
Precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime
The explicit breaking of the axial symmetry by quantum fluctuations gives rise to the so-called axial anomaly. This phenomenon is solely responsible for the decay of the neutral pion 0...
A newfound superconducting current travels only along a material’s edge
Superconductors are getting edgy. For the first time, scientists have spotted a superconducting current traveling along the edge of a material, like a trail of ants crawling along the rim of a...
Researchers detect a supercurrent at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist
A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents—the flow of electrons without wasting energy—along the exterior edge...