Not Just a Figure of Speech: New Fluorescent Dye Can Light Up the Brain
Rice University’s laboratory creates a new imaging tool with the potential for cancer treatment. Talk about a bright idea: Lighting up the brain is no…
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The Best Catalyst Particles: Cubes Outperform Spheres
Researchers Discover Unusual Compound in Famous 17th-Century Painting
New Form of Ice Discovered – May Shake Up Our Understanding of Water
Revolutionary Automated Method Predicts Stereochemistry of Pericyclic Reactions
Easily Recyclable and Compostable – A New Plastic With Excellent Mechanical Stability
An Overlooked Phenomenon – Researchers Discover Evidence of a “Hidden” State Involving One of the Most Common Ions
Unlocking the Unimaginable: Revolutionary New Method for Materials Discovery
Cambridge Scientists Have Discovered a Dynamic Fractal in Clean Magnetic Crystal
A Golden Solution to Pollution? Scientists Have Developed a New Method of Reducing Carbon Dioxide
The conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide (CO) through electrochemical reactions has the potential to reduce pollution levels by removing CO2 from the…
Scientists Recycle Previously Unrecyclable Plastic
PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is a widely used plastic in the United States and globally, ranking as the third highest by volume worldwide. It can…
Scientists Unlock Nature’s Secret to Super-Selective Binding
EPFL researchers have found that controlling super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces requires not only adjusting the molecular density but also the pattern…
Chemists Have Developed a New Way To Produce an Important Molecular Entity
A new method for the easy production of vicinal diamines has been developed by chemists. A team led by Professor Frank Glorius of the University…
Scientists Have Developed a Living “Bio-Solar Cell” That Runs on Photosynthesis
Plants are often thought of as sources of food, oxygen, and decoration, but not as a source of electricity. However, scientists have discovered that by…
Revolutionizing Renewable Energy: Using Sunlight To Produce Hydrogen Fuel Out of Thin Air
A device that can harvest water from the air and provide hydrogen fuel—entirely powered by solar energy—has been a dream for researchers for decades. Now,…
Extraordinary Discovery May Substantially Change Our Understanding of the Mechanism of Photosynthesis
Light-Driven CO2 Assimilation by Photosystem II and Its Relation to Photosynthesis Photosynthesis is the greatest natural process converting sunlight into chemical energy on a massive…
A Giant Leap Towards a Greener Future: Breakthrough in Sustainable Ammonia and Fertilizer Production
New MOFs use less energy to separate ammonia from chemical reactants in Haber-Bosch process. Industrial production of ammonia, primarily for synthetic fertilizer — the fuel…
Princeton Chemists Create Quantum Dots at Room Temperature Using Custom Protein
Researchers at Princeton’s Department of Chemistry discovered the first known de novo protein that catalyzes, or drives, the synthesis of quantum dots. Nature uses 20…
