FlatScope: Team designs lens-free fluorescent microscope
Lenses are no longer necessary for some microscopes, according to Rice University engineers developing FlatScope, a thin fluorescent microscope whose abilities promise to surpass...
New dual-atom catalyst shows promise to yield clean energy by artificial photosynthesis
Looking for new solutions to more efficiently harvest and store solar energy, scientists from the U.S. and China have synthesized a new, dual-atom catalyst...
Donor star breathes life into zombie companion
ESA's Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by a swollen red giant star revived its slow-spinning companion,...
Wildfires: Smoke and cloud interactions unexpectedly result in cooling
University of Wyoming researchers led a study that discovered that biomass smoke originating from South Africa that drifts over the southeast Atlantic Ocean significantly...
Team invents new way to ‘see’ the quantum world
JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of...
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life’s building blocks in space
Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D...
When rotated at a ‘magic angle,’ graphene sheets can form an insulator or a...
It's hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists...
Modified, 3D-printable alloy shows promise for flexible electronics, soft robots
Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable...
Researchers convert CO to CO2 with a single metal atom
Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have demonstrated for the first time that a single metal atom can act as a catalyst...
Technique to see objects hidden around corners
A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child's...
Massive astrophysical objects governed by subatomic equation
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum...
