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A research team from Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a promising way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene an important chemical used to produce plastics, solvents, cosmetics and other important products globally. The scientists developed nanosc

The disinfectant spray will use UCF-developed cerium oxide nanoparticles that have been shown to have a wide range of therapeutic properties. Current disinfectant products for killing viruses like coronavirus take minutes to fully sanitize surfaces, which isn't practical on high-contact areas such

Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light, according research from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics.

Scientists found the 'secret molecule' that allows Geobacter microbes to exhale electrons over vast distances underground

Professor James Rondinelli's new design criteria for enhancing the spin lifetime of a class of quantum materials could support Internet of Things devices and other resource-intensive technologies.

You can feel it on your laptop and mobile phone. It's behind your refrigerator and office copy machine. While heat is desirable for appliances like a coffee maker, it can jeopardize the reliability and safety of electronic systems in other devices, causing premature failure at best and explosions at worst.

A medical robotic hand could allow doctors to more accurately diagnose and treat people from halfway around the world, but currently available technologies aren't good enough to match the in-person experience. Now researchers have reported that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data by using a newly invented rubbery semiconductor.

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A Swiss team has created tiny, fluid-filled channels in microchips to spirit away heat and save energy

A new discovery is an important step towards smaller, more advanced electronics. And maybe more environmentally friendly gadgets, too.

How do you turn on and off an ultra-small component in advanced technologies? You need an actuator, a device that transmits an input such as electricity into physical motion. However, actuators in small-scale technologies to date have critical limitations. For example, if it's difficult to integrate the actuator into semiconductor electronics, real-world applications of the technology will be limited. An actuator design that operates quickly, has precise on/off control, and is compatible with mo

Researchers from Osaka University have developed an ultra-small actuator that can be turned on and off in a fraction of a millisecond and exhibits nanometer-scale position control. This actuator is unparalleled in modern technologies, and will be useful in robotics, medicine, and many other advanced applications.

Some of the most interesting places to study in our solar system are found in the most inhospitable environments but landing on any planetary body is already a risky proposition. With NASA planning robotic and crewed missions to new locations on the Moon and Mars, avoiding landing on the steep slo

NASA ponders two Venusian probes; Russian official calls Venus a Russian planet.

After an intriguing detection of phosphine in the clouds of Venus, it may take one or more spacecraft visiting our neighboring planet for scientists to truly understand what's happening.

Helped create the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, the largest collection of space debris in the West

Researchers have developed a way for early Mars travelers to build pretty much whatever they need using a fibrous material found on Earth. Chitin, which is found in the shells of sea creatures and insects, can be used to create rigid objects like tools.

Researchers announced Monday that they have identified possible signs of life in the harsh acidic clouds of the planet Venus.

India has also come up with its Shukrayaan-1 mission for Venus to analyse its chemistry by orbiting around the planet.

After the recent discovery of possible life on Venus, NASA is now contemplating approving missions to Venus to find out the truth.

After years of neglect, Earths other neighbor is back in the spotlight following a major discovery. A private rocket company may be the first to visit.

[On Monday, scientific research was published showing phosphine, a possible signature of life, present in the atmosphere of Venus. The following is NASA's announcement related to this discovery. -ed.] A paper about chemistry on Venus was recently published in Nature Astronomy. NASA was not involv

Their one-pot recipe makes a reportedly healthier alternative sweetener

Phosphine in the atmosphere of a rocky planet is proposed to be a strong signature for life.

Rare earth elements are vital for many modern technologies. Chemists at LMU have now shown that a cofactor found in a bacterial enzyme can selectively extract some of these metals from mixtures in an environmentally benign fashion.

Phosphine is considered a marker of anaerobic life but exactly how (Earth) bacteria create it is still a mystery

The exchange of molecules between different physical or chemical environments due to diffusion or chemical transformations has a crucial role in a plethora of fundamental processes such as breathing, protein folding, chemical reactions and catalysis.

Chemistry and structural biology use the standard methods of NMR spectroscopy (NMR = nuclear magnetic resonance) to examine the structure of molecules including large molecules like proteins in solution. The NMR active nuclei, such as hydrogen atoms, are excited using radiofrequency pulses in spectrometers with strong magnetic fields. The different environments of the nuclei can be detected and conclusions about the molecular structure can be drawn from analysis of the generated spectra.

Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures that call it home, different forms of life could have once existed, or might still exist, on other planets. But finding traces of past or current lifeforms on other worlds is challenging. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Analytical Chemistry have developed a fully automated microchip electrophoresis analyzer that, when incorporated into a planetary rover, could someday detect organic biosignatures in extraterrestrial

The scientists developed nanoscale copper wires with specially shaped surfaces to catalyze a chemical reaction that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while generating ethylene -- a valuable chemical simultaneously.

Utilizing the customized deep ultraviolet laser ionization mass spectrometry (DUV-LIMS) technique which takes advantage of efficient photoionization for neutral metal clusters, the authors observe the reaction of cobalt clusters with oxygen and find a stable Co13O8 cluster. Theoretical calculations reveal the global lowest energy structure with a unique cubic structure akin to perovskite, named as 'metalloxocubes'.

Venus should be a priority for future visits, but not because of the surprising discovery of biomarker in its atmosphere this week.

Guest “The truth is out there” by David Middleton Phosphine gas found in Venus atmosphere may be a possible sign of lifeAstronomers detected signs of a smelly, toxic gas that microbe

Guided by the induced-fit mechanism, guest-templated synthesis offers an important route toward otherwise inaccessible complicated host-guest complexes. In this case, guest molecules with specific sizes, shapes and electrostatic interactions are usually added to the system from the beginning to drive the formation of the new complementary complexes.

https://youtu.be/SBM8bta9Zz0 Understanding the Suns behavior is an important part of life in our solar system. Scientists use several indicators to track solar cycle progress. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to

This is the 25th Solar Cycle that has commenced after the Sun reached its solar minimum, which many believe can lead to bleak and cold weather on the Earth.

The astrophysicist who studied auroras and prevailed against prejudice was 93

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What if a solar flare actually sank the Titanic? That's what this new study suggests. Here's the evidence.

Experts says the suns next decade will likely feature a low number of events like solar flares that can disrupt power grids and satellites

New CME forecasting method shows value of including imaging cameras on future NASA missions. Solar storm analysis carried out by an army of citizen scientists has helped researchers devise a new and more accurate way of forecasting when Earth will be hit by harmful space weather. Scientists at the

Scientists predict that the upcoming solar cycle will be calm, as was the previous one. Fewer solar storms and less material flowing out from the Sun toward the Earth and Moon is advantageous for space exploration. The Sun operates on an 11-year cycle between high and low activity.

NASA and NOAA announced the beginning of Solar Cycle 25, and their joint efforts to better predict space weather.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, commonly known as NASA, has announced that the sun has officially entered a new solar cycle. According to a press release on its website, the agency ...

Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to the base of a tower that soars 150 feet above the ground. Tucked in the San Gabriel Mountains, about an hour's drive north from Los Angeles, the Mount Wilson Observatory has long been a home for space scienceit's Padilla's home too, one of the perks to his work as Mount Wilson's sun observer. Mount Wilson has several solar system sentinels; the telescope perched at the top of this tower keeps constant watch on the sun. O

Solar cycles have implications for life and technology on Earth as well as astronauts in space. Solar activity varied with the stages of the solar cycle, which lasts on average for a period of 11 years.

From giving AI some consciousness to millimeter-sized paintings made of light, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

A new study has developed an innovative method to detect colliding supermassive black holes in our Universe. The study has just been published in the Astrophysical Journal and was led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)

A team of scientists now suggests black holes could reach what they call "stupendously large" sizes, each harboring the mass of 100 billion suns or more.

Researchers could detect more mergers of black holes and neutron stars with plans for a new flagship gravitational wave observatory in Europe moving a step closer.

What is an astrophysicist to do during a pandemic, except maybe daydream about having a private black hole?Although it is probably wishful thinking, some astronomers contend that a black hole may be lurking in our solar system. They have been arguing over how to find it, if it is there, and what to do

The detection of gravitational waves could explain how our universe began when another one ended.

This is the first time such a large catalogue of GRGs has been made. Using this catalogue, several properties of GRGs have been studied, which has increased understanding of such objects manifold, Dabhade said.

Astrophysicists have recently begun hatching plans to find out just how weird Planet Nine might be.

A team of researchers from Germany, Italy and Hungary has tested a theory that suggests gravity is the force behind quantum collapse and has found no evidence to support it. In their paper published in the journal Nature Physics, the researchers describe underground experiments they conducted to test the impact of gravity on wave functions and what their work showed them. Myungshik Kim, with Imperial College London has published a News & Views piece in the same issue, outlining the work by t

In a new study, researchers have developed an innovative method to detect colliding supermassive black holes. The study has just been published in the Astrophysical Journal and was led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Monash University.

A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black hole and any other celestial object would be.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration recently announced the discovery of GW190521, the most massive gravitational wave binary observed to date, and Rochester Institute of Technology scientists played an important role in identifying and analyzing the event.

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Kings College London cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for integrated circuits. The approach, reported in a recent paper in Nanophotonics, enables coherent light source design on

Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a "synthetic" Lorentz force which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis. A team of theoretical physicists from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to create t

Engineers at MIT, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, have devised a way to build a camera lens that avoids the typical spherical curve of ultra-wide-angle glass, while still providing true optical fisheye distortion. The fisheye lens is relatively specialist, producing images that can cover as wide an area as 180 degrees […]

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has developed a unique superconducting hot electron bolometer mixer (HEBM) using magnetic materials. The 2 THz band HEBM produced this time has a low noise performance of about 570 K (DSB), which is about 6 times the quantum noise limit, and a wide IF band characteristic of about 6.9 GHz, which is about 3 GHz larger than the conventional structure HEBM. Both of these are world-class performance.

A semiconductor device that is promising for both generating and detecting terahertz radiation has been demonstrated by physicists at RIKEN. This may aid the development of high-performance integrated solutions for terahertz imaging and sensing applications as well as for high-speed, next-generation wireless communications systems.

EPFL physicists propose a new path to detect infrared radiation with outstanding sensitivity, allowing detection of signals as low as that of a single quantum of light.

To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lensesultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce wide, bubble-like images. Their spherical, multipiece design makes fisheye lenses inherently bulky and often costly to produce.

Researchers cleared the obstacle that had prevented the creation of electrically driven nanolasers for integrated circuits. The approach enables coherent light source design on the scale not only hundreds of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair but even smaller than the wavelength of light emitted by the laser. This lays the foundation for ultrafast optical data transfer in the manycore microprocessors expected to emerge in the near future.

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Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a ''synthetic'' Lorentz force -- which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis.

Scientists Excite Magnons in Nanostructures With Laser Pulses Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth iron garnet

Perhaps you've seen the photos of the eerie red skies over San Francisco and other cities in the U.S. West this week as massive ongoing wildfires rage. But why red exactly?