Matter & Energy News
November 20, 2024
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Nov. 12, 2024 — Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new ...
Nov. 6, 2024 — Thin, flexible device could help people with visual impairments 'feel' surroundings. Device comprises a hexagonal array of 19 actuators encapsulated in soft silicone. Device only uses energy when actuators change position, operating for longer ...
Oct. 23, 2024 — In the face of rising CO2 levels, scientists are searching for sustainable ways of pulling carbon dioxide out of the air, so-called direct air capture. A new type of porous material, a covalent organic framework (COF) with attached amines, stands ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel training protocol for brain-computer interfaces in a study with rhesus monkeys. The method enables precise control of prosthetic hands using signals from the brain alone. Researchers were able to show that the ...
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Nov. 20, 2024 — A re-engineered wearable ultrasound patch for continuous and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring has undergone comprehensive clinical validation on ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more copper than healthy cells for growth -- a possible new point of attack for ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed. ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Asking children 'What does a scientist look like?' now results in more illustrations of women and people of color than decades ago. But do generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools also depict ...
Nov. 20, 2024 — Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an alternative fuel using electricity from ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Surfaces play a key role in numerous chemical reactions, including catalysis and corrosion. Understanding the atomic structure of the surface of a functional material is essential for both engineers ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The airflow from an indoor badminton court's HVAC system and cross ventilation can affect the path of a birdie and have a significant role in play, but new research proposes that different roof ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal emotional expressions by comparing expressive interjections, such as 'wow,' to ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Houses for sale in a flood zone are around 10% cheaper than surrounding areas, according to new research. However, the reduced price tag is not worth the extra risk and can burden buyers with ...
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Nov. 19, 2024 — A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — It is the computational processing of images that reveals the finest details of a sample placed under all kinds of different light microscopes. Even though this processing has come a long way, there ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — An international team has identified a strategy to improve both the performance and stability for solar cells made out of the 'miracle material' perovskite by mitigating a previously hidden ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — New cathode materials are being developed to further increase the capacity of lithium batteries. Multilayer lithium-rich transition metal oxides (LRTMOs) offer particularly high energy density. ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new crystalline material that can harvest water from fog without any energy input. The design of the novel type of smart crystals, which the researchers named Janus ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Scientists find that most of the microplastics and the 'forever chemicals' known as PFAS cycle through landfills and wastewater treatment plants and end up back in the ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new bio-inspired approach to building complex 3D microfluidic networks by utilizing plant roots and fungal hyphae as molds. The team grew plants and fungi in ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers employ machine learning to more accurately model the boundary layer wind field of tropical cyclones. Conventional approaches to storm forecasting involve large numerical simulations run ...
Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers study how Champatis roll and bounce down inclines. The authors released a heap of the seeds down an inclined plane while a camera recorded their descent to analyze their speed and the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have introduced a technique for compressing a large language model's reams of data, which could increase privacy, save energy and lower costs. The new algorithm works by trimming ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Using zero liquid discharge to increase water recovery from desalination is an emerging method to combat water scarcity, but is expensive, energy-intensive and comes with environmental risks. ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have used machine learning and supercomputer simulations to investigate how tiny gold nanoparticles bind to blood proteins. The studies discovered that favorable nanoparticle-protein ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Alongside carbon dioxide, methane is a key driver of global warming. To detect and monitor the climate pollutants in the atmosphere precisely, scientists have developed an advanced laser technology. ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Humans and animals move with remarkable economy without consciously thinking about it by utilizing the natural oscillation patterns of their bodies. A new tool can now utilize this knowledge for the ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags, a ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new class of oral painkillers to suppress chronic abdominal pain that is based on the peptide hormone oxytocin that drives childbirth ...
Nov. 16, 2024 — Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances -- opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other ...
Nov. 15, 2024 — Scientists have created a new 'biocooperative' material based on blood, which has shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalised regenerative blood products that could ...
Nov. 15, 2024 — A sprinkling of magnetic nanoparticles is just enough to power up catalysts, so they can make hydrogen peroxide production more ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- New Theory Reveals the Shape of a Single Photon
- Next Step in Light Microscopy Image Improvement
- Perovskite Research Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency and Product Life
- New Method of Generating Eco-Friendly Energy
- Battery Research With X-Ray Microscope
- Researchers Develop Crystals to Harvest Water from Air, Inspired by Desert Life
- Study Tracks PFAS, Microplastics Through Landfills and Wastewater Treatment Plants
- Building Roots in Glass, a Bio-Inspired Approach to Creating 3D Microvascular Networks Using Plants and Fungi
- Improving Hurricane Modeling With Physics-Informed Machine Learning
- Sliding Seeds Can Provide Insight Into Devastating Landslides and Rock Avalanches
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Leaner Large Language Models Could Enable Efficient Local Use on Phones and Laptops
- Modeling and Analysis Reveals Technological, Environmental Challenges to Increasing Water Recovery from Desalination
- Machine Learning and Supercomputer Simulations Help Researchers to Predict Interactions Between Gold Nanoparticles and Blood Proteins
- Ytterbium Thin-Disk Lasers Pave the Way for Sensitive Detection of Atmospheric Pollutants
- Effortless Robot Movements
- Plastic Bag Bans Have Lingering Impacts, Even After Repeals
- New Oral Drug to Calm Abdominal Pain
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Friday, November 15, 2024
- Scientists Transform Blood Into Regenerative Materials, Paving the Way for Personalized, Blood-Based, 3D-Printed Implants
- Novel Magnetic Field Integration Enhances Green Hydrogen Peroxide Production
- Biodiversity in the City: Designing Urban Spaces for Humans and Animals
- New Route to 'quantum Spin Liquid' Materials Discovered
- Material Developed With Novel Stretching Properties
- Recycling Batteries With Citric Acid
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- Deciphering the Anomalous Properties of Water
- Novel Electro-Biodiesel a More Efficient, Cleaner Alternative to Existing Alternatives
- AI Headphones Create a 'sound Bubble,' Quieting All Sounds More Than a Few Feet Away
- Scientists Use Math to Predict Crystal Structure in Hours Instead of Months
- Four Global Policies Could Eliminate More Than 90% of Plastic Waste and 30% of Linked Carbon Emissions by 2050
- Breakthrough in Capturing 'hot' CO2 from Industrial Exhaust
- Scientists Discover Laser Light Can Cast a Shadow
- Deep Learning Streamlines Identification of 2D Materials
- Robotic Shorts Support People When Walking
- Long-Sought Measurement of Exotic Beta Decay in Thallium Helps Extract the Timescale of the Sun's Birth
- Wave-Predicting Robots Could Cut Green Energy Costs
- Scientists Find a New Way of Entangling Light and Sound
- Transforming Anion Exchange Membranes in Water Electrolysis for Green Hydrogen Production
- 'Cool' White Car Headlights More Likely to Dazzle Moths
- When Is a Hole Not a Hole? Researchers Investigate the Mystery of 'latent Pores'
- Sensitive Ceramics for Soft Robotics
- NeuroMechFly V2: Simulating How Fruit Flies See, Smell, and Navigate
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
- 'Game Changer' In Lithium Extraction: Researchers Develop Novel Electrochemical Reactor
- Plugged Wells and Reduced Injection Lower Induced Earthquake Rates in Oklahoma, Study Finds
- New Model System for the Development of Potential Active Substances Used in Condensate Modifying Drugs
- Engineers Make Converting CO2 Into Useful Products More Practical
- An Advance Toward Inhalable mRNA Medications, Vaccines
- A Step Toward Safer X-Rays With New Detector Technology
- On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist
- Research Reveals Unseen Factors Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation
- Anti-Fatberg Invention Could Help Unclog City Sewers
- How 'clean' Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be?
- Robot Identifies Plants by 'touching' Their Leaves
- New Route to Fluorochemicals: Fluorspar Activated in Water Under Mild Conditions
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
- Bioluminescent Proteins Made from Scratch Enable Non-Invasive, Multi-Functional Biological Imaging
- Earliest Ancient Maya Salt Works Excavated
- In Step Forward for Quantum Computing Hardware, Physicist Uncovers Novel Behavior in Quantum-Driven Superconductors
- Lab-Grown Human Immune System Uncovers Weakened Response in Cancer Patients
- Synthetic Cells Emulate Natural Cellular Communication
- Giving Robots Superhuman Vision Using Radio Signals
- In Unity Towards Complex Structures
- Blood Vessel-Like Coating Could Make Medical Devices Safer for Patients
- Breakthrough in Photonic Time Crystals Could Change How We Use and Control Light
- Researchers Develop Nanofiber Patch for Treatment of Psoriasis
- Machine Learning Predicts Highest-Risk Groundwater Sites to Improve Water Quality Monitoring
- Using CRISPR to Decipher Whether Gene Variants Lead to Cancer
- Novel Machine Learning Techniques Measure Ocean Oxygen Loss More Accurately
- New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions
- Study Show the Effectiveness of a Portable EKG Patch
Monday, November 11, 2024
- Fighting Microplastics for a Cleaner Future
- Storm in a Laser Beam: Physicists Create 'light Hurricanes' That Could Transport Huge Amounts of Data
- Research Team Successfully Produces Microbial Plastic to Replace PET Bottles
- Einstein's Equations Collide With the Mysteries of the Universe
- Fermium Studied at GSI/FAIR: Researchers Investigate Nuclear Properties of Element 100 With Laser Light
- Robot That Watched Surgery Videos Performs With Skill of Human Doctor, Researchers Report
- Carpet Fibers Stop Concrete Cracking
- Carbon Recycling Instead of Plastic Trash
- Two Hundred Times Better Catalysts Thanks to Carbon
- Discovery Taps 'hot Carriers' For on-Demand, Emissions-Free Hydrogen and Catalyst Regeneration
- Compact Error Correction: Towards a More Efficient Quantum 'hard Drive'
- A New Paradigm in High-Speed Photoacoustic Small Animal Whole-Body Imaging
- The Refrigerator as a Harbinger of a Better Life
Friday, November 8, 2024
- Researchers Are Making Jet Engines Fit for the Hydrogen Age
- Nanotechnology: Flexible Biosensors With Modular Design
- New Material to Make Next Generation of Electronics Faster and More Efficient
- Chalk-Coated Textiles Cool in Urban Environments
- Researchers Drive Solid-State Innovation for Renewable Energy Storage
Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Chemists Showcase Power of Pathbreaking Method to Make Complex Molecules
- Researchers Develop Robotic Sensory Cilia That Monitor Internal Biomarkers to Detect and Assess Airway Diseases
- Researchers Drive Solid-State Innovation for Renewable Energy Storage
- Physics With a Twist: New Findings on Graphene
- Robot Learns How to Clean a Washbasin
- How to Improve and Accelerate Testing of Chemicals
- PFAS Removal Process Aims to Stamp out Pollution Ahead of Semiconductor Industry Growth
- Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes
- Study Identifies Hip Implant Materials With the Lowest Risk of Needing Revision
- Plastic Device Aids Robot-Assisted Heart Surgery
- GPS System for Microorganisms Could Revolutionize Police Work
- Off-the-Shelf Thermoelectric Generators Can Upgrade CO2 Into Chemicals: The Combination Could Help Us Colonize Mars
- Microplastics Impact Cloud Formation, Likely Affecting Weather and Climate