The Face of Change: British Man with the Smallest Carbon Footprint

CHEMISTRY 05.21.2019 07:35 AM

British man tedious enough to solve his carbon footprint to fight climate change In a world where the new car, new dress, and a cool profile picture seems to define your world, who can imagine that there is a man that sees and nurture one of the most important gifts to humankind.

Scientists Develop Non-Addictive Pain Reliever

05.17.2019 08:56 AM

Study reveals DAGL-beta inhibitors that have the potential to be addiction-free pain relievers University of Virginia chemists developed a non-addictive chronic pain treatment.

Arterial Bleeding Stopped Through a Hydrogel

05.17.2019 08:34 AM

Wound treatment possible through a hydrogel Collaborators from various institutions in China developed a hydrogel that can stop uncontrolled bleeding from a punctured artery.

Scientists Unlock Complex Mixture Principle in Physics by Studying Chocolate Production

05.14.2019 10:28 AM

New study suggests that conching may alter the physical properties of granulated ingredients in the chocolate.

Do You Need Help Choosing A Ripe Watermelon? Listen to Nigerian Music

05.14.2019 10:15 AM

The sound around us influences everyday experiences, even decision-making If you want to know whether a watermelon is ripe or not, the quickest way to know is by tapping on it.

The Hottest Known Exoplanet Has Rare-Earth Metals

05.14.2019 07:41 AM

Scientists have recently detected traces of evaporated sodium, magnesium, chromium, and the rare-Earth metals scandium and yttrium on one exoplanet.

Emitting Radiation Carbon From Nuclear Bomb Tests Found in Deep Ocean Channels

05.13.2019 17:56 PM

Organisms at the ocean surface have incorporated this "bomb carbon" into the molecules that structure their bodies since the late Fifties.

Enhanced Microring Sensors for Optical Applications

05.12.2019 20:14 PM

Recent attempts enhance the interaction between light and the molecule to be detected One of the essential applications of light science is optical sensing.

Trace Amounts of Homemade Bombs Detectable Through New Method

05.11.2019 17:51 PM

Scientists develop a new method in tracing homemade bombs. Collaborators from King's College London and Northumbria University developed a new method of tracing homemade explosives.

Plant Sugars Used as Raw Material for Plastics Chemical

05.11.2019 14:31 PM

Study shows that fructose can be a source of HMF Collaborators from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an efficient and economically-feasible manner of producing HMF or 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, a chemical derived from plants that could help solve in the transition from a fossil-based economy towards an environmentally-friendly bio-based economy.

Water-in-Salt Batteries Discovered To Have Better Capacity Than Conventional Ones

05.11.2019 09:41 AM

Study shows an improved and safer battery University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers developed an approach that improved the capacity of batteries to have high energy through enhancing their water-in-salt battery with a new kind of chemical transformation of the cathode that results in a reversible solid salt layer.

Superionic Ice: The Hottest Ice to Be Invented By Scientists

05.10.2019 08:51 AM

Scientists create an extraordinary, alien form of super hot ice. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have created an extremely bizarre form of "superionic ice" which they have also dubbed as "ice XVIII".

Substrate Defect Crucial for Growth of 2D Materials

05.09.2019 13:12 PM

Researchers showed that if the TMDs are grown on a surface of hexagonal boron nitride, 85 percent or more will point in the same direction

Scientist Trap CO2 in Stone to Help Clean Air of Harmful Emissions in Iceland

05.09.2019 10:03 AM

A new method has been devised to speed up the process of petrifying carbon dioxide. In Iceland, scientists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock, cleaning the air of harmful emissions that cause global warming.

Simple Efficient Way of Removing Salt From Water Discovered

05.08.2019 15:38 PM

The technology could have massive implications for the future of our drinking water. There will come a time when drinking water will be more valuable than gold.