New routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment Photoreactive compounds developed by LMU scientists directly mod... Read more
The Triboelectric Effect As sources of renewable energy, sun and wind have one major disadvantage: it isn’t always sunny or windy. Waves in the ocean, on the other hand, are never... Read more
Boston College chemists produce power boost critical to novel energy harvesting applications Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to... Read more
Compounds found in red wine, green tea stick to anything, retain useful properties A simple kitchen sink experiment helped Northwestern University researchers discover that green t... Read more
Chemical flasks and inconvenient chemostats for cultivation of bacteria are likely soon to be discarded. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy... Read more
A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environm... Read more
A future aim is to try to convert the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the renewable fuel, methanol, much more efficiently. Taking their inspiration from Nature, scientists at... Read more
This has created a powerful and cost-effective new tool to capture and store, or potentially recycle, carbon dioxide. Emissions from coal power stations could be drastically reduce... Read more
Their improved compound removes the bacteria’s antibiotic resistance Researchers from North Carolina State University have increased the potency of a compound that reactivates anti... Read more
This discovery opens up perspectives for a multitude of applications in robotics For the first time, an assembly of thousands of nano-machines capable of producing a coordinated co... Read more
A team of Spanish scientists has developed an intelligent nanodevice that lays the foundations for the future development of new therapies against aging. The device consists of nan... Read more
TAU researcher discovers that a ray of light could lead to the next generation of superconductors A superconductor, which can move electrical energy with no wasteful resistance, is... Read more
“Our biochemiresistor was able to detect enrofloxacin in neat milk in 40 minutes” A whole new class of biosensor that can detect exceptionally small traces of contamina... Read more
This finding has wide implications for future technology Chemists at UCL have discovered a new property of flames, which allows them to control reactions at a solid surface in a fl... Read more
