Osaka University researchers synthesize an easy-to-handle nano-cobalt phosphide catalyst for efficient hydrogenation of nitriles to primary amines Osaka, Japan – The need to be mindful consumers is becoming a priority for an ever-growing portion of society. This means that achieving efficient and environmentally sustainable chemical processes is more important thanContinue Reading
Understanding the character of hardware errors helps stabilise the technology Scientists at the University of Sydney have adapted techniques from autonomous vehicles and robotics to efficiently assess the performance of quantum devices, an important process to help stabilise the emerging technologies. The innovative approach has been shown experimentally to outperformContinue Reading
Bose-Einstein condensates in space could reach temperatures lower than any known in the universe On the International Space Station, astronauts are weightless. Atoms are, too. That weightlessness makes it easier to study a weird quantum state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Now, the first Bose-Einstein condensates made onContinue Reading
Sir Isaac Newton — famous for developing the three laws of motion and advancing calculus — apparently had a far-out idea for how to treat the plague, also called the black death: toad-vomit lozenges. In addition to recommending a number of gemstone amulets against the plague, he gave detailed instructionsContinue Reading
A research team lead by Ryusuke Futamura of Shinshu University investigated the response of magnetic ionic liquids (MIL) to magnetic fields from the microscopic view points. Magnetic fluids, which can respond to magnetic fields, can be made by dispersing ferromagnetic nanoparticles in a solvent. Some pure liquids that are notContinue Reading
Enables researchers to directly visualize unlabeled objects that have deep sub-wavelength separations URBANA, Ill. – New Illinois ECE research is advancing the field of optical microscopy, giving the field a critical new tool to solve challenging problems across many fields of science and engineering including semiconductor wafer inspection, nanoparticle sensing,Continue Reading
Researchers have discovered a single molecule ‘switch’ that can act like a transistor and offers the potential to store binary information Computer hard drives of the future could be made up of smart molecules. Researchers have discovered a single molecule ‘switch’ that can act like a transistor and offers theContinue Reading
Video that went viral on social media showed the monkey thief in a tree A monkey attacked a lab technician on the campus of a medical school in India and ran away with blood samples from three patients infected with COVID-19. The robbed lab technician, meanwhile, took video with hisContinue Reading
(LOS ANGELES) – The interstitial fluid is a major component of the liquid environment in the body and fills the spaces between the body’s cells. In contrast, blood circulates only within the circulatory vessels of the body and is composed of blood cells and the liquid part of the blood,Continue Reading
Valleytronics gives rise to valley current, a stable, dissipationless current which is driven by a pseudo-magnetic field, Berry curvature. This gives rise to valletronics based information processing and storage technology. A pre-requisite for the emergence of Berry curvature is either a broken inversion symmetry or a broken time-reversal symmetry. ThusContinue Reading
