Science

Measurement of Tiny Amounts of Heavy Metals in Baby Food Samples

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Helium 'balloons' offer new path to control complex materials

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Inserting helium atoms (visualized as a red balloon) into a crystalline film (gold) allowed Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers to...

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Building a better semiconductor: Research led by Michigan State University could someday lead to the development of new and improved semiconductors

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MSU researchers have found that by shooting an ultrafast laser pulse into a material, it can change its properties, a process that can lead...

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Green Chemistry Methods Used in Iran to Produce Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

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U.S. Engineers Develop Ballistic Wallpaper

U.S. Troops often use abandoned masonry, brick or cinderblock structures for defensive purposes instead of building their own or digging foxholes.

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Buckle up for fast ionic conduction

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ETH researchers engineered free-standing ceramic membranes for so-called micro energy converters. The strain patterns of these membranes...

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Nanoparticles naturally fall into left- and right-handed versions

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These are levorotatory and dextrorotatory quantum dots with left and right chiral defects.

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A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen

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With a novel hydrogel, sensitive catalysts can be protected from oxygen molecules (red) which could irreversibly damage the catalysts. The...

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