Human Cells Made Magnetic With Engineered Protein Crystals
If scientists could give living cells magnetic properties, they could perhaps manipulate cellular activities with external magnetic fields. But previous attempts to magnetize cells by…
If scientists could give living cells magnetic properties, they could perhaps manipulate cellular activities with external magnetic fields. But previous attempts to magnetize cells by…
Note: This article and headline were updated on September 29, 2019, to clarify the impact of the research. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden,…
The conductivity of Graphene has made it a target for many researchers seeking to exploit it to create molecular-scale devices and now a research team…
SUNCAT researchers discover a way to improve a key step in these conversions, and explore what it would take to turn the climate-changing gas into…
Nature has evolved a dazzling array of materials that help organisms thrive in diverse habitats. Sometimes, scientists can exploit these designs to develop useful materials…
BigSMILES language allows computers and researchers to convey stochastic configurations more clearly. Having a compact, yet robust, structurally-based identifier or representation system for molecular structures…
A research group led by Tokyo Tech reports a way of constructing DNA-based microcapsules that hold great promise for the development of new functional materials…
Scientists at the University of Groningen have constructed synthetic vesicles in which ATP, the main energy carrier in living cells, is produced. The vesicles use…
Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance. The ability to exploit this gas as a chemical reagent is an attractive prospect, both as…
A new way to convert carbon dioxide into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels was very efficient in tests and did not have the…
A team of scientists from Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and other collaborators have published an article about a new…
A team of researchers from Osaka University, in cooperation with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, directly observed charge transfer and intermolecular interactions in artificial photosynthesis…
Unique experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source shine a light on a new pathway for carbon chemistry to evolve in space. A team of…
Chemistry of plants makes a big difference in how quickly they burn. As fires throughout Utah have demonstrated over the last few weeks, fire season…
Rice University’s ‘green’ invention reduces carbon dioxide into valuable fuels. A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with…
Scientists from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université have recently shown how valuable light-sensitive macromolecules are: when exposed to the right wavelength of light, they can…
Study shows how ferroic materials could be used to create adaptable neuromorphic electronics. A phenomenon that is well known from chaos theory was observed in…
Made with ‘Jenga chemistry,’ the discovery could help crack the mystery of how high-temperature superconductors work. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator…