Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine-- the main component of Formica-- chemists have created an affordable, accessible, and energy-efficient form to capture CO2 (Carbon dioxide) from smokestacks, a key aim for the USA and other countries as they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process for synthesizing the melamine material, posted this week in...
Researchers at Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics used the same setup at a recent study to create superionic ice, shown here in this artistic rendering. In that instance, the ice was not stable. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory illustration / Millot, Coppari, Hamel, Krauss. By subjecting a droplet of water to extreme temperatures similar to those...
A new research study examines how getting sufficient sleep affects caloric intake in a real-world setting. Understanding the fundamental causes of obesity and how to stop it is the best means to fight the obesity epidemic, according to Esra Tasali, MD, Director of the UChicago Sleep Center at the University of Chicago Medicine. "The present...
Discovered in 1950, this galaxy is known as Hoag's object, and is the first known instance of a ring galaxy. It's highly unusual, with an elliptical, very red center, a large gap between the nucleus and the outer ring, and the blue, young stars in the outer ring have no identifiable trigger leading to...
University of Queensland researchers have cracked an issue that's frustrated chemists and physicists for many years, potentially causing a new age of effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies Utilizing quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a recipe that enables molecular switches to function at room temperature. "Switches are...
Fig. 1: Schematic view of the 3He+ ion’s external and internal magnetic interactions. Background: microwave radiation. Credit: MPI In joint experimental-theoretical research published in Nature, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), together with collaborators from RIKEN, Japan, investigated the magnetic properties of the isotope helium-3. For the first time, the electronic and...
Nuclear fusion. Credit: The Conversation. The reinforcement learning algorithm, which controls the scorching plasma within a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor, was developed by an AI company backed by Google. The interior of a tokamak– the doughnut-shaped vessel created to include a nuclear fusion reaction– presents a unique type of chaos. Hydrogen atoms are shattered together at...
Credit: EWG. As the most current report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) explains, the 2020s have to be a decade of change. This is necessary to attain the goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is foreseed to play a vital role to cut carbon emissions. Depending on...
An isotope of magnesium has been uncovered with a much shorter half-life than the time it takes to draw in electrons, representing a potential border to chemistry when it involves the graph of nuclides. More significant than 3000 different nuclides-- isotopes of the components-- have been found to day, although only 252 are thought-about secure....
