New catalyst provides boost to next-generation EV batteries

Metal-air batteries (MABs), which use oxygen from ambient air as recourses to store and convert energy, have received considerable attention for their potential use in electric vehicles (EVs) owing to...

Plaschke: The day sports stopped

Thursday will be forever remembered as the day sports went dark, turning off its lights, nailing plywood over its windows, bolting its doors to the insidious approach of the coronavirus.

Discovery of zero-energy bound states at both ends of a one-dimensional atomic line defect

In recent years, the development of quantum computers beyond the capability of classical computers has become a new frontier in science and technology and a key direction to realize quantum...

Graphene solar heating film offers new opportunity for efficient thermal energy harvesting

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Translational Atomaterials have developed a highly efficient solar absorbing film that absorbs sunlight with minimal heat loss and rapidly heats up to...

Pathways toward realizing the promise of all-solid-state batteries

When it comes to batteries, there are always areas for improvement: the race is on to develop batteries that are cheaper, safer, longer lasting, more energy dense, and easily recyclable. 

Selective capture of ions from wastewater with layered metal sulfide

It is important to develop chemically selective scavengers for ions such as Ba2+, Ni2+, and Co2+ from complex wastewater for environmental remediation and human health. The current natural and synthetic...

Scientists propose new smart luminescent materials of Au(I) double salts

Smart materials especially for the dynamic physical stimuli responsive materials are being widely used. Wavelength-dependent (Ex-De) photoluminescent materials bring great interests to scientists, because their facile, non-invasive emission color tuning...

Initialization of quantum simulators by sympathetic cooling

Simulating computationally complex many-body problems on a quantum simulator has great potential to deliver insights into physical, chemical and biological systems. Physicists had previously implemented Hamiltonian dynamics but the problem...

Method detects new PFAS in the atmosphere

Untargeted capture and analysis turns up previously unobserved airborne PFAS

Nuclear diagnostics help pave way to ignition on NIF inertial confinement fusion

At its peak, a NIF inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosion lasts about 100 trillionths of a second. The imploded fuel is a hundred millionths of a meter in diameter and...

3-D hierarchically porous nanostructured catalyst helps efficiently reduce carbon dioxide

KAIST researchers developed a three-dimensional (3-D) hierarchically porous nanostructured catalyst with carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) conversion rate up to 3.96 times higher than that of conventional nanoporous...

Liquid helium-free SRF cavities could make industrial applications practical

The building blocks of superconducting accelerators are superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities made primarily from niobium that are combined in a vessel and bathed in liquid helium to reach superconducting temperatures....

Modified nickelate materials could improve understanding of high-temperature superconductivity

The hunt for high-temperature superconductors could be aided by calculations by RIKEN physicists that have revealed the behavior of electrons in a nickel oxide material.

Water-free way to make MXenes could mean new uses for the promising nanomaterials

Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called MXenes, Drexel University researchers have discovered a different way to make the atom-thin material...

Breakthrough made towards building the world's most powerful particle accelerator

An international team of researchers has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization cooling of muons.

Level up your PS4 or Xbox One by adding more storage

Storage space can be at a premium no matter what your console. (Nikita Kachanovsky/Unsplash/)When you’re ready for another gaming session, the last message you want to see on your console is that you’re...

Perturbation-free studies of single molecules

Researchers of the University of Basel have developed a new method with which individual isolated molecules can be studied precisely -- without destroying the molecule or even influencing its quantum...

'Spillway' for electrons could keep lithium metal batteries from catching fire

Nanoengineers developed a safety feature that prevents lithium metal batteries from rapidly overheating and catching fire in case of an internal short circuit. The clever tweak does not prevent battery...

Chasing lithium ions on the move in a fast-charging battery

Atomic distortions emerging in the electrode during operation provide a 'fast lane' for the transport of lithium ions.

Erratum for the Report: "An sp-hybridized molecular carbon allotrope, cyclo[18]carbon" by K. Kaiser, L. M. Scriven, F. Schulz, P. Gawel, L. Gross, H. L. Anderson

Enantioselective remote C-H activation directed by a chiral cation

Chiral cations have been used extensively as organocatalysts, but their application to rendering transition metal–catalyzed processes enantioselective remains rare. This is despite the success of the analogous charge-inverted strategy in...

Realization of the kagome spin ice state in a frustrated intermetallic compound

Spin ices are exotic phases of matter characterized by frustrated spins obeying local "ice rules," in analogy with the electric dipoles in water ice. In two dimensions, one can similarly...

Quantum-nondemolition state detection and spectroscopy of single trapped molecules

Trapped atoms and ions, which are among the best-controlled quantum systems, find widespread applications in quantum science. For molecules, a similar degree of control is currently lacking owing to their...

Perturbation-free studies of single molecules

Researchers of the University of Basel have developed a new method with which individual isolated molecules can be studied precisely—without destroying the molecule or even influencing its quantum state. This...

SpaceX's Starship will soon be made of different stuff

SpaceX built its first few Starship prototypes out of a stainless-steel alloy known as 301. But aerospace engineers have been using that particular metallic blend since the middle of the...

Coal power developers 'risk wasting billions'

It is cheaper to build new renewable sources of energy generation than coal plants, a report says.

Look: 'Baby-Sitters Club' assembles in poster for Netflix reboot

Sophie Grace, Malia Baker, Momona Tamada, Shay Rudolph and Xochitl Gomez star in a Netflix adaptation of Ann M. Martin's "Baby-Sitters Club" book series.

Look: 'Queer Eye' begins filming Season 6 in Texas

"Queer Eye" started production in Austin, Texas, after being renewed for a sixth season at Netflix.