Specialty Chemicals Executive Julie Vaughn Biege Joins The ChemQuest Group as Director
Vaughn Biege joins ChemQuest bringing decades of experience in the specialty chemical industry.
Read MoreNASA Student Business Competition Gets Boost by White House Initiative
NASA’s Minority University Education and Research Program (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC), a Shark Tank-style competition for students at minority-serving institutions, is officially included in the 2022 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) Scholar Recognition Program.
Read MoreHubble Investigates an Enigmatic Star Cluster
Unlike most globular clusters, Ruprecht 106 may be what astronomers call a single population globular cluster.
Read MoreUnique molecular CODE: Paramagnetic encoding of molecules
Today we commonly encounter contactless RFID chips in a number of products, but can similar technology be implemented at the molecular level? The answer is yes. The principle of molecular encoding conceived by Miloslav Polášek and his team at IOCB Prague represents a novel method on the frontier of chemistry and modern technologies. Their paper […]
Read MoreElectron-phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots
Carbon dots (CDs) are new carbon-based photoluminescence (PL) nanomaterials with a core-shell motif. Due to their fascinating advantages, such as chemical inertness, high quantum yields (QYs), high water solubility, thermal stability, and excellent biocompatibility, CDs have attracted extensive attention in various research applications, such as cancer diagnosis, phototherapy, and optoelectronic devices. However, the underlying PL […]
Read MoreNovel fluorescent organohydrogel proposed to achieve dual information encryption
The Smart Polymer Materials Group led by Prof. Chen Tao at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a novel fluorescent organohydrogel with shape-memory ability, which could achieve photo-writing/photo-erasing and dual encryption of fluorescent information. This study was published in Advanced Optical Materials.
Read MoreLong Covid, Long Other Things
I wrote here about a recent effort to profile “long Covid” patients to look for differences in blood chemistry, immune function, and many more biomarkers. That study came up notably blank: the authors could find no difference between people reporting such symptoms and those who didn’t. And while that’s of great interest, it’s not going […]
Read MoreSamples of the asteroid Ryugu are scientists’ purest pieces of the solar system
Samples of the asteroid Ryugu are the most pristine pieces of the solar system that scientists have in their possession. A new analysis of Ryugu material confirms the porous rubble-pile asteroid is rich in carbon and finds it is extraordinarily primitive (SN: 3/16/20). It is also a member of a rare class of space rocks […]
Read MoreQuantum physics exponentially improves some types of machine learning
Machine learning can get a boost from quantum physics. On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, scientists report in the June 10 Science. The researchers proved that, according to quantum math, the advantage applies when using machine learning to understand quantum systems. And the team showed […]
Read MoreWreck of historic royal ship discovered off the English coast
A royal shipwreck has been discovered off the English coast. The wreck is of one of the most famous ships of the 17th century — The Gloucester — which sank 340 years ago while carrying the future King of England, James Stuart. Since running aground on a sandbank on May 6, 1682, the wreck has […]
Read MoreLearning and remembering movement
Researchers examining the brain at a single-neuron level found that computation happens not just in the interaction between neurons, but within each individual neuron. Each of these cells, it turns out, is not a simple switch, but a complicated calculating machine. This discovery promises changes not only to our understanding of how the brain works, […]
Read MoreCarbon is on the minds of chemical executives
CEOs at annual meeting say they can thread the needle between growth, decarbonization
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