Trace Amounts of Homemade Bombs Detectable Through New Method

CHEMISTRY 05.11.2019 17:51 PM

Scientists develop a new method in tracing homemade bombs. Collaborators from King's College London and Northumbria University developed a new method of tracing homemade explosives.

Plant Sugars Used as Raw Material for Plastics Chemical

05.11.2019 14:31 PM

Study shows that fructose can be a source of HMF Collaborators from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an efficient and economically-feasible manner of producing HMF or 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, a chemical derived from plants that could help solve in the transition from a fossil-based economy towards an environmentally-friendly bio-based economy.

Water-in-Salt Batteries Discovered To Have Better Capacity Than Conventional Ones

05.11.2019 09:41 AM

Study shows an improved and safer battery University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers developed an approach that improved the capacity of batteries to have high energy through enhancing their water-in-salt battery with a new kind of chemical transformation of the cathode that results in a reversible solid salt layer.

Superionic Ice: The Hottest Ice to Be Invented By Scientists

05.10.2019 08:51 AM

Scientists create an extraordinary, alien form of super hot ice. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have created an extremely bizarre form of "superionic ice" which they have also dubbed as "ice XVIII".

Substrate Defect Crucial for Growth of 2D Materials

05.09.2019 13:12 PM

Researchers showed that if the TMDs are grown on a surface of hexagonal boron nitride, 85 percent or more will point in the same direction

Scientist Trap CO2 in Stone to Help Clean Air of Harmful Emissions in Iceland

05.09.2019 10:03 AM

A new method has been devised to speed up the process of petrifying carbon dioxide. In Iceland, scientists are transforming carbon dioxide into rock, cleaning the air of harmful emissions that cause global warming.

Simple Efficient Way of Removing Salt From Water Discovered

05.08.2019 15:38 PM

The technology could have massive implications for the future of our drinking water. There will come a time when drinking water will be more valuable than gold.

When Sand Behaves Like Oil

05.08.2019 15:09 PM

A complex interaction occurs between the two materials Parts of the examples of granular materials are rice, sand, and coffee. The conduct of granular substances plays a vital function in various natural processes, such as avalanches and the motion of sand dunes, but they are also essential in the industry.

Milk Spoiler Alert: Sensor Capable of Detecting Milk Spoilage

05.08.2019 08:57 AM

Study reveals a sensor is capable of detecting whether milk is fresh or not Washington State University scientists developed a new sensor technology that could detect if a box of milk is still good or has gone bad.

Ancient Shamanic Pouch is Found with Traces of Cocaine and Psychedelics

05.08.2019 08:38 AM

The largest number of psychoactive substances ever found in a single archaeological collection from South America.

A New Type of Quasiparticle Discovered

05.07.2019 11:41 AM

The researchers were the first to see Rarita-Schwinger fermions Paul Scherrer Institute's researchers have discovered a new kind of quasiparticle.

Rice Husks Can Effectively Remove Microcystin from Water

05.06.2019 10:06 AM

The rice husks removed more than 95 percent of microcystin MC-LR, the most common type found in Lake Erie, in concentrations of up to 596 parts-per-billion (ppb)

Cultivating Defective Porous Materials for Robust and Selective Heterogeneous Catalysis

05.06.2019 08:08 AM

It opens new avenues to develop robust heterogeneous catalysts for a wide variety of gas-phase reactions

Alzheimer’s Disease May Now Be Detected Years Before Symptoms Arise

05.06.2019 08:06 AM

A new two-step diagnosis process may help detect Alzheimer’s disease. A new two-step diagnostic process is maintaining to firmly detect Alzheimer's disease nearly 10 years before clinical symptoms appear.

Hempcrete Researchers Receive Grant from the EPA

05.05.2019 22:20 PM

Hemp’s potential in sustainable construction has won some California researchers a grant from the EPA.