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Telescope to be launched to observe Crab Nebula

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

Soon, a telescope designed and built at KTH will be launched into the stratosphere, carried aloft by a 150-diameter helium balloon about 40km above Earth. This is an effort to observe the small pulsar at the center of the spectacular Crab…

Medical

‘Muscles-on-a-chip’ used to study human muscle development

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

A process to develop bigger and stronger muscle fibers has been devised by USC Researcher Megan L. McCain. But instead of popping up on the bicep of a bodybuilder, these muscles grow on a tiny scaffold or 'chip' molded from a type of…

Power

MFC system eliminates need for external power

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

A proof-of-concept 3D paper-based microbial fuel cell (MFC) that could take advantage of capillary action to guide the liquids through the MFC system and to eliminate the need for external power has been demonstrated by a team of…

Power

Nanostructure research leads to high strength energy applications

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

Scientists use a liquid metal technique to selectively remove elements from a block of well-mixed metals and create intricate structures; as liquid metals can be fairly good atom thieves. However, researchers didn't know how the technique…

Energy

Magnetism controlled at low current through spintronics

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

A device capable of controlling magnetism at a lower current level than conventional spintronics devices has been jointly developed by a research team at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA)…

Medical

Neuron controlling biomaterial is injectable

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

'Fantastic Voyage'; the campy 1966 sci-fi movie where scientists miniaturize a submarine with themselves inside and travel through the body of a colleague to break up a potentially fatal blood clot. Right. Micro-humans aside, imagine the…

Energy

Solar energy storage made affordable

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

Solar panels produce energy intermittently, as the sun's light doesn't hit the same place all day. As a result, solar energy researchers have been trying to store sunlight by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. A solar cell splits…

Featured

Researchers create pesticide and nerve gas detecting electronic nose

Editorial Team Jul 4, 2016

As published in Chemical Science, an international team of researchers led by Ivo Stassen and Rob Ameloot from KU, Leuven, Belgium, have created an electronic nose to detect pesticides and nerve gas. The best-known electronic nose is the…

Medical

LG reveals new flexible pressure sensors for comfortable tech

Editorial Team Jul 1, 2016

LG Innotek has developed of new kind of textile flexible pressure sensor that senses pressure from its entire surface. Pressure sensors are used to measure levels of the external force. By installing them in technology such as…

Featured

Video of the Day: Watch sparklers in slow motion

Editorial Team Jul 1, 2016

Independence Day is upon us here in the United States. That means that people across the country are getting ready to celebrate with fireworks. In honor of the holiday, the American Chemical Society decided to unveil this video, which looks…