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Biochemistry Jan 25, 2024

Teaching nature to break man-made chemical bonds

For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn man-made bonds between silicon and carbon that exist in widely-used chemicals known as siloxanes, or silicones. The discovery is a first step ...

Quantum Physics Jan 25, 2024

Shaping the dawn of the quantum age

Electrons that spin to the right and the left at the same time. Particles that change their states together, even though they are separated by enormous distances. Intriguing phenomena like these are completely commonplace ...

Economics & Business Jan 25, 2024

In Silicon Valley, human capital trumps intellectual capital

Job postings are a key tool for attracting qualified tech workers. However, companies face a dilemma: On the one hand, they want to provide enough information to attract the right candidates; on the other hand, they want ...

Astronomy Jan 24, 2024

Microwave detectors and multiplexing: Researchers help astronomers examine the early universe

Perched atop a high plateau in Chile's Atacama Desert, a long-awaited observatory is beginning to take shape: the largest suite of ground-based telescopes devoted to studying the oldest light in the universe: radiation left ...

Plasma Physics Jan 24, 2024

New design improves water decontamination via plasma jet

Plasma is an ionized gas—that is, a gas containing electrons, ions, atoms, molecules, radicals, and photons. It is often called the fourth state of matter, and surprisingly, it permeates everything. Plasmas, which are artificially ...

Nanophysics Jan 24, 2024

Sub-wavelength confinement of light demonstrated in indium phosphide nanocavity

As we transition to a new era in computing, there is a need for new devices that integrate electronic and photonic functionalities at the nanoscale while enhancing the interaction between photons and electrons. In an important ...

Nanomaterials Jan 24, 2024

Hacking DNA to make next-gen semiconductor materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University have developed a universal method for producing a wide variety of designed metallic and semiconductor ...

Astrobiology Jan 23, 2024

Life on Earth uses water as a solvent. What are some other options for life as we don't know it?

There is a vast menagerie of potentially habitable worlds in the cosmos, which means the universe could be home to a diversity of life beyond what we can imagine. Creatures built on silicon rather than carbon, or organisms ...

Nanomaterials Jan 22, 2024

Innovative membrane platform enables analysis 'down to a handful of gas atoms'

Northwestern University researchers have developed a novel method to host gas molecules as they are being analyzed in real time, using honeycomb structures found in nature as inspiration for an ultra-thin ceramic membrane ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 18, 2024

New method for integrating electro-optic heterointerfaces in MIS structures for plasmonic waveguide modulation

Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Dr. Amr S. Helmy, have developed a new method for integrating electro-optic SiO2/ITO heterointerfaces into metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) structures. This breakthrough ...

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