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Atomic-resolution simulations combined with experiments show sugars' role in shielding the virus and helping it to attack cells

BASF will eliminate 2,000 jobs from a division it created in January

Curly is a robot with a camera arm and wheels that uses AI to assess the best strategy for playing the game of curling – and it beat top-ranked players

People who respond to the placebo effect have proteins in their blood that are linked to controlling inflammation, which may help to explain how a placebo makes us feel better

With wildfires raging, the outlook looks bleak from San Francisco. Thinking about the future in terms of “hope horizons” can help, writes Annalee Newitz

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Researchers show how “slickenlines” trace the directions of ancient quakes

Both approaches have promise but face perils, researchers find

By attacking young trees, emerald ash borer could prevent long-term reproduction

Taking cues from the #BlackInChem movement, <i>Stereo Chemistry</i> asks what's working and what comes next

New finding challenges assumptions about cell movement

It’s still not clear whether quantum chemistry has all the answers

Aromaticity concept can help scientists understand the properties of metal clusters

My friend Alice Sheppard, known on Twitter and elsewhere as @PenguinGalaxy, asked her physics pals to explain why it is that an electron emits photons when it is accelerating/change direction? There were several replies that suggested this has been thought about a lot but nobody could come up with a simple, solid explanation. There was … Continue reading "Why do accelerating electrons emit photons?"

Anti-reflective and anti-adhesive nano-coating that covers the eyes of insects could find uses in medical implants and contact lenses

LoCHAid can be assembled in 30 minutes with cheap parts

In spite of the hype, even inventors of the basic idea say it will never help defeat stealth technology

Tiny bottles with special properties are essential for distribution

The swimmers who do SERS

As these microsized tubes spin through this solution, they help researchers do Raman spectroscopy. The tubes were made in the lab of Teng Qiu of Southeast University in China using three layers: nanotextured gold on the outside, silicon oxide in the middle, and iron on the inner wall. The gold outer shell does the heavy-lifting spectroscopy-wise: it can bind molecules in solution, and because of the textured surface, it can boost the Raman signal the molecules produce... Читать дальше...

Non-innocent ligand and uranium center cooperate to break strong bonds