Physics : Science World Report

Mar 14, 2024 09:41 PM EDT

Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Junior Challenge Announces 2023 Winner

Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Junior Challenge has named its 2023 winner: 17-year-old Sia Godika from India. Godika won the ninth annual science competition for teenagers with her video about Yamanaka factors. She has earned prizes worth a total of $400,000 for herself, her science teacher, and her sch...

Aug 13, 2019 04:38 AM EDT

Research Shows Human Cells Assembling Into Fractal-Like Clusters

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Tree-like branching structures are everywhere in the human body, from the bronchial system in the lungs to the spidering capillaries that supply blood to the extremities. Researchers have long worked to understand the cellular signaling needed to build these in...

Aug 12, 2019 02:51 AM EDT

Rice Chemists Show It's Hip to Be Square

The nitrogens are the point. The squares are the frames that carry them. These molecules are called azetidines, and they can be used as building blocks in drug design.

Aug 06, 2019 04:30 AM EDT

Rice Lab Produces Simple Fluorescent Surfactants

HOUSTON - (Aug. 5, 2019) - Laboratories use surfactants to separate things, and fluorescent dyes to see things. Rice University chemists have combined the two to simplify life for scientists everywhere.

Jun 27, 2019 07:58 AM EDT

Building a Bridge to the Quantum World

Entanglement is one of the main principles of quantum mechanics. Physicists from Professor Johannes Fink's research group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have found a way to use a mechanical oscillator to produce entangled radiation. This method, which the authors pu...

Jun 01, 2019 05:11 PM EDT

Physicists Create Stable, Strongly Magnetized Plasma Jet in Laboratory

When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam of ultra-hot atomic particles. Studying plasma in the stars and various forms in outer space requires a telescope, but scientists can recreate it in the laboratory to examine it more closely.

May 22, 2019 09:51 AM EDT

Newly Discovered Hybrid Molecules Could Serve as a Novel Category of Anti-cancer Agent

Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) chemistry program and colleagues from the University's biology program have developed and studied the biological activity of five new, metal-organic hybrid knotted molecules, termed metal-organic trefoil knots (M-TKs). These molecules can effectively deliver ...