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CSIRO Finds Sticky Fingerprints Reveal True Origins of Honey

DNA testing Australian honey can reveal where it was produced and its main floral sources, according to research published today by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and partners at the University of Melbourne and Curtin University.

9 Jun 2021

Researchers Explore Ways to Boost the Lifespan of Lead-Acid Batteries

Energy storage systems (ESS) are generally used in complex and decentralized electrical networks; lead-acid batteries could provide a clean and green alternative to ESS.

8 Jun 2021

Laser Suppresses Magnetic Order Across the Entire Material for Several Picoseconds

What happens when very short pulses of laser light strike a magnetic material- A large international collaboration led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory set out to answer this very question.

8 Jun 2021

George Mason Professor Receives NSF Funding to Advance Understanding of Interface Thermodynamics

Yuri Mishin, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, is working to advance the fundamental understanding of interface thermodynamics and kinetics using atomistic computer modeling.

8 Jun 2021

Construction of Metal-Free Room-Temperature Phosphorescence Films with Near-Infrared Emission

The fluorescence dyes were dominant species of the near-infrared dyes, but the energy gap of the NIR dyes between S1 state and S0 state is generally small to induce the ultrafast internal conversion dynamics to quench the NIR emission of the fluorescence dyes.

8 Jun 2021

Researchers Explore the Requirements for Electric Takeoff and Landing Vehicles

Flying cars, robot maids and jet packs are all promises for the 21st century but instead, people received autonomous, mechanized vacuum cleaners.

8 Jun 2021

New Silicon Holds Implications for Advanced Electronic and Energy Devices

A research team, headed by Thomas Shiell and Timothy Strobel from the Carnegie Institution for Science, has devised a new technique for producing an innovative crystalline form of silicon with a hexagonal structure.

7 Jun 2021

Magnetism can Solely Drive Metal-Insulator Transition

Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying heat and electricity.

7 Jun 2021

Welding Safety at the Forefront of New Research

To create a better understanding of workers’ exposure to welding fumes in Australia, the NSW Government’s Centre for Work Health and Safety is conducting new research.

7 Jun 2021

First Fabric-Fiber Created with Digital Capabilities

MIT researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt.

4 Jun 2021

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