7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1250+ words) Bird feathers’ coloration stems from a combination of pigmentation and microstructural optical effects functioning at spatial scales ranging from whole barbs down to individual barbules just a handful of microns across. Characterizing these microscopic structures’ spectral reflectance necessitates the use…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (624+ words) A new purple cooling fabric developed by Chinese and Australian researchers could help people stay cooler during scorching summer days without having to resort to wearing white. The high-tech fabric has been shown to stay up to 6.2 °C cooler than…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (156+ words) The stories of Nathalie Blanchard and Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard carry a message that goes beyond professional achievement. Both are women who have built outstanding careers in a highly technical field – and both are actively working to open doors for the next…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (256+ words) The study examines whether elemental mixing can produce neutronic cocktail effects. These effects occur when a material’s neutron-attenuation behavior differs from that expected from its individual elements. The effect is particularly important in nuclear systems, where controlling neutron transport is…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (183+ words) Biomanufacturing uses biological systems to produce chemicals or materials. For example, scientists use microbes' ability to ferment alcohol to develop bio-based fuels. In advanced aviation fuels, new formulas could have better performance and efficiency than current ones. One potential high-performance…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (218+ words) AZoM The 508PV™ integrates seamlessly with standard optical microscopes, adding advanced spectroscopic measurements to complement imaging in biological, medical, and pharmaceutical laboratories With its updated hardware and software, the 508PV™ is ideally suited for: Protein & Nucleic Acid Research - Detecting subtle UV absorbance…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (667+ words) Forge Nano Breaks Ground on a major expansion of its lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina, as part of its U.S. battery manufacturing platform and in partnership with Samsung SDI. The expansion will transform Forge Nano's existing 100,000-square-foot Morrisville…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (377+ words) A decades-long collaboration between two Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists is reshaping how we understand learning. Their findings suggest that cellular membranes play a direct role in how memory and learning form in the brain. This work…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (280+ words) By redesigning the plasticizer as part of the end-of-life chemistry, researchers created a polymer system that links flexibility during use with an entirely different role after disposal. Paper: Plastics to fertilizer: A polymer system based on isosorbide as a monomer,…...

6+ day, 24+ min ago   (554+ words) The University of Surrey team focused on nanostructured sodium vanadate hydrate (NaV3O8.xH2O or NVOH), a layered material capable of storing sodium ions. Structural water sits in the lattice and widens vanadium-oxide layers, creating larger channels that allow sodium ions to move…...