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Scientists Create Material That Can Shapeshift and Expand 80,000% Using Only Light
4+ hour, 9+ min ago (370+ words) In experiments reported in Nature Communications, the material expanded more than 80,000% within 40 seconds and could be repeatedly programmed into helices, twists, and hybrid structures. Researchers also used its light-controlled motion to lift objects and drive a miniature rotary system, pointing…...
Blast zones identified as Garden Grove chemical tank inches toward explosion
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (594+ words) Fire officials have released a clear and haunting view of what damage could look like if the toxic Garden Grove tank explodes, with its temperature increasing with each passing hour. OCFA Division Chief Nick Freeman said Friday that blast zones…...
This ‘Living’ Plastic Comes With a Built-in Kill Switch
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (317+ words) A team of scientists in China recently demonstrated this somewhat comically idealistic solution, reporting their findings in a recent paper published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. This new “living” plastic, as the team describes it, contains plastic-degrading microbes that activate…...
Why is liquid hydrogen so challenging...?
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (815+ words) James Cobban Space Nerd since 19569h Why is liquid hydrogen so challenging to handle when fueling rockets, and what special techniques are used to prevent leaks? An old joke: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Then don't do that! Liquid…...
Germany’s Chemical Reckoning: How Europe is Dismantling its Industrial Core
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (464+ words) BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, 1881. The Industry That Built Modern Germany and the World Chemical manufacturing is among the most energy-intensive activities known to modern economies. Natural gas is not merely a fuel; it is a feedstock, a reagent and an…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Surface of Titan from Huygens
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (285+ words) Explanation: If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and distant landscape on Saturn's largest moon. The scene was recorded by ESA's Huygens probe in 2005 after a 2.5-hour…...
New Catalyst Design Solves a Decades-Old Chemical Challenge
9+ mon, 6+ day ago (215+ words) Researchers have created an iron-based catalyst that controls methane’s extreme reactivity, opening the door for natural gas to serve as a sustainable feedstock for high-value chemicals, including pharmaceuticals. In a key demonstration, the CiQUS team produced the bioactive compound dimestrol,…...
Scientists Are Generating Clean Electricity From… Chicken Feathers—And It Actually Works
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (538+ words) Scientists have unlocked a surprising clean energy breakthrough using an unlikely source from the poultry industry. In a potential breakthrough for green energy technology, scientists at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have developed a membrane for hydrogen…...
Scientists Create an Artificial “Leaf” That Turns CO₂ Into Useful Products
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (660+ words) Their non-toxic “semi-artificial leaf” can run continuously and efficiently, producing pharmaceutical compounds with high purity. The discovery could help replace fossil fuels in chemical manufacturing and spark a new era of green chemistry. Scientists have found a sustainable new method…...
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (252+ words) The chairperson of the committee that made the award compared the structures called metal-organic frameworks to the seemingly bottomless magical handbag carried by Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” series. Another example might be Mary Poppins’ enchanted carpet bag. These…...