2+ hour, 9+ min ago  (200+ words) | Newswise Newswise Soft adhesive hydrogel improves long-term wearable health monitoring A soft adhesive hydrogel interface for wearable electrophysiological monitoring. Wearable health devices rely on electrodes that can pick up tiny electrical signals from the body. However, maintaining a stable connection…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (410+ words) A new Tufts University imaging facility is doing something that most microscopy centers in the world cannot: allowing scientists to examine a butterfly wing, a living tissue, or a microchip and reveal their physical structure, molecular chemistry, and elemental composition…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (461+ words) | Newswise Newswise EU project pursues electrochemical CO₂ conversion from industrial waste The parallel reactor for CO₂ electrolysis at Empa's Materials for Energy Conversion laboratory will enable researchers to investigate the performance of the catalyst. Many people know ethylene from their…...

1+ week, 39+ min ago  (438+ words) | Newswise Newswise Microbes Turn Hazardous Waste Into Valuable Products Study shows liquid waste from pretreating biomass can be transformed into chemicals used to make plastics and other products Journal cover art that illustrates the concept of using microbes to harvest…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (386+ words) | Newswise Newswise Stress-free magnesium anode breaks through to Ah-level pouch cell, paving way for commercial rechargeable magnesium batteries One-step protonated organic solvent treatment enables stress-free magnesium anode for Ah-level pouch cells. The native oxide film (MgO and Mg(OH)₂) that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (449+ words) | Newswise Newswise Water shield, not just a barrier: How hydrogels are outsmarting biofouling in medical implants Hydration mechanisms, classification, and biomedical applications of anti-biofouling hydrogels. This schematic illustrates the two core hydration mechanisms—hydrogen-bonding and ion-solvation—that enable hydrogels to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (154+ words) In December 1951, Argonne's Experimental Breeder Reactor-I lit up a string of four lightbulbs with the world's first usable electricity from nuclear energy. One of the bulbs was presented to Harry Truman, then President of the United States. An aerial view…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (915+ words) Steven Farrell, Juan Jimenez, and Sanjaya Senanayake stand at the Inner Shell Spectroscopy (ISS) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II. They used X-ray spectroscopy at this beamline to reveal structural and electronic characteristics of molybdenum atoms in a molybdenum…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago  (778+ words) Newswise — Refining crude oil into gasoline, jet fuel, and other everyday products requires enormous amounts of energy. The atmospheric and vacuum distillation processes used in refineries worldwide consume more than 1,100 terawatt-hours of energy annually — roughly enough to power 100 million U....

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (344+ words) More than 8,000 guests spent the day meeting researchers, visiting major research facilities and taking part in activities in AI, particle physics, materials, energy and more. “I was excited to see the accelerator. That was one of the big things I…...