Submissions are being accepted for the 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Researchers in Developing Countries.
27 July 2017
Find out who will receive one of the 2016 Acta student awards.
27 July 2017Christopher A. Schuh
Scientists have increased the stiffness, or ‘elastic modulus’, of a soft silicon-based polymer by infusing it with tiny pockets of liquid gallium.
27 July 2017
By depositing bismuth onto a silicon carbide substrate, scientists have created a topological insulator that can work at room temperatures.
27 July 2017
Scientists have developed a method for pulling super-stretchy and strong fibers with properties similar to spider silk out of a hydrogel.
25 July 2017
A new low-temperature solution printing technique can fabricate high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals.
25 July 2017
Scientists have found evidence for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high-temperature superconductors.
24 July 2017
The World Science Festival and Annals of Physics join forces at an event at Columbia University.
24 July 2017Marc Chahin
A combination of experimental and theoretical methods has revealed evidence of superconductivity on ultrathin lithium titanate films.
21 July 2017
Revealing the presence of radioactive substances when they are no longer present.
19 July 2017David Bradley
Molecular cages - metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs).
19 July 2017David Bradley
Scientists have produced the most detailed study yet of the thermal effects of semiconducting metal-nitride nanowires.
18 July 2017
Scientists have created a novel 2D material in which electrons travel in one direction with one type of spin, which could be useful for spintronics.
12 July 2017
A new low-temperature catalyst can produce high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide.
10 July 2017
Scientists have found that amorphous regions of a polymer film can transport ions, while crystalline regions are better at conducting electrons.
7 July 2017
Scientists have made theoretically-predicted heterostructural alloys, blends of compounds that don't share the same atomic arrangement.
7 July 2017
A novel nickel oxide compound is an unconventional but promising candidate material for high-temperature superconductivity.
6 July 2017
A new semiconductor alloy that can capture near-infrared light could improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of concentrator photovoltaics.
6 July 2017
Mimicking useful properties of melanin-like materials.
6 July 2017Laurie Donaldson
Assemblies of metallic nanoparticles at multiple length scales behave like bulk magnets and display shape-dependent behavior.
3 July 2017