Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The ...

Hidden fuel for ocean microbes: Urea emerges as key energy source for marine ammonia oxidizers

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are some of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean and play a key role in nitrogen ...
Chemistry World

Inorganic homologous series forms solids with predictable structures

Newly uncovered structure-composition relationship could help to improve AI's ability to predict new inorganic materials ...
Science Daily

Researchers catch atoms standing still inside molten metal

Scientists have uncovered that some atoms in liquids don't move at all—even at extreme temperatures—and these anchored atoms dramatically alter the way materials freeze. Using advanced electron ...
C&EN

Electron Spin Decoherence Dynamics in Magnetic Manganese Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Crystals: The Effect of Lattice Dimensionality

Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University, International Campus of Tianjin University, Binhai New City, Fuzhou 350207, China ...

Limitations of AI-based material prediction: Crystallographic disorder represents a stumbling block

Computer simulations and artificial intelligence often make significant errors when predicting the properties of new, ...
Nature

9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth

Looking out of the Fendouzhe submersible, more than nine kilometres below the ocean surface, Mengran Du knew she was seeing ...