Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new class of lanthanide-doped nanomaterials that exhibit extraordinarily high optical nonlinearity, exceeding a magnitude ...

X-rays are electromagnetic waves with short wavelengths and strong penetrability in physical matter, including live organisms. Scintillators capable of converting X-rays into the ultraviolet (UV), ...

Ten years ago, in a steaming volcanic mudpot in Italy, microbiologists discovered a bizarre bacterium—the first known organism that couldn’t live without lanthanides. To help it feed on methane, ...

LEDs are all around us and come in quite a few different forms, but this new discovery just might open up a whole new realm ...

Study: Triplets electrically turn on insulating lanthanide-doped nanoparticles. Image Credit: Vershinin89/Shutterstock.com In a recent Nature article, researchers ...

"We like to make molecules that have no right to exist", says Dr David Mills from the University of Manchester. "Imagining ways to make our target molecules is a fun and creative process, and provides ...

A comprehensive review published in Food & Medicine Homology highlights the transformative potential of time-resolved ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, researchers under the direction of Associate Professor Shinji Harada from Chiba University's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences ...

Although the Periodic Table of Elements is an impressive achievement of human understanding, scientists are still finding secrets about certain elements among its carefully arranged rows and columns.