In an international collaboration between Japan and Sweden, scientists clarified how gravity affects the shape of matter near the black hole in binary system Cygnus X-1. Their findings, which were published in Nature Astronomy this month, may help scientists further understand the physics of strong gravity and the evolution of black holes and galaxies. Near the center…
Machine Learning Offers New Way of Designing Chiral Crystals
Engineers and chemists at Hiroshima University successfully used the same technology at the core of facial recognition to design chiral crystals. This is the first study reporting the use of this technology, called logistic regression analysis, to predict which chemical groups are best for making chiral molecules. Results were published in Chemistry Letters. Chirality describes…
Precisely Defined Polymer Chains Now a Reality
Manufactured polymers are ubiquitous in our 21st Century lives. The large molecules – long chains of smaller molecules bonded together, form any synthetic clothing you might be wearing, rubbers and glues, and anything made of plastic. However, the material properties exhibited by manmade polymers, rely on the sequence order taken by individual molecules making up…