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The Museum of Modern Art has announced details of “Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China,” an exhibition highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects and their commitment to social and environmental sustainability. On display from September 16, 2021 through July...
POSS-peptoid molecules self-assemble into rhomboid-shaped nanocrystals. CREDIT (Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Abstract: Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a novel material capable of capturing light energy. This material provides a highly efficient artificial light-harvesting system with potential applications in photovoltaics and bioimaging. Harvesting light like nature does:Synthesizing a new class of bio-inspired, light-capturing nanomat...
A new class of bio-inspired two-dimensional (2D) hybrid nanomaterials mimic the ability of photosynthetic plants and bacteria.
Music from fiddles fit for an emperor By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-08 08:36 Share CLOSE MILA String Quartet performs at the concert hall of Tianjin Juilliard School on Dec 16, 2020.[Photo provided to China Daily] Li began playing the violin when he was 5 and went on to attend the Shanghai Conservatory Middle School when he was 14, in 1979. Three years later he was selected through the first cultural exchange program between Shanghai and San Francisco to study for one year at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. "Wi...
Inside The $4.5 Billion Erotic Massage Parlor Economy ILLUSTRATION BY FORBES; PHOTOS BY NAME Lisa J. Goodman/Getty Images Massages involving sexual acts are everywhere in the United States. But the stories of the women who provide them reveal less about sex trafficking and more about the high price some immigrants pay for a chance at the American Dream. Just before noon on a Thursday, a police cruiser sits on the corner of 40th Road and Prince Street in Flushing, New York, with its lights whirling. A few paces up 40th, sandwiched among a barber shop, a dumpling restaurant, and a travel agency...