Targeting MXenes for sustainable ammonia production
In a hunt for more sustainable technologies, researchers are looking further into enabling two-dimensional materials in renewable energy that could lead to sustainable production of chemicals such as ammonia, which is used ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Decade-long study shows reduced winter snowpack impairs forests' ability to store carbon
Forests are a crucial resource for carbon mitigation, currently offsetting around 20% of North American carbon emissions. As temperatures continue to rise, scientists are rushing to understand how climate change is affecting ...
Spin as an input parameter: Machine learning predicts magnetic properties of materials
Magnetic materials are in high demand. They're essential to the energy storage innovations on which electrification depends and to the robotics systems powering automation. They're also inside more familiar products, from ...
Condensed Matter
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First-ever ribosomal synthesis of cyclic peptides opens new avenues for next-generation drug design
Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in billions of years. A research team has become the first in the world to successfully expand the ...
Biotechnology
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From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy
Got a sore throat and the sniffles? The recent rise of rapid at-home tests has made it easier to find out if you have a serious illness like COVID-19 or just a touch of spring allergies. But while quick and convenient, these ...
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Inhibitory neurons born later found to mature quicker during brain development
The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells (neurons) that communicate with each other in vast, interconnected networks. For the brain to function reliably, there must be a fine balance between two types of signals: ...
Genetics
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Eco-friendly method enhances perovskite solar cell quality using camphor-based additive
A recent study demonstrates how a substance derived from camphor, a natural extract from the camphor tree, can significantly improve the quality of perovskite thin films used in solar cells. This material's sublimation property—its ...
Engineering
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Can ChatGPT actually 'see' red? New study results are nuanced
ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users' prompts. Color metaphors like "feeling blue" and "seeing red" are commonplace throughout the English ...
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Heat wave duration is accelerating faster than global warming, researchers find
New research finds that not only will climate change make heat waves hotter and longer, but the lengthening of heat waves will accelerate with each additional fraction of a degree of warming.
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Chagas disease transmission: Kissing bugs readily invade human dwellings to feed on humans and companion animals
Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their resources to investigate the potential of vector-borne transmission of Chagas in Florida. The 10-year-long ...
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Scientists reveal structural mechanism behind photosystem II in green algae
Photosystem II (PSII) is the only biological machine capable of splitting water into oxygen using sunlight. It plays a fundamental role in global oxygen production and solar energy conversion. However, PSII is highly prone ...
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Satellites reveal tropical wetland flooding did not cause methane surge
A large increase in atmospheric methane between 2020 and 2022 raised concerns that tropical wetland emissions had surged in response to a changing climate, but a study led by the University of Michigan shows that this was ...
Earth Sciences
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Discovery of donor molecule pair could transform OLED technology and explosives detection
In modern devices, such as phone screens or advanced sensors, light is often generated by pairs of organic molecules, where one molecule, known as the donor, transmits electrons, and the other, referred to as the acceptor, ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Scientists unlock key manufacturing challenge for next-generation optical chips
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have developed a new method for assembling ultra-small, light-controlling devices, paving the way for scalable manufacturing of advanced optical systems used in quantum technologies, ...
Engineering
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Microrobots shaped and steered by metal patches could aid drug delivery and pollution cleanup
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a new way to build and control tiny particles that can move and work like microscopic robots, offering a powerful tool with applications in biomedical and environmental ...
Nanomaterials
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Quantum clocks deliver navigation accuracy far beyond current GPS systems in naval tests
Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to outperform GPS navigation systems by many orders of magnitude. The clocks, which were put through their paces in naval exercises, were designed ...
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Neanderthal DNA could be the cause of some modern brain malformations
If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to blame.
Selective biocatalyst targets styrene pollutant, yielding pure epoxides for pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals
Doctoral students have described a new selective biocatalyst in an interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration. The biocatalyst can produce useful epoxides from harmful styrene, and do this so selectively that only ...
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How lakes connect to groundwater critical for resilience to climate change, research finds
Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and shortages, new research has found.
UK hopes to bolster space weather forecasts with Europe's first solar storm monitor
A new U.K.-led satellite mission concept aims to strengthen the country's position in space weather observation and forecasting by deploying a suite of homegrown scientific instruments on a low-cost spacecraft in low-Earth ...
People in Nordic region are more satisfied than other EU citizens with big city life
Are you young, female, well-educated, in a job, and live in a big city in a rich EU country? If you answer yes to all these questions, you're probably among people who are most satisfied with your life.
Research reveals middle-class families hit hardest by South Korea's cost-of-living crisis
As prices rose across the globe following the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, many expected the usual pattern, i.e., low-income households bearing the brunt of inflation. But in South Korea, they observed something exactly ...
Investigating whether we truly have free will
Does something like "free will" really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have debated the issue for decades—if not centuries. In his recent Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit ...
Tracking ice, tracking change: Satellite data reveal how melting glaciers reshape landscapes
Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė Buslavičiūtė and Dr. Laurynas Jukna from the Institute of Geosciences at the Faculty of Chemistry and ...
No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas
As authorities search for victims of the flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, social media users are spreading false claims that the devastation was caused by weather ...
German paper challenges invasive raccoon myths
Raccoons are often seen as cute and harmless wildlife—but that is a misconception. "Raccoons are native animals," "They reproduce faster when hunted," "Everything about raccoons has already been said"—these are just a ...
Q&A: Education researcher discusses the future of AI in K-12 education
"AI could potentially change education drastically," says UC San Diego education scholar Amy Eguchi, who is both excited and concerned about the prospect.
Why chronic heat stress makes chickens fatter: New insights into poultry metabolism
Broiler chickens, bred for rapid growth, accumulate more fat under chronic heat stress, which reduces meat quality and production efficiency. In a recent study, researchers from Japan revealed that heat stress directly alters ...
Gut length driven by 'sexual conflict' in fish species
A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the trait are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have the same gut length. The ...
Sea lamprey travel patterns follow the deepest parts of Great Lakes waterways
How do you catch an invasive fish that's solitary and nocturnal?
Thousands told to stay home as Spain forest fire rages
Hundreds of Spanish firefighters on Tuesday battled a forest fire stoked by fierce winds that had burned more than 3,000 hectares, with authorities ordering 18,000 residents to stay at home.
France wildfire shuts down Marseille airport
A wildfire in southern France on Tuesday forced Marseille airport to close and interrupted train traffic as the blaze spread rapidly to the edges of the city.
'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa
Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...
Younger workers not adjusting to rising state pension age, study finds
New research from the University of Bath finds older Brits are delaying retirement due to rising State Pension age but many younger workers, especially women, risk being underprepared by holding onto unrealistic early retirement ...
Image: Hubble captures stellar duo
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this image released on Jan. 27, 2023. The pair lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation ...
Study reveals urgent conservation needs for Siberian flying squirrel
The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from eastern Russia to Finland and Estonia. Despite its wide distribution, little was previously known ...
15th century holy books of Ethiopian Jewry discovered—the oldest found to date
A Rare Discovery: A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the possession of Beta Israel.
Pretrained jet foundation model successfully utilized for tau reconstruction
Simulating data in particle physics is expensive and not perfectly accurate. To get around this, researchers are now exploring the use of foundation models—large AI models trained in a general, task-agnostic way on large ...
