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Organizing nanoparticles into pinwheel shapes offers new twist on engineered materials
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —Researchers have developed a new strategy to help build materials with unique optical, magnetic, electronic and catalytic properties....
California Academy of Sciences researchers reveal how extinct Steller’s sea cow shaped kelp forests
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 28, 2022) — For millions of years, the Steller’s sea cow, a four-ton marine mammal and...
For female astronomers, the COVID-19 pandemic widened publishing’s gender gap
Before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down labs and sent scientists home to work, female astronomers on average published about...
A crystal shape conundrum is finally solved
HOUSTON – (Nov. 28, 2022) – A crystal’s shape is determined by its inherent chemistry, a characteristic that ultimately determines...
Mom’s dietary fat rewires male and female brains differently
DURHAM, NC -- More than half of all women in the United States are overweight or obese when they become...
Unlocking the organic chemistry of N2O3 through continuous flow process technology
Researchers at CiTOS - Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis (University of Liège, BE) led by Jean-Christophe Monbaliu have...
Nanoengineers develop a predictive database for materials
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have developed an AI algorithm that predicts the...
COVID-19 has had positive effect on astronomy research, but negative effect on new and female researchers
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both positive and negative impacts on astronomy research, where overall the number of research papers...
Researchers discover root exudates have surprising and counterintuitive impact on soil carbon storage
Ecosystem ecology studies often focus on what’s happening to plants above ground, for instance exploring photosynthesis or water loss in...
Unique features of octopus create ‘an entirely new way of designing a nervous system’
Octopuses are not much like humans — they are invertebrates with eight arms, and more closely related to clams and...
New analysis finds pandemic didn’t dampen deforestation
Despite the massive upheavals in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation globally proceeded more or less as expected...
New research on how affective polarization might lead to changes in our democratic attitudes
Today in many countries we witness democratic backsliding that manifests itself with a lapse in political rights, civil liberties, and...
Samin Sharma, MD, named Director of the Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute
Samin K. Sharma, MD, has been named Director of the Mount Sinai Cardiovascular Clinical Institute. In this new role within...
Women in scientific societies, a positive development
Using the Econometric Society and other international societies as the basis for their research, the group of researchers comprising Nagore...
Brining poultry: Cooking with chemistry or hot nonsense? (video)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2022 — The chemistry behind brining meat is well established — but is this decades-old technique just...
How to fire projectiles through materials without breaking anything
It sounds a bit like a magic trick: Some materials can be shot through with fast, electrically charged ions without...
Bioreactor keeps cell culture conditions under control
A cell-culturing technique developed by KAUST scientists helps to create biological conditions that more closely mirror physiological environments compared to...
Ethnic diversity and disparities in access to genetic testing impact prostate cancer development and treatment, research shows
Singapore, 28 November 2022 – More than 1.4 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020 globally, (1) but...
Bringing the Kelvin problem solutions to life with the first-ever polymeric Weaire-Phelan structures
An interesting class of problems in geometry concerns tiling or tessellation, in which a surface or three-dimensional space is covered...
Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods
The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals,...
