Rare blast’s remains discovered in Milky Way’s center
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Nanjing Univ./P. Zhou et al. Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA Astronomers may have found our galaxy's first example of an unusual kind of stellar explosion. This...
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Tourism mainly responsible for marine litter on Mediterranean beaches
The global COVID19 pandemic may be an opportunity to rethink the model of sustainable tourisCredit: ICTA-UAB Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology...
Tiny crustacean redefines ultra-fast movement
Monster claw snaps shut 10,000 times faster than blink of an eyeCredit: Patek Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The world's most technologically advanced robots...
Mixed and matched: Integrating metal-organic frameworks into polymers for CO2 separation
New strategy boosts the performance of membranes for filtering CO2 from industrial emissionsCredit: Chris LeBoutillier on Pexels One of humanity's biggest challenges right now is...
Uncovering how some corals resist bleaching
Climate change is bleaching and killing corals, but researchers from Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are investigating how some can stand up to...
High CO2 to slow tropical fish move to cooler waters
Credit: Image credit: Ericka Coni Under increasing global warming, tropical fish are escaping warmer seas by extending their habitat ranges towards more temperate waters. But...
‘Magnetic graphene’ forms a new kind of magnetism
Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in...
Efficiency limits of next-generation hybrid photovoltaic-thermal solar technology
Credit: by Gan Huang, Kai Wang and Christos N. Markides. Solar energy is one of the most abundant renewable energy sources, and effective solar technologies...
A magnetic twist to graphene
By combining ferromagnets and two rotated layers of graphene, researchers open up a new platform for strongly interacting states using graphene's unique quantum degree of...
Bernese researchers create sophisticated lung-on-chip
Credit: Pauline Zamprogno, ARTORG Center for Biological Engineering Research The lung is a complex organ whose main function is to exchange gases. It is the...
‘Multiplying’ light could be key to ultra-powerful optical computers
Credit: Gleb Berloff An important class of challenging computational problems, with applications in graph theory, neural networks, artificial intelligence and error-correcting codes can be solved...
New timeline of deadliest California wildfire could guide lifesaving research and action
Credit: NIST On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled...
UMass Amherst researchers gain insight into the biology of a deadly fungus
Bd's actin structures likely play roles in causing skin disease threatening amphibians worldwideCredit: UMass Amherst Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have gained new...
3D-printed spectrometer on a 100 x100 μm² footprint
Credit: by Andrea Toulouse, Johannes Drozella, Simon Thiele, Harald Giessen, and Alois Herkommer Femtosecond direct laser writing as a 3D printing technology has been one...
Halt cell recycling to treat cancer
UC researchers found that stopping cell recycling in cancer cells could help treat a very aggressive form of breast cancerCredit: University of Cincinnati Recycling cans...
