NASA finds heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Cristobal
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The third tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean basin has been generating large amounts of rainfall over Mexico's Yucatan and parts of...
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Graphene and 2D materials could move electronics beyond ‘Moore’s Law’
Credit: The University of Manchester A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review...
Studies of brain activity aren’t as useful as scientists thought
Duke researcher questions 15 years of his own work with a reexamination of functional MRI dataCredit: Annchen Knodt, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Hundreds of...
HKBU establishes six interdisciplinary research laboratories to expand research strengths
Credit: Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University has established six interdisciplinary research laboratories that expand on the University's existing research strengths. The research...
Etching the road to a hydrogen economy using plasma jets
Scientists improve light-driven water-splitting to produce hydrogen by etching the reaction catalyst with plasma jets in solutionCredit: Tokyo University of Science The ever-worsening global environmental...
Boosting energy efficiency of 2D material electronics using topological semimetal
Credit: SUTD Driven by the ever-increasing desires of the consumer market for smaller, lighter and smarter devices, the size of consumer electronics such as smartphones,...
Novel bioaccumulative compounds found in marine bivalves
Nontarget and target screening of organohalogen compounds in mussels and sediment from Hiroshima Bay, JapanCredit: Reprinted with permission from Environmental Science & Technology. © 2020...
New test of dark energy and expansion from cosmic structures
Credit: Image credit: Jeremy Tinker and the SDSS-III collaboration A new paper has shown how large structures in the distribution of galaxies in the Universe...
Anisotropy of spin-lattice relaxations in molecular magnets
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Scientists from IFJ PAN in cooperation with researchers from the Nara Women's University (Japan) and the Jagiellonian University (Poland) took another...
Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b08714 Scientists have tried to develop synthetic red blood cells that mimic the favorable properties of natural ones,...
Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty
HAMR-JR is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots to dateCredit: (Image courtesy of Kaushik Jayaram/Harvard SEAS) This itsy-bitsy robot can't climb up the...
Double-sided solar panels that follow the sun prove most cost effective
Credit: Rodríguez-Gallegos et al./Joule Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and single-axis tracking technology that tilts...
Super water-repellent materials are now durable enough for the real world
A new armour-plated superhydrophobic material has been developed for potential uses in medical equipment, solar panels and moreCredit: Aalto University Superhydrophobic surfaces repel water like...
New laser system provides 3D reconstructions of living deep-sea animals and mucus filters
Credit: Image: © 2020 MBARI Living in an essentially zero-gravity environment, many deep-sea animals have evolved soft, gelatinous bodies and collect food using elaborate mucus...
Active particles with light-switchable propulsion direction and reversible interactions
Credit: Source: UW Physics, M. Lisicki Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, ETH in Zurich and the University of Cambridge...
