Collecting Lithium From Seawater To Meet Demand for Batteries
Asst. Prof. Chong Liu seeks to design electrodes to collect lithium for batteries from seawater. It’s estimated that by the end of the decade, electric…
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How People Can End Up Living at Airports for Months – Even Years – at a Time
In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October,…
New Evidence: America’s First Civilization Was Made Up of “Sophisticated” Engineers
The Native Americans who occupied the area known as Poverty Point in northern Louisiana more than 3,000 years ago long have been believed to be…
Ancient Documents Suggest Italian Sailors Knew of America 150 Years Before Christopher Columbus
Ahead of Columbus Day, findings pose further questions of what the explorer really expected to find on his voyage. New analysis of ancient writings suggests…
Concrete World: Engineers To Improve Reinforced Steel To Contain High-Level Nuclear Waste
Metals embedded in concrete can erode, rusting, and weakening until the concrete splits and the structure it supports falls. Such corrosion is believed to be…
MIT Mathematicians Solve an Old Geometry Problem on Equiangular Lines
How many lines can be pairwise separated by the same angle in high dimensions? Geometry breakthrough gives new insights into spectral graph theory. Equiangular lines…
Human Sustainability Challenges: Deep Roots of the “Anthropocene” Can Be Found in Tropical Forests
Tropical forests regularly appear in the news as the front line of climate change and human sustainability challenges. They are some of the most threatened…
Tiny “Dragon” – Mysterious New Species Is Oldest Meat-Eating Dinosaur Found in UK
The oldest-known meat-eating dinosaur discovered in the UK has been named in honor of trailblazing Museum scientist Angela Milner, who passed away in August 2021….
Consuming Wild Meat Instead of Domesticated Livestock Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions and retains precious tropical forest systems, which in turn mitigates the effects…
The Unusual Suspects: Mysterious Case of the Aquarium’s Disappearing Anti-Parasitic Medicine
Hungry microbes found responsible for stealing from Shedd Aquarium’s animals. For months, veterinarians put medicine into the animals’ quarantine habitats at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, ensuring…
Extinct Ground Sloth – Mylodon darwinii – Likely Ate Meat With Its Veggies
New study reveals that Mylodon was an omnivore, unlike its strictly plant-eating relatives. A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural…
“Mystery of Manu” – A Strange Tree in the Amazon Rainforest Left Scientists Scratching Their Heads for 50 Years
“Mystery plant” from the Amazon declared a new species after nearly 50 years of flummoxing scientists. In 1973, a scientist stumbled upon a strange tree…
New Species of Tardigrade (Water Bear) Discovered in 16 Million-Year-Old Dominican Amber
Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are a diverse group of charismatic microscopic invertebrates that are best known for their ability to survive extreme conditions….
“Hands-On” Meets “Minds-On” – New Research Shows Learning Is More Effective When Active
Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback, and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic performance compared to traditional lectures, lessons, or readings, faculty from Carnegie…
Late Persistence of Human Ancestors at the Margins of the Monsoon Zone in India
The longest lasting tool-making tradition in prehistory, known as the Acheulean, appears more than 1.5 million years ago in Africa and 1.2 million years ago…
Even Mild Cases of COVID-19 Leave a Mark on the Brain – And It’s Not Yet Clear How Long It Lasts
With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have been steadily gathering new and important insights into the effects of…
Debunked: Is the “Placebo Effect” Just a Myth?
In an opinion article, Australian researchers argue that the ‘placebo effect’ — the idea that we can start to recover from illness after being given…
No, Stress Isn’t Always Bad. Here’s How To Harness It To Enhance Performance
University of Rochester psychologists find that college students who reinterpret their stress response as performance-enhancing are less anxious and generally healthier. Sweaty palms during a…