Chemistry, Not Magic: Batteries That Can Be Assembled in Ambient Air
The honor of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to those who developed lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. These batteries have become an essential energy source…
The honor of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to those who developed lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. These batteries have become an essential energy source…
Salk researchers discover that miniature aquatic plant provides insight into genome design principles that could enable development of next-generation crops. Wolffia, also known as duckweed,…
An atlas of harmful algal blooms across the Red Sea reveals their link with industrial aquaculture and how these blooms have changed in recent decades….
Editor’s note: Varghese Mathai is a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies the flow of fluids and gases. He conducted a study…
A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system of wildlife refuges. Elaborate feathered hats—sometimes festooned with whole…
What Is Dark Matter? Dark matter accounts for five times as much of the universe as ordinary matter. However, we know little about it other…
Understanding the nutritional impact of adding a serving of mushrooms on usual intakes and population nutrient adequacy using NHANES 2011-2016 data. Researchers have identified another…
A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to complete on a powerful desktop computer can now be done in one hour on a…
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
For most of Earth’s history, life was limited to the microscopic realm, with bacteria occupying nearly every possible niche. Life is generally thought to have…
Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew clothing in factories, but the assembly of microscopic components, such as those for biomedical…
A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New…
A bright foreground star isn’t enough to distract from the grandeur of the galaxy UGC 3885, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. While…
New model shows why countries that retaliate too much against online attacks make things worse for themselves. During the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter…
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics. One eagerly anticipated survey…
University of Stuttgart researchers developed a particle-based imaging approach that enables the spatially and temporally resolved investigation of vastly different systems such as ground-state samples,…
The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium launches with 13 company members to work with MIT on innovation in climate and sustainability. Launched on January 28,…
A new report combining forecasting and expert prediction data, predicts that 125,000 lives could be saved by the end of 2021 if 50% or more…