Surprising Secret to Making Stronger Concrete: Sewage
A by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete. Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making…
A by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete. Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making…
The 1950s and ‘60s poisoning event was long attributed to methylmercury, but studies at SLAC suggest a different compound was to blame. The findings could…
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…
90 years ago, the physicist Hans Bethe postulated that unusual patterns, so-called Bethe strings, appear in certain magnetic solids. Now an international team has succeeded…
At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from…
People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new…
Note: There is now a newer Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 79. WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 78 One new country/territory/area reported cases of…
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The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be…
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’…
As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure” that saw the safe return of…
Researchers zero in on the rhythmic sound bubble dynamics produce during bottle emptying to better understand the physics at play. Bottle emptying is a phenomenon…
The tiniest creatures on the planet are vital to their environment … so always look on the small side of life. Some of the tiniest…
A well-known hangover drug not only helps soothe pounding headaches but also triggers profound changes that protect the liver, USC scientists report new findings that…
Data from over 200 U.S. urban areas highlight need for more aggressive countermeasures. Cities are vibrant centers of modern life, tied together by dense and…
Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m (115-ft) diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into the Martian atmosphere. This qualification…
The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, Paschal Moon, Hanuman Jayanti, Bak…
Researchers at EPFL have developed a nanodevice that operates more than 10 times faster than today’s fastest transistors, and about 100 times faster than the…