Ocean Alarms From the Past: Century-Old Coral Exposes the Intensifying Pacific Current
Just as tree rings chronicle past climates, isotopic patterns in coral track historical shifts in ocean currents. According to a recent study in the journal…
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A Surprising New Method for Converting Light Into Electricity
A team led by Boston College has devised a new quantum sensor method to image and comprehend the source of photocurrent flow in Weyl semimetals….
Asian Restaurants Lose Billions: Study Links Decline to COVID Pandemic-Fueled Discrimination
A recent study has uncovered a strong correlation between a nearly 20% decrease in business at Chinese restaurants and political rhetoric that placed blame on…
Scientists Have Developed a New Explanation for Consciousness
According to a new theory, choices are formed unconsciously and become conscious around half a second later. Consciousness is your awareness of yourself and your…
Researchers Reveal That These 6 Types of People Are Least Likely To Be Prepared for Disaster
A new study identifies “socially vulnerable” people who are not prepared. Which Americans are least likely to be ready to respond when confronted with calamities…
Physicists Discover Elusive New Particle Through Tabletop Experiment
Materials that contain the axial Higgs mode could serve as quantum sensors to evaluate other quantum systems and help answer persistent questions in particle physics….
Kagome Lattice Superconductor Reveals a Complex “Cascade” of Quantum Electron States
In a rare non-magnetic kagome material, a topological metal cools into a superconductor through a sequence of novel charge density waves. Researchers have discovered a…
Novel Metal Discovered Where Electrons Flow in the Same Way Water Flows in a Pipe
The findings confirm theoretical predictions that certain metallic specimens could support an electron-phonon liquid phase. A team of researchers from Boston College has created a…
Closing a 25-Million Year Gap Between the “Molecular Clock” and the Fossil Record of Plants
Early Land Plants Evolved From Freshwater Algae, Fossils Reveal The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a new report in…
Cave Deposits Reveal Permafrost Thawed 400,000 Years Ago, When Temperatures Were Not Much Higher Than Today
Cave deposits reveal Pleistocene permafrost thaw, absent predicted levels of CO2 release. The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America…
Decellularized Spinach Serves as an Edible Platform for Growing Artificial Meat
The veiny skeleton of a spinach leaf shows for the first time it can support the growth of artificial meat, a Boston College researcher reports….
Converting Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Efficiently Using a Bioinspired Tandem Catalytic System
Encapsulating multiple molecular catalysts in nanoporous metal-organic frameworks central to efficient transformation. Converting carbon dioxide to methanol, a potentially renewable alternative fuel, offers an opportunity…
“Remarkable and Puzzling” – A New Explanation for the Origins of Human Fatherhood
Dads emerged to reap the benefits of partnerships with females and other males, team of anthropologists and economists argue. Humans differ from other primates in…
Fragmented Magnetism – Elusive Atomic-Scale Magnetic Signal Revealed
Researchers from Boston College, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara reveal an elusive atomic-scale magnetic ‘signal’ in a Mott insulator. Probing the properties of a Mott…
Scientists Probe the Properties of a Fluctuating Magnetism Known as a Spin-Liquid State
A newly published study provides a detailed analysis of how herbertsmithite’s electrons respond to light, revealing a signature in the optical conductivity of the spin-liquid…
Researchers Identify a New Form of Carbon: Grossly Warped ‘Nanographene’
A team of researchers has identified a new form of carbon, a “grossly warped nanographene.” Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – Chemists at Boston College and Nagoya…