Harnessing the Entire Spectrum of Sunlight to Make Solar Energy More Efficient
Chemistry finding could make solar energy more efficient as researchers have found a way to harness the entire spectrum of sunlight. Scientists for the first…
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New Kirigami (Folded Paper) Designs Support 14,000 Times Their Own Weight
A team of researchers found that using the origami-inspired art of paper cutting and folding, it is possible to create super strong models from lightweight…
Reports of Huge Reductions in This Potent Greenhouse Gas Are Wrong – Emissions Are Soaring
Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University…
Half of Late 20th-Century Arctic Warming Caused by Ozone-Depleting Substances – “It’s a Good-News Story”
Implicated in a Third of Overall Global Warming for the Time Period A scientific paper published in 1985 was the first to report a burgeoning…
Potential Link Between Marijuana and Heart Risks Discovered by Cardiologists
Review recommends patients at risk of cardiovascular events should be counseled to avoid or minimize marijuana use until further data are available. As more states…
Physics Shows That Imperfections Make Perfect: Systems Can Synchronize Only When Individual Parts Are Mismatched
Northwestern University researchers have added a new dimension to the importance of diversity. For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated that certain systems with…
NASA’s Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Confirms Discovery of “Bonus” Exploration Opportunity
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite….
Hydrogel Enables Ingestible Medical Devices That Can Be Broken Down With Light
New light-sensitive material could eliminate some of the endoscopic procedures needed to remove gastrointestinal devices. A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the…
The James Webb Space Telescope Is the Largest, Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built [Video]
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built. The Webb Telescope is so large; it…
One-of-a-Kind Dinosaur Specimen Discovered in China Offers View Into Dinosaur-Bird Evolution
San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds. A new species of…
New Quantum Detector Measures the Tiniest Energies in Superconducting Circuits
A new device measures the tiniest energies in superconducting circuits, an essential step for quantum technology. Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and…
H0LiCOW! Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe’s Expansion That Adds to Troubling Discrepancy
New Hubble Measurement Strengthens Discrepancy in Universe’s Expansion Rate People use the phrase “Holy Cow” to express excitement. Playing with that phrase, researchers from an…
New Membrane Technology Improves Water Purification and Battery Energy Storage
Imperial College London scientists have created a new type of membrane that could improve water purification and battery energy storage efforts. The new approach to…
2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record According to Both NASA & NOAA
According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since…
ESA Opens Oxygen Plant – Making Breathable Air Out of Moondust
ESA’s technical heart has begun to produce oxygen out of simulated moondust. A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical…
Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Matter by Taking Its Temperature
Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis, are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about…
Engineers Melt Rock Under Intense Pressure – For Science! [Video]
‘Melting rock’ models predict mechanical origins of earthquakes with friction dropping as rocks slide past one another with greater speed. Engineers at Duke University have…
Most Widely Used Cooking Oil Causes Genetic Changes in the Brain
America’s most widely consumed oil, soybean oil, linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice. New University of California Riverside research shows soybean oil not…