Replacing Carbon Fuel With Nitrogen: Chemists Discover New Way To Harness Energy From Ammonia
A research team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be…
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Massive Flying Laboratory Uncovers Secrets of How Marine Life Influences Cloud Formation
Ocean Life Helps Produce Clouds, but Existing Clouds Keep New Ones at Bay Stand on the ocean’s shore and take a big whiff of the…
New Carnivorous Plant Discovered in North America – Balances Trapping Prey and Being Pollinated
Botanists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of British Columbia have discovered a new carnivorous plant in western North America. Triantha occidentalis makes its…
11% More First-Wave COVID-19 Cases in Counties With State Prisons
The presence of a state prison in a county was associated with 11% more COVID-19 cases through July 1, 2020, according to a new study…
Fossil Pollen Shows Earth’s Vegetation Is Changing Faster Today Than It Has Over the Last 18,000 Years
A global survey of fossil pollen has discovered that the planet’s vegetation is changing at least as quickly today as it did when the last…
Scientists Engineer a Better Way to Block Viruses That Cause Childhood Respiratory Infections
By engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells, researchers have improved a method…
New Nondestructive Optical Technique Reveals the Structure of Mother-of-Pearl, a Tough Iridescent Biomineral
Most people know mother-of-pearl, an iridescent biomineral also called nacre, from buttons, jewelry, instrument inlays, and other decorative flourishes. Scientists, too, have admired and marveled…
60-Year-Old Physics Theory Proven by IceCube Detection of a High-Energy Particle
On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. The particle, an electron antineutrino,…
IceCube Detection of a High-Energy Particle – Antineutrino “Unmistakably of Extraterrestrial Origin”
The South Pole neutrino detector saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960 where an electron antineutrino…
Wearing COVID-19 Face Coverings Around Kids Doesn’t Mask Your Emotions
The proliferation of face coverings to keep COVID-19 in check isn’t keeping kids from understanding facial expressions, according to a new study by University of…
New Recycling Process Could Cut Down on Millions of Tons of Plastic Waste
Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or…
New Understanding of Coral Skeleton Growth Suggests Ways to Restore Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are vibrant communities that host a quarter of all species in the ocean and are indirectly crucial to the survival of the rest….
Do the Twist: Making 2D Quantum Materials Using Curved Surfaces
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The…
Massive Magellanic Cloud Halo Discovery Finally Explains Stream of Gas Swirling Around the Milky Way
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the…
Solar Flow Battery: Single Device Generates, Stores and Redelivers Renewable Electricity From the Sun
Chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and…
New Understanding of Ceramic Materials May Reveal Ways to Improve Solar Panels, Superconductors, and Biomedical Implants
When most people think of ceramics, they might envision their favorite mug or a flowerpot. But modern technology is full of advanced ceramics, from silicon…
First Optical Measurements of Milky Way’s Mysterious Fermi Bubbles
Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time measured the Fermi Bubbles in the visible light spectrum. The Fermi Bubbles are…
Study Confirms Cats Can Become Infected With COVID-19
In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats…