Climate Change Already Dramatically Disrupting All Elements Of Nature
Global changes in temperature due to human-induced climate change have already impacted every aspect of life on Earth including Arctic species like this bearded...
Researchers discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices
Fariborz Kargar, a graduate student researcher, is measuring the acoustic phonon dispersion in the semiconductor nanowires in UCR's Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center,...
Hazardous chemicals discovered in flavored e-cigarette vapor
DRI scientists used a controlled sampling system to simulate the most common vaping conditions. E-cigarette vapor was produced from each device by a four-second,...
Two types of liquid water
Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Oxford University’s Laura Maestro and her colleagues in Italy, Mexico, Spain and the USA, explain how the...
Australian continent shifts with the seasons, study finds
Fourteen GPS stations across Australia show the direction of the continent's shift from month to month.Credit: Shin-Chan Han
Australia shifts and tilts back and forth...
Your birth year predicts your odds if flu pandemic were to strike
A 3-D print of influenza virus. The virus surface (yellow) is covered with proteins called hemagglutinin (blue) and neuraminidase (red) that enable the virus...
Precaution and governance of emerging technologies
Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly...
World’s smallest magnifying glass makes it possible to see chemical bonds between atoms
Credit: NanoPhotonics Cambridge/Bart deNijs
For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn't be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth...
Scientists observe how quantum superpositions build up in a helium atom within femtoseconds
Two different ways the helium atom can be ionized Credit: TU Wien
In the double slit experiment, a particle travels on two different paths at...
Earth-bound instrument analyzes light from planets circling distant stars
Researchers led by Princeton scientists successfully operated a new instrument, the CHARIS spectrograph, which allows them to make detailed observations of planets orbiting distant...
NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf
This illustration depicts a newly discovered brown dwarf, an object that weighs in somewhere between our solar system's most massive planet (Jupiter) and the...
