Fungi-produced pigment shows promise as semiconductor material
Researchers at Oregon State University are looking at a highly durable organic pigment, used by humans in artwork for hundreds of years, as a...
Research shows dogs prefer to eat fat, and cats surprisingly tend toward carbs
Dogs gravitate toward high-fat food, but cats pounce on carbohydrates with even greater enthusiasm, according to research into the dietary habits of America's two...
Researchers use artificial intelligence to identify, count, describe wild animals
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique called deep learning can...
Physicists devise method to reveal how light affects materials
Physicists developed a way to determine the electronic properties of thin gold films after they interact with light. Nature Communications published the new method,...
Research illuminates inaccuracies in radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating is a key tool archaeologists use to determine the age of plants and objects made with organic material. But new research shows...
New insight into Earth’s crust, mantle and outer core interactions
A new study by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Universities of Lancaster and Oslo, sheds light on a longstanding question that...
Detecting the birth and death of a phonon
Phonons are discrete units of vibrational energy predicted by quantum mechanics that correspond to collective oscillations of atoms inside a molecule or a crystal....
Researchers devise new way to make light interact with matter
A new way of enhancing the interactions between light and matter, developed by researchers at MIT and Israel's Technion, could someday lead to more...
Alien apocalypse: Can any civilization make it through climate change?
In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of civilization is one of humanity's most urgent tasks. But...
Physicists use terahertz flashes to uncover state of matter hidden by superconductivity
Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers have used ultrafast spectroscopy to...
Photoexcited graphene puzzle solved
Light detection and control lies at the heart of many modern device applications, such as smartphone cameras. Using graphene as a light-sensitive material for...
