Ocean circulation in North Atlantic at its weakest
A study led by Drs. Christelle Not and Benoit Thibodeau from the Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, The...
Researchers achieve highest certified efficiency of organic solar cells to date
Materials scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have achieved a new record in the performance of organic, non-fullerene-based, single-junction solar cells. Using a series of...
Complex systems help explain how democracy is destabilised
Complex systems theory is usually used to study things like the immune system, global climate, ecosystems, transportation or communications systems.
But with global politics becoming...
Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types of microbes, many of which use...
Disordered materials could be hardest, most heat-tolerant carbides
Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with...
A water treatment breakthrough, inspired by a sea creature
Inspired by Actinia, a sea organism that ensnares its prey with its tentacles, a team of researchers has developed a method for efficiently treating...
Climate change could lead to threefold increase in powerful storms across Europe and North...
Powerful storms that cause extreme weather conditions such as flooding across Europe and North America, with the potential to wreak social and economic havoc,...
How ancient viruses got cannabis high
World's first cannabis chromosome map reveals the plant's evolutionary past and points to its future as potential medicine.
THC and CBD, bioactive substances produced by...
Paving the way: An accelerator on a microchip
Electrical engineers in the accelerator physics group at TU Darmstadt have developed a design for a laser-driven electron accelerator so small it could be...
Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa
New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several...
For ants, unity is strength — and health
When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood...
