‘Frozen’ copper behaves as noble metal in catalysis: study
As a non-noble metal, copper oxidizes more easily to a positive valence (Cu+ or Cu2+) than same-family elements Au or Ag. In general, this...
Bees can count with just four nerve cells in their brains
Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University...
Strong interactions produce a dance between light and sound
Light and high-frequency acoustic sound waves in a tiny glass structure can strongly couple to one another and perform a dance in step.
A team...
Stellar corpse reveals clues to missing stardust
Everything around you – your desk, your laptop, your coffee cup – in fact, even you – is made of stardust, the stuff forged...
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
It's happened before, and it could happen again.
Tens of thousands of years ago, a giant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by...
‘Kondo metamagnet’ is first in a family of eccentric quantum crystals
There's an oddball in most families, but Rice University physicist Emilia Morosan has discovered an entire clan of eccentric compounds that could help explain...
Baby star’s fiery tantrum could create the building blocks of planets
A massive stellar flare on a baby star has been spotted by University of Warwick astronomers, shedding light on the origins of potentially habitable...
Seeds of giant galaxies formed in the early universe
Modern galaxies show a wide diversity, including dwarf galaxies, irregular galaxies, spiral galaxies, and massive elliptical galaxies. This final type, massive elliptical galaxies, provides...
Sapphires and rubies in the sky
Researchers have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system. These so-called super-Earths were formed at high temperatures close to their...
Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning
Being a gigantic dinosaur presented some challenges, such as overheating in the Cretaceous sun and frying your brain. Researchers from Ohio University and NYITCOM...
World’s smallest tic-tac-toe game board made with DNA
Move over Mona Lisa, here comes tic-tac-toe.
It was just about a year ago that Caltech scientists in the laboratory of Lulu Qian, assistant professor...
