Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heat
An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a...
A molecular string phone at work
Researchers from the Department of Atomically Resolved Dynamics of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center...
Scientists create a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same time
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising...
Inspired by natural signals in living cells, researchers design artificial gas detector
A cube one-40th the size of a human red blood cell can glow when it detects flammable gas. The nanocube, designed by chemists at...
Mathematical modelling sheds new light on how continents may have formed
Life is unique to our planet. Or is it?
Central to this question is the emergence of plate tectonics, which transported oxygen and water from...
Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought
Researchers from Osaka University have made the striking discovery that multidrug-resistant bacteria may have been around longer than we thought. In findings published this...
Initial repulsion in chemical bonding does not rule out subsequent attraction
The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer formulated a metaphor called the porcupine dilemma, which explains a certain optimal distance between people. People feel alone at too...
Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities
New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery...
Engineers develop ‘blackest black’ material to date
With apologies to "Spinal Tap," it appears that black can, indeed, get more black.
MIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a material...
First water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ planet
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or 'exoplanet', known...
Why do birds migrate at night?
It was a puzzle about birds.
Migratory birds are known to rely on Earth's magnetic field to help them navigate the globe. And it was suspected that...
