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Research shows black plastics could create renewable energy
Research from Swansea University has found how plastics commonly found in food packaging can be recycled to create new materials like wires for electricity—and...
Australian ants prepared for ‘Insect Armageddon’
Researchers studied ants in the Simpson Desert for 22 years and found that local changes in climate, such as long-term increases in rainfall, combined...
Researchers build transistor-like gate for quantum information processing – with qudits
Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its building...
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
When NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launched into space in April 2018, it did so with a specific goal: to search the universe for...
Breakthrough material could lead to cheaper, more widespread solar panels and electronics
Imagine printing electronic devices using a simple inkjet printer—or even painting a solar panel onto the wall of a building.
Such technology would slash the...
Megadrought caused mega biodiversity loss
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have painstakingly reconstructed the nation's 'once in a century drought' in the early 1900s, revealing that it...
Small fragments of carbon-rich asteroids too fragile to survive atmospheric entry
Ryugu and other asteroids of the common "C-class" consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore...
Effectiveness of using natural enemies to combat pests depends on surroundings
When cabbage looper moth larvae infest a field, sustainable growers will often try to control the pests by releasing large numbers of predators, such...
Artificial intelligence designs metamaterials used in the invisibility cloak
Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring materials, and they are best known as materials for invisibility cloaks...
Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time
A new collaborative study, led by the Natural History Museum and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has extracted ancient DNA from the...
Stonehenge may have been built using lard
Pig fat could have been used to grease the sledges used to transport the massive stones of Stonehenge into position, new analysis by archaeologists...
