Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust
Stars have life cycles. They're born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other...
Atomic tuning on cobalt enables an eightfold increase of hydrogen peroxide production
IBS scientists and their colleagues have recently report an ultimate electrocatalyst that addresses all of the issues that trouble H2O2 production. This new catalyst comprising...
High temperatures due to global warming will be dramatic even for tardigrades
Global warming, a major aspect of climate change, is already causing a wide range of negative impacts on many habitats of our planet. It...
Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control over transparency
In the quantum realm, under some circumstances and with the right interference patterns, light can pass through opaque media.
This feature of light is more than a...
How the solar system got its ‘Great Divide,’ and why it matters for life...
Scientists, including those from the University of Colorado Boulder, have finally scaled the solar system's equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range.
In a study published...
Influential electrons? Physicists uncover a quantum relationship
A team of physicists has mapped how electron energies vary from region to region in a particular quantum state with unprecedented clarity. This understanding...
Inside story on cassowary evolution
One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, has a simple throat structure similar to the fellow Australian emu. Now new research confirms...
‘Green methane’ from artificial photosynthesis could recycle CO2
A new artificial photosynthesis approach uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into methane, which could help make natural-gas-powered devices carbon neutral.
Methane is the main...
Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites with no need for huge ovens or autoclaves
A modern airplane's fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry. Once these layers...
A protein called Sestrin might be responsible for many of the benefits of a...
Whether it be a brisk walk around the park or high intensity training at the gym, exercise does a body good. But what if...
Can solar geoengineering mitigate both climate change and income inequality?
New research from the University of California San Diego finds that solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth's surface—may reduce income...
