Climate change is altering terrestrial water availability
The amount and location of available terrestrial water is changing worldwide. An international research team led by ETH Zurich has now proved for the...
Face coverings made from layered cotton fabric likely slow the spread of COVID-19 better...
Researchers have completed a new study of how well a variety of natural and synthetic fabrics filter particles of a similar size to the...
Team develops method for trapping elusive electrons
Graphene's unique 2-D structure means that electrons travel through it differently than in most other materials. One consequence of this unique transport is that...
Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in.
The asteroid, which...
Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon
A scientist might want to do cartwheels upon making a discovery, but this time the discovery itself relies on cartwheels.
Researchers at Rice University have...
South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: study
The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean...
Nanotechnology applied to medicine: The first liquid retina prosthesis
Research at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has led to the revolutionary development of an artificial liquid retinal prosthesis to counteract...
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes
Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn't come as a big surprise to Rice University physicists. But it got their attention when that...
Anammox bacteria generate energy from wastewater while taking a breath
A type of anaerobic bacteria responsible for more than 50 percent of nitrogen loss from marine environments has been shown to use solid-state matter...
Soft coral garden discovered in Greenland’s deep sea
A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using...
First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b
Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest...
