Climate change turning US mountain lakes green with algae
Global warming is turning clear mountain lakes green in the western United States because of an increase in algae blooms "without historical precedent", researchers...
Graphene: It is all about the toppings
Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. Exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical, and optical properties have made graphene one of the most studied...
New biomaterial could shield against harmful radiation
Packing for outer space? Here's one thing you won't want to forget.
Northwestern University researchers have synthesized a new form of melanin enriched with selenium. Called...
Purifying water with the help of wood, bacteria and the sun
According to the United Nations, about one-fifth of the world's population lives in areas where water is scarce. Therefore, technologies to produce clean water...
Research: Crop plants are taking up microplastics
Microplastics (MPs), i.e., tiny plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length, can now be found throughout the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems, and...
Plate tectonics research rewrites history of Earth’s continents
Curtin University-led research has found new evidence to suggest that the Earth's first continents were not formed by subduction in a modern-like plate tectonics...
Shock waves from stellar explosions take preferential direction
In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by researchers at École Polytechnique have paved the way to unraveling the mystery as...
The spin state story: Observation of the quantum spin liquid state in novel material
Aside from the deep understanding of the natural world that quantum physics theory offers, scientists worldwide are striving to bring forth a technological revolution...
The human brain: not just large but finely shaped
Large brains have long differentiated humans and primates from other mammals and there is a clear evidence that brain mass increased through time.
Now a...
Applying rock dust to croplands could absorb up to 2 billion tonnes of CO2...
Adding crushed rock dust to farmland could draw down up to two billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air per year and...
A ‘regime shift’ is happening in the Arctic Ocean, scientists say
Scientists at Stanford University have discovered a surprising shift in the Arctic Ocean. Exploding blooms of phytoplankton, the tiny algae at the base of...
