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More than 200 million Americans could have toxic PFAS in their drinking water
A peer-reviewed study by scientists at the Environmental Working Group estimates that more than 200 million Americans could have the toxic fluorinated chemicals known...
Research shows Krebs cycle possible without metals or enzyme catalysts, offers new clues to...
Recent Furman University graduate Trent Stubbs is the author of a new study in Nature Chemistry that may fundamentally alter humanity's understanding of the origin of...
Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement
In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry...
Ultrafast camera films 3-D movies at 100 billion frames per second
In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion...
New feature found in energy spectrum of universe’s most powerful particles
Particles smaller than an atom hurtle through the universe nearly at the speed of light, blasted into space from something, somewhere, in the cosmos.
A...
Supergiant star Betelgeuse smaller, closer than first thought
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an...
Now you see it, now you don’t: Hidden colours discovered by coincidence
Scientists in Australia have stumbled across an unusual way to observe color that had previously gone unnoticed.
To create the effect, researchers attached a very...
Earth just had its hottest September on record
Unprecedented heat around the world vaulted September 2020 to the hottest September since 1880, according to scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
The...
The recipe for powerful quasar jets
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Using data from NASA's...
Astrophysics team lights the way for more accurate model of the universe
Light from distant galaxies reveals important information about the nature of the universe and allows scientists to develop high-precision models of the history, evolution...
The spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way
Once a black hole forms, its intense gravitational field produces a surface beyond which even light cannot escape, and it appears black to outsiders....
