Paleopharmaceuticals from Baltic amber might fight drug-resistant infections
For centuries, people in Baltic nations have used ancient amber for medicinal purposes. Even today, infants are given amber necklaces that they chew to...
Science has not kept pace with aquaculture
Aquaculture -- the farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic animals for food -- has reached unprecedented levels of growth in recent years, but...
From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon’s interstellar journey to Earth
Carbon on Earth, the ultimate journey. We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research...
Dual-bed catalyst enables high conversion of syngas to gasoline-range liquid hydrocarbons
Gasoline, the primary transportation fuel, contains hydrocarbons with 5-11 carbons (C5-11) and is almost derived from petroleum at present.
Gasoline can also be produced from...
New mechanism enables the electrical control of the magnetization in magnetic nanodevices
The development of innovative magnetic nanodevices is one step closer to reality thanks to the observation by RIKEN physicists of a type of rotation...
A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
In a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several "grand challenges"—one of which was to find suitable materials for thermal energy storage...
Qubits composed of holes could be the trick to build faster, larger quantum computers
A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer.
Quantum computers are predicted to...
Environmental researchers uncover the story of the Amazon’s understory
For the first time, scientists know more about what trees are dominant in the overstory and the understory of the Amazon.
Freddie Draper, a postdoctoral...
A dinosaur tail vertebra leads researchers on the right track
Scientists from Mahasarakham University (Thailand) and the University of Bonn have examined the newly discovered caudal vertebrae of a spinosaurid dinosaur that could belong...
Fungi could manipulate bacteria to enrich soil with nutrients
A team of researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) has discovered a distinct group of bacteria that may help fungi and plants acquire...
How the Chicxulub impactor gave rise to modern rainforests
Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the world's climate systems. A new study published today in Science sheds light on...
