‘Molecular glue’ makes perovskite solar cells dramatically more reliable over time
A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy...
Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics
The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920's, is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics. In the quantum world, particles...
Sharks use Earth’s magnetic fields to guide them like a map
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched....
Full Space Station Mission Simulation Completed by Boeing’s Starliner System
Space Station Mission Simulation is a success. Past years were not good for Boeing at all. The company's flagship airliner 737 Max series of...
Yes, you can have more than 150 friends: New study deconstructs Dunbar’s number
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as "Dunbar's number"—that the architecture of the...
Long-term monitoring shows successful restoration of mining-polluted streams
Many miles of streams and rivers in the United States and elsewhere are polluted by toxic metals in acidic runoff draining from abandoned mining...
A physics perspective on wound healing
In material physics understanding how systems interact across the interfaces separating them is of central interest. But can physical models clarify similar concepts in...
New bonobo genome fine tunes great ape evolution studies
Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the...
Humans weren’t always agents of destruction when arriving on uninhabited islands
An international team of researchers led by Griffith University discovered the arrival of ancient humans to uninhabited islands doesn't always lead to widespread extinctions...
The oldest human burial in Africa uncovered
Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behavior, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous. Therefore, little...
Biologists discover a trigger for cell extrusion
For all animals, eliminating some cells is a necessary part of embryonic development. Living cells are also naturally sloughed off in mature tissues; for...
