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This hydrogen fuel machine could be the ultimate guide to self-improvement
Three years ago, scientists at the University of Michigan discovered an artificial photosynthesis device made of silicon and gallium nitride (Si/GaN) that harnesses sunlight...
Lightning strikes will more than double in Arctic as climate warms
In 2019, the National Weather Service in Alaska reported spotting the first-known lightning strikes within 300 miles of the North Pole. Lightning strikes are...
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...
