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Powerful graphene hybrid material for highly efficient supercapacitors
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor....
In kefir, microbial teamwork makes the dream work
To make kefir, it takes a team. A team of microbes.
That's the message of new research from EMBL and Cambridge University's Patil group and...
Reawakened geyser does not foretell Yellowstone volcanic eruptions, study shows
When Yellowstone National Park's Steamboat Geyser -- which shoots water higher than any active geyser in the world -- reawakened in 2018 after three...
Novel approach shows promise for overcoming the bottleneck of blue emission in displays using...
Using a new combination of emitter molecules, researchers in Japan have demonstrated the promise of a novel approach to finally overcome a major challenge...
Why do men have to wait for ’round 2′?
If you type into a search engine—"why do men have to wait before having sex again?"—the results will include many references to prolactin. This...
Soil moisture exerts a negative feedback on surface water availability in drylands: study
New Columbia Engineering study -- first to investigate the long-term effect of soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks in drylands -- finds that soil moisture exerts a...
Researchers report new state of matter described as ‘liquid glass’
Discovery of liquid glass sheds light on the old scientific problem of the glass transition: An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of...
Integrator: A guardian of the human transcriptome
In a joint collaboration, Danish and German researchers have characterized a cellular activity that protects our cells from potentially toxic by-products of gene expression....
First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material
Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material's atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly...
How our brains track where we and others go
As COVID cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important. Now a new UCLA study reveals how your brain...
3-D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light
Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3-D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to...
