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How cigarette butts can be recycled into bricks: A step-by-step plan
Researchers have shown how industries could work together to recycle cigarette butts into bricks, in a step-by-step implementation plan for saving energy and solving...
E-beam atomic-scale 3-D ‘sculpting’ could enable new quantum nanodevices
By varying the energy and dose of tightly focused electron beams, researchers have demonstrated the ability to both etch away and deposit high-resolution nanoscale...
Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early...
It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to...
How to train a machine to see 3-D in the dark
Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new way to create an almost perfect hologram in near darkness.
Optical holograms are a...
Dust may have controlled ancient human civilization
When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the...
COVID-19 virus uses heparan sulfate to get inside cells
A molecule known as ACE2 sits like a doorknob on the outer surfaces of the cells that line the lungs. Since January 2020, researchers...
Lab discovers small ‘Cain-and-Abel’ molecule
A new bacterial molecule with the unsavory tendency to track down and kill others of its own kind has been discovered in the human...
Physicists discover new magnetoelectric effect
Electricity and magnetism are closely related: Power lines generate a magnetic field, rotating magnets in a generator produce electricity. However, the phenomenon is much...
Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fiber optical communications
Researchers at CRANN and Trinity's School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch.
When struck by successive...
Researchers trace the outlines of two cultures within science
In the world of scientific research today, there's a revolution going on—over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking...
Infinite chains of hydrogen atoms have surprising properties, including a metallic...
An infinite chain of hydrogen atoms is just about the simplest bulk material imaginable—a never-ending single-file line of protons surrounded by electrons. Yet a...