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Unique new antiviral treatment made using sugar
New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed to destroy viruses on contact and may help in the fight against viral outbreaks.
This new development from...
New study estimates the global extent of river ice loss as...
More than half of Earth's rivers freeze over every year. These frozen rivers support important transportation networks for communities and industries located at high...
Researchers learn more about teen-age T.Rex
Without a doubt, Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur in the world. The 40-foot-long predator with bone crushing teeth inside a five-foot long head are...
New study reveals higher microplastics in London air compared to other...
Researchers from King's have carried out the first study of microplastics in the atmosphere in London to determine what people within the city might...
Blazar variability
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting material. These AGN emit jets of charged particles...
Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy’s halo
Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an...
Rewriting quantum mechanics in their spare time
As students, Jussi Lindgren and Jukka Liukkonen had found one element of their quantum mechanics lectures unsatisfying. "When we were taught physics, there were...
The mysterious case of the ornamented coot chicks has a surprising...
The American coot is a somewhat drab water bird with gray and black feathers and a white beak, common in wetlands throughout North America....
Scientists have developed a new concept of mathematical modeling
A team of scientists from the Research Center "Fundamental Problems of Thermophysics and Mechanics," of Samara Polytech is engaged in the construction of new...
Replacing one gas with another helps efficiently extract methane from permafrost
Scientists from Skoltech and Heriot-Watt University proposed extracting methane by injecting flue gas into permafrost hydrate reservoirs. Since the flue gas contains carbon dioxide,...
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It's one of the six main chemical elements of life, it forms the backbone of DNA and...
