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New experiments by researchers at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester have shed more light on the gas flow through tiny, angstrom-sized channels with atomically flat walls.
Published in Nature, this new research shows that the channels...
Ice losses from Antarctica have increased global sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with two fifths of this rise (3.0 mm) coming in the last five years alone.
The findings are from a major climate assessment known as the...
What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in ten billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively charged particle known as a kaon into another positively charged particle called a pion and...
Engineers at Rice University's Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Center have found a catalyst that cleans toxic nitrates from drinking water by converting them into air and water.
The research is available online in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Catalysis.
"Nitrates...
The researchers from right to left: Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre Maurer, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, from the Distributed Programming Laboratory, EPFL.
Credit: ©Alain Herzog/EPFL
In artificial intelligence (AI), machines carry out specific actions, observe the outcome, adapt their behavior accordingly, observe the...
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new hybrid polymer with removable supramolecular compartments, shown in this molecular model.
Credit: Mark E. Seniw, Northwestern University
Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically...
Drexel materials scientist Christopher Li, PhD, reports a new way for making polymer nanobrushes that equates to growing a lawn by rolling out sod instead of planting seeds.
Credit: Drexel University
You might not be aware of it, but invisible carpets...
An artist's conception of a commercial hydrogen production plant that uses sunlight to split water in order to produce clean hydrogen fuel.
Credit: University of Colorado Boulder
A University of Colorado Boulder team has developed a radically new technique that uses...
The large red blob (left) indicates an increase in the timing, or synchronization, between brain waves measured over the medial frontal cortex and right lateral prefrontal cortex. This enhanced timing across brain regions specifically occurred at low frequencies, right...
New research suggests that people are not 'born believers'.
Credit: © enterlinedesign / Fotolia
Religious beliefs are not linked to intuition or rational thinking, according to new research by the universities of Coventry and Oxford.
Previous studies have suggested...
