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Nitrogen and Argon Plasma Improves Performance of Carbon-Based Supercapacitor Electrodes
Image. A colored micrograph showing unmodified carbon nanowalls as seen with a scanning electron microscope. Credit: Stanislav Elvashin....
3 days ago


3D-Printed Skin as an Alternative to Animal Testing
3D-printed structure made of optimised hydrogel. Image source: Manisha Sonthalia - Vellore Institute of Technology A research team from...
3 days ago

New Dinosaur Found in Portugal Expands the Diversity of the Iberian Jurassic Park
A research team from the NOVA School of Science and Technology | NOVA FCT, in partnership with Spain’s Universidad Nacional de Educación...
4 days ago


Carnivoran mammals fossil unearthed in Himalaya could reveal new details about animal evolution
A team of researchers, including Dr. Steven Jasinski from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU), has published a new study...
4 days ago


Japanese scientists develop new plastic-like materials that fully degrade in the sea
Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its structure and...
4 days ago


Breakthrough method could shield quantum information from noise, lead to stable quantum computers
Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, in partnership with Huzhou University in China, have...
5 days ago

US Space Force selects Gravitics for $60M STRATFI to showcase, fly Orbital Carrier
The Orbital Carrier is engineered to station multiple maneuverable spacecraft in orbit, allowing for swift responses to potential...
6 days ago


US scientists turn CO2 into solid material that could make concrete and cement more sustainable
The researchers created solid materials that could be used in concrete as a substitute for sand and/or gravel. Or they could be used to...
6 days ago


Chinese scientists develop Doppler Heterodyne Wind Imager that acquires first in-orbit interferograms
DWI body part. (Image by XIOPM) ​Researchers at the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of...
Apr 10

From Microbes to Complex Cells: Tracing the Origins of Life
An artist’s depiction of an Asgard archaeon, based on cryo-electron tomography data: the cell body and appendages feature thread-like...
Apr 10

SpaceX Dragon Successfully Docks at ISS Carrying Four Crew-10 Astronauts
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov arrived at the...
Apr 2

New plastic-like materials that dissolve in the sea developed
Artistic rendering of the new plastic. Cross linked salt bridges visible in the plastic outside the seawater give it its structure and...
Apr 2

Researchers Create High-Performance Ceramic Powders with Archimedean Shapes for Next-Gen Heat Shields
Boride Ceramic Particle Growth Process Schematic (Image by WANG Zhen) A research team led by Prof. HU Xiaoye from the Hefei Institutes of...
Mar 23

Boston Metal Celebrates Historic Commissioning Run of MOE Green Steel Cell
Boston Metal is proud to announce a significant milestone in our work to scale steel decarbonization technology that will drive real...
Mar 23

New computer code could lead to simpler, less costly stellarators for fusion power
An artist’s interpretation of how a new computer code called QUADCOIL refines the design of stellarator fusion machines. (Illustration...
Mar 14


Scientists discover genes to grow bigger tomatoes and eggplants
Johns Hopkins scientists say the innovation could bring 'new fruits, foods, and flavors' to an expanded global agricultural marketplace...
Mar 14


NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon
An artist’s concept of the LuGRE payload on Blue Ghost and its three main records in transit to the Moon, in lunar orbit and on the...
Mar 9


NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission
An artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager probes. The twin spacecraft launched in 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The...
Mar 8


Soft Actuators, Smart Sensors: Innovative Sensor Allows Real-Time Monitoring of Complex Systems
Fluidic Elastomer Actuators (FEAs) are lightweight and flexible systems, crucial in robotics and biomedical devices, with challenges in...
Mar 2

Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
First image captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, taken shortly after confirmation of a successful landing at Mare Crisium on...
Mar 2

The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams 
The way we communicate has evolved significantly over the years. From instant messaging to video calls, technology has continuously...
Mar 1

Amazon Web Services announces a new quantum computing chip
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Â announced Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip that can reduce the costs of implementing quantum error...
Feb 28

Researchers Reveal Stratified Kinematics of AGN Broad-Line Regions by Multi-line Reverberation Mapping
Figure 1: Light curves and CCF results for KUG 1141+371 (left) and UGC 3374 (right). Subplots (a)-(f) show the light curves for...
Feb 27


Fungal Allies: Hidden Key to Soil Carbon Storage in Grasslands
Typical steppe ecosystem dominated by Stipa grandis and Leymus chinensis in the Xilin River basin, Inner Mongolia, China (Image by BAI...
Feb 26

Giant ice bulldozers: how ancient glaciers helped life evolve
New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth’s surface and...
Feb 26

High-throughput Computing and In Situ Technologies Boost Atomic Nanomaterials Development
In-situ XAFS technology combined with DFT computational simulation to explore the microscopic dynamic evolution of electrochemical...
Feb 26

Observing triplets of weak bosons
A three-vector-boson event recorded by ATLAS, with one W boson decaying to an electron and a neutrino, one W boson decaying to a muon and...
Feb 24

A bestiary of exotic hadrons
A simplified visualisation of the 23 exotic hadrons discovered so far at the LHC. Each particle contains at least one charm quark and a...
Feb 24

Optical fibre link to make CERN more on time than ever
An optical fibre link to the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory will assist in precise measurements of the properties of...
Feb 24

New Microscope Can Image, At Once, the Full 3D Orientation & Position of Molecules in Cells
The polarized diSPIM, constructed in the Shroff lab at NIH after the idea was conceived at the MBL. Liquid crystals used for polarized...
Feb 24

Germanium detectors help ORNL physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe
The FRIB Decay Station initiator, shown in this computer rendering, measures the decays of exotic isotopes at FRIB. Credit: Gary...
Feb 23


Terabytes of data in a millimeter crystal
Researchers in the lab of Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong of the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including postdoctoral...
Feb 21


Lunar rocks help scientists pinpoint when the moon crystallized
An artist’s illustration of what the partly molten moon might have looked like (Illustration courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)....
Feb 21


Scientists track sea ice loss with earthquake sensors
Scientists Jui-Chun Freya Chen and Owen Kirkham set up seismic monitoring equipment on the Milne Ice Shelf in Nunavut, Canada in 2024. A...
Feb 21


UChicago scientists make major advance in quantum sound
Photo courtesy of Cleland Lab Entanglement linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the...
Feb 21

Researcher Creates New Math Model To Forecast Commodity Prices
A researcher at The University of Texas at Dallas has developed a mathematical model that uses events described in news articles to...
Feb 20


New technology could quash QR code phishing attacks
The ubiquitous QR (quick response) codes that appear on everything from parking pay stations to soda cans and promotional flyers have...
Feb 20


Waste to wealth: Pomelo peel can be used for electricity generation and sensing devices
The thick, white peel of a pomelo fruit can be used to generate electricity, a University of Illinois study shows. Pomelo is a large...
Feb 20

New technique to detect dark matter using atomic clocks and lasers
Researchers say the study brings scientists closer to understanding one of the most elusive and fundamental components in the universe....
Feb 19


DARPA selects two discrete utility-scale quantum computing approaches for evaluation
Following extensive technical analysis with an independent verification and validation team, DARPA has selected and is in negotiations...
Feb 19


X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials
Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation,...
Feb 19


A camera that can identify objects at the speed of light
UW ECE and Physics Professor Arka Majumdar and his students have collaborated with Princeton University to build a new type of compact...
Feb 19


Chinese Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Terahertz Wave Study
A Chinese research team has developed a novel terahertz wave polarization modulator that can be used in multiple fields such as...
Feb 17


Chinese Scientists Advance Development of High-energy Underwater Neutrino Telescope
Chinese scientists have successfully launched a detector prototype for the High-energy Underwater Neutrino Telescope (HUNT) into the...
Feb 17


Scientists Synthesize High-Conductivity 2D Conducting Polymers
An international team of researchers has synthesized a multilayer-stacked two-dimensional polyaniline crystal, achieving unique metallic...
Feb 17


Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones
The gemstone spinel, known for its vibrant colors resembling gems like rubies and sapphires, has now been shown to be capable of storing...
Feb 2

Riding the quantum Kelvin wave
Lord Kelvin theorized in 1880 that stimulating a thin vortex line would produce a helical deformation, later known as a Kelvin wave....
Feb 1


The new "nano-oscillator" that explores the boundary between classical and quantum physics
An article published in the scientific journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary...
Feb 1

Breakthrough could enable diamond transistors for high-power applications
A landmark development led by researchers from the University of Glasgow could help create a new generation of diamond-based transistors...
Feb 1


Startup Xanadu hits quantum computing milestone: The Globe and Mail
Xanadu Quantum Technologies, a startup founded by former University of Toronto post-doctoral researcher Christian Weedbrook, has reached...
Jan 26
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