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Scientists have discovered that tiny, sharply curved wrinkles in graphene can dramatically alter its electrical behavior, creating surprisingly strong charge separation. The finding suggests future el...
Hatty Willmoth, Sci FocusTofu has been crowned the prince of protein by a
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.
Jeremy Hsu, Ars TechThe first flight of the largest battery-electric aircraft to take to the skies lasted nearly half an hour while costing just $5 of electricity. That aviation feat comes...
Jennifer Byrne, Popular ScienceThere's a video on YouTube, filmed back in 2019, where100 random people...
John S. Tregoning, PLOS BiologyIn 1963, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Peter Medawar presented a controversial idea on BBC radio, that the scientific paper was a fraud [
Elizabeth Howell, Space.comSpherical "Aerobots" may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says is one of the most Earthlike in our solar system.
Tim Newcomb, Pop MechTucked under the cornerstone of a church built at the founding of the Spanish colony Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, a ceremonial silver coin remained in the exact spot it...
Peter Dockrill, SciAlIt's estimated that aboutone in four adults...
Ariel Bleicher, IEEE SpectrumIn a tranquil Boston suburb, on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to woods, a crane lowers an enormous electrode into a...
Rachel Nowak, Knowable MagazineThe 15-year-olds were far from happy when Australia banned them from social media. No more Insta, no more Snapchat, no more TikTok. From midnight December 10,...
Michelle Starr, Sci AlWhen you think about it, it seems remarkable that humanity is still here.Over the last few hundred thousand years, the world has changed a lot, sometimes in...
Eldrid Borgan, ScienceNorwayMeat allergy is becoming more common in several parts of the world,according...
Mary Randolph, Sci AmericanThe tornadoes aren't in Kansas anymore, Toto; they're in Illinois.On Tuesday six
Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta MagazineIn some ways, we know aging when we see it, from the graying of hair to the wrinkling of skin to declines in motor, sensory, and cognitive capacities. Yet...
EurekAlert!Some people seem to age slower than others, looking and acting like 45 at 60. Others appear to have gotten ahead of the calendar. But why is that, and what is actually happening...
Rutgers UniversityMeasuring waist size may be one of the simplest and most effective ways to detect obesity-related health risks, according to a study by Rutgers Health...
EurekAlert!For astronauts in space, constipation is a well-known problem. But why this happens has long been unclear.Now, a new study from the University of Copenhagen in...
EPFLWhen you blow air across the neck of a bottle, you're not just producing a pleasant tone: you're also demonstrating a phenomenon called Helmholtz resonance. This occurs when...