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Superconductors are super resilient to magnetic fields
A researcher at the University of Tsukuba has offered a new explanation for how superconductors exposed to a magnetic field can recover, without loss of energy, to their previous state...
Cadmium levels in waste pickers 'four times higher'
Waste pickers exposed to discarded electronics, aluminum and metal cans have up to four times higher levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium in their blood than the wider population,...
Alberta community's concerns about wind farm echo familiar challenges of Canada's energy transition
Residents of a central Alberta community say they have not been treated fairly by a power company that wants to build a wind farm in their community. It's a dispute...
Lou Brock, Cardinals legend and Hall of Famer, dies at 81
St. Louis Cardinals icon and Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who helped guide the club to two World Series titles in the 1960s, has died at 81.
Denver to face temperature plunge from 99 to 32 in one day
Residents in Denver are set to experience summer and winterlike temperatures within the span of just 24 hours.
Russian aircraft intercepts Norwegian plane in international airspace
A Russian military leader said Saturday that Russian fighter planes intercepted a Norwegian patrol aircraft over the Barents Sea for the third time in a row.
Lighting the way for new solar fuels science
A quintet of Yale researchers — Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Nilay Hazari, Patrick Holland, James Mayer, and Hailiang Wang — are among the principal investigators (PI) for the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
Unexpected electrical current could stabilize fusion reactions
Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department...
Painting with light: Novel nanopillars precisely control intensity of transmitted light
By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have...
Painting with light: Novel nanopillars precisely control intensity of transmitted light
By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have...
New evidence that the quantum world is even stranger than we thought
New experimental evidence of a collective behavior of electrons to form "quasiparticles" called "anyons" has been reported by a team of scientists at Purdue University.
Morocco, Netherlands, India, UAE to buy Longbow Fire Control Radars
Longbow Limited, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, won a $164.6 million contract to equip foreign Apache helicopters with radar units.
New technology lets quantum bits hold information for 10,000 times longer than previous record
Quantum bits, or qubits, can hold quantum information much longer now thanks to efforts by an international research team. The researchers have increased the retention time, or coherence time, to...
Unexpected electrical current that could stabilize fusion reactions
Scientists have found that electrical currents can form in ways not known before. The novel findings could give researchers greater ability to bring the fusion energy that drives the sun...
Splitting water molecules for a renewable energy future
Chemists are working on energy storage and conversion research. This work is part of a new study that solves a key, fundamental barrier in the electrochemical water splitting process where...
Nanoearthquakes control spin centers in SiC
Researchers have demonstrated the use of elastic vibrations to manipulate the spin states of optically active color centers in SiC at room temperature. They show a non-trivial dependence of the...
'Floppy' atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricity
Materials scientists have uncovered an atomic mechanism that makes certain thermoelectric materials such as iron sulfide incredibly efficient near high-temperature phase transitions. The information will help fill critical knowledge gaps...
Harry Potter fans break broom boarding record online
An international group of Harry Potter fans came together virtually to break the Guinness World Record for the most people to simultaneously board a broom online.
Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers
In a recent report, Xiaolei Peng and a team of scientists in materials science and engineering at the University of Texas, U.S., and the Tsinghua University, China, developed opto-thermoelectric microswimmers...
Splitting water molecules for a renewable energy future
The future economy based on renewable and sustainable energy sources might utilize battery-powered cars, large-scale solar and wind farms, and energy reserves stored in batteries and chemical fuels. Although there...
Electric current is manipulated by light in an organic superconductor
A polarized petahertz current is driven by an ultrashort laser in an organic superconductor. This is in contrast to the common sense belief which is justified by Ohm's law, i.e.,...
'Floppy' atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricity
Materials scientists at Duke University have uncovered an atomic mechanism that makes certain thermoelectric materials incredibly efficient near high-temperature phase transitions. The information will help fill critical knowledge gaps in...
Researchers find unexpected electrical current that could stabilize fusion reactions
Electric current is everywhere, from powering homes to controlling the plasma that fuels fusion reactions to possibly giving rise to vast cosmic magnetic fields. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department...
Natural protein captures rare-earth elements better than synthetic chelators
A lanthanide-binding protein found in bacteria could extract rare-earth metals more efficiently and with less waste
Snagging the power of cyclic allene intermediates
Coupled with a catalyst, strained compounds can control chirality
A textile that can change and remember its shape
As everyone who has painstakingly straightened their hair knows, water is the enemy. Hair carefully straightened by heat will bounce back into curls the minute it touches water. Why? Because hair has shape...
Big heart, zero budget: The COVID-19 benefit filmed by stars on their phones
Danny Elfman, Mandy Moore, Darren Criss, Patti LuPone, Elisabeth Moss, Hans Zimmer, Weird Al Yankovic: The story behind a MusiCares benefit that now stands as a reminder of the earliest...
A green catalyst for pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry
Many production facilities (e.g. plastic manufacturers, pharma companies, and others) use nanocatalysts that contain palladium—an expensive component that is not sustainably produced. A chemist from RUDN University found a way...