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Tech Xplore / Hydrogen-bond networks boost all-perovskite solar cell efficiency

The use of solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, has grown exponentially over the past decades. These devices are enabling the production of clean and renewable energy, which could contribute to ...

58 minutes ago in Engineering
Phys.org / Brain responses to wildlife images can forecast online engagement—and help conservation messaging

What types of photos make people reach for their wallets? New Stanford University-led research suggests that brain activity can help forecast which wildlife images will inspire people to engage online and donate to conservation ...

48 minutes ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / After four days with a robotic leg, people still misread how they walk

The way we understand the movement of our own bodies plays an important role when learning physical skills, from sports to dancing. But a new study finds this phenomenon works very differently for people learning to use robotic ...

48 minutes ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back millions of years that ...

2 minutes ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / How your posture may be fueling neck pain and headaches

If you spend hours a day looking at a computer, tablet or phone, you're not alone. But that daily habit may be quietly contributing to neck pain, headaches and even dizziness—it is a pattern neurologists are seeing more ...

Medical Xpress / Q&A: Why are a child's first 1,000 days so critical for brain building?

Year after year, government records show late summer is when most babies are born, with August as the most common birth month. That means—right now—tens of thousands of future parents are planning nursery colors, work ...

30 minutes ago in Pediatrics
Medical Xpress / Ending things on your own terms will soon be a little easier, but rural challenges remain

Victoria's Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Act came into effect in 2019. Initially erring on the side of caution, the VAD Act has recently been revised to be more accessible. While death is a sensitive topic for many, these ...

11 minutes ago in Health
Phys.org / Proton's width measured to unparalleled precision, narrowing the path to new physics

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar Maisenbacher and colleagues ...

1 hour ago in Physics
Phys.org / Double white dwarf system detected in a nearby stellar cluster

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was presented in a paper ...

1 hour ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Nanoengineers realize an on-chip excitonic hyperlens

When light passes through materials, it typically changes direction and bends in predictable ways. This change in direction, known as refraction, is caused by a change in the speed of light as it enters a new medium. In some ...

1 hour ago in Nanotechnology
Medical Xpress / A potential new lymphedema target: Clearing cholesterol deposits to reduce swelling

An international team led by National University of Singapore researchers has linked secondary lymphedema to excessive cholesterol buildup inside skin and around lymphatic vessels. Excess cholesterol deposition tracked with ...

1 hour ago in Immunology
Phys.org / Growing evidence that freshwater wildlife is impacted by microplastics

Researchers have found more evidence that microplastics are impacting freshwater wildlife in different countries around the world. A new study, led by the University of Glasgow and published in the journal Environmental Research, ...

1 hour ago in Biology