Science X Dialog

As daycare centers and pre-kindergartens begin to reopen around the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends masks be worn by teachers, care workers and children over two years of age.

Activation of dioxygen (O2) has attracted enormous attention due to its potential for utilization of methane and applications in other selective oxidation reactions. We (Edyta Tabor, Jiri Dedecek, Kinga Mlekodaj, Zdenek Sobalik, ...

Twenty years ago, Smith and colleagues described groundwater arsenic (As) contamination in Bangladesh as the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." An estimated 60 million people were unknowingly drinking groundwater ...

In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But ...

Over 300 million years ago, our ancestors diverged from the ancestors of reptiles and began the evolutionary journey towards becoming mammals.

As the basis of the electronics industry, silicon influences most people's daily lives. The powerful Si-based devices in homes are still fabricated by an optical method: lithography. Despite decades of developments and huge ...

Time and frequency standards are a key part of technologies we have come to rely on in our daily lives, from GPS navigation and cellphone networks to the electrical power grid. The importance of these systems and the constant ...

The sharing economy could be an important part of a green recovery post-COVID-19, but additional insights are needed for policy development. We should avoid idealizing the sharing economy and ensure sustainable sharing organizations ...

Our internet connections have never been more important to us, nor have they been under such strain. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made remote working, remote socialisation, and online entertainment the norm, we have seen ...

Cancer is one of the most debilitating diseases in the world, affecting hundreds of thousands of people every year. In the United States, cancer is the second-highest leading cause of death. Further, breast cancer affects ...

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six meters long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human.

Imagine a time in the future when all operations are performed by robots acting independently of people: You fall one day and break your ankle, and are told by your doctor that you need surgery. A robot carries out the operation. ...