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Lithium-ion batteries have changed the world. Without the ability to store meaningful amounts of energy in a rechargeable, portable format we would have no smartphones or other personal electronic devices. The pioneers of ...

Conservationists don't always agree about the best ways to reinforce the protection of nature. Debates about it can become confrontational.

Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare "tsunami earthquake" occurs. These are mysterious because, while they're just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause disproportionately large and devastating ...

As wind and solar energy have become cheaper, they've become a more prominent and important way to generate clean electricity in most parts of the world.

Researchers from the Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin and the State University of Campinas, have ...

Hydrogel materials possess intrinsic softness, and exhibit other favorable properties of natural organic parts, like stretchability, biocompatibility, permeability and stimuli-adaptability, owing to their diversified family. ...

Scientists from the University of Twente and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France have discovered a new method to non-destructively look inside three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructures without breaking them. ...

We live in a world of networks, perhaps even more so than most people realize. Obvious examples of complex networks found in our daily lives are the network of computer systems known as the internet, railway networks and ...

The common cuckoo deploys a wide range of tricks to deceive smaller birds into raising cuckoo chicks instead of their own progeny. This is a form of parasitism: The brood parasite hijacks the parental care of the host species ...

Cortical gyrification, or the stereotypic folding pattern in the forebrain, is implicated in the development of human cognition. During evolution, the mammalian brain went through several transitions between smooth and folded ...

Researchers at Osaka Prefecture University (OPU, Japan) have developed the first prototype of macroscale, thin-film-based flexible thermal flow sensor array that can observe the flow distribution over curved surfaces through ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have taken a major step in enabling direct fabrication of hydrogel bioelectronics within tissues.