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Tech Xplore / Quantifying compounds in biogas for cleaner energy
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new analytical method that can detect even tiny amounts of critical impurities in biogas. This procedure can be used even by small biogas plants without the ...
Tech Xplore / More efficient aircraft engines: Scientists reveal optimization potential
With its "Flightpath 2050" strategy, the European Commission has outlined a framework for the aviation industry that aims to reduce emissions as well as fuel and energy consumption. Among other things, this requires more ...
Phys.org / After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter
In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark matter—holding the galaxies ...
Medical Xpress / Genetic clues: Can depression risk predict MS progression?
Researchers in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences are exploring whether a person's genetic risk for depression can help predict how multiple sclerosis (MS) progresses.
Medical Xpress / Simple blood test formula identifies patients at high risk of liver cancer
A new scoring system using common clinical parameters accurately identifies chronic liver disease patients with a significantly increased risk of developing liver cancer. This tool acts as a universal predictor, helping doctors ...
Phys.org / Urban bats avoid street lights when commuting between their roosts and foraging grounds
Some bat species seek shelter during the day in the attics of large, mostly historic buildings within human settlements, even though they forage for insects at night in the dark surrounding countryside.
Phys.org / Trained to serve: Service dogs' roles are expanding to help more people
In short order, Teddy—a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 3-year-old yellow Lab—punched a wall button with his nose, yanked a rope to open a kitchen cabinet door and tugged a walker across the floor.
Phys.org / Desert microbes drive soil carbon sinks in arid regions, study reveals
In a new study published in New Phytologist on Nov. 23, Prof. Zeng Fanjiang's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has identified the key pathway driving the soil carbon ...
Phys.org / Yes, the universe can expand faster than light
An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel from them over to here, ...
Phys.org / Why refugees in Australia still face barriers to good jobs
Humanitarian migrants (refugees) in Australia remain significantly less likely to be employed than non-humanitarian migrants, even after five years of resettlement, largely due to employer discrimination rather than any shortfall ...
Phys.org / Is the universe Infinite?
The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond our observable horizon.
Phys.org / Africa's forests have switched from absorbing to emitting carbon, new study finds
New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.
