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Phys.org / Solar energy transforms polystyrene waste into valuable chemicals using sulfur
Turning waste into wealth may no longer be just a marketing slogan, as a team of researchers in China has found an eco-friendly way to do exactly that. The abundant sunlight our planet receives was put to use for transforming ...
Phys.org / The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight
Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts.
Phys.org / Nanoengineered spintronic device can store data in four different ways
Over the past decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly smaller devices that can store information reliably, even when they are not powered on. A promising type of non-volatile memory device ...
Phys.org / Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience
It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, suggesting that neurons ...
Medical Xpress / Changes in pace of epigenetic clocks over time may help predict mortality risk
The age on your driver's license may not be the same age as the cells in your body. Scientists use something called an epigenetic clock, which looks at certain chemical tags in DNA to measure your biological age, or how fast ...
Phys.org / Carbon nanotube 'black paint' absorbs terahertz radiation to cut 6G interference
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, have created an important building block for future 6G communication technology, which will make wireless data transfer at superior ...
Medical Xpress / Smartwatch and blood test data combine to better predict insulin resistance and diabetes
Around 20–40% of the general population are estimated to have insulin resistance—a condition where insulin begins to be less effective in the body, and glucose regulation becomes more difficult. Eventually, this can lead ...
Phys.org / Using cow dung for sustainable carbon dioxide capture
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges in the present times. Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere are a major factor contributing to this phenomenon. Activities such as the ...
Tech Xplore / AI chatbots' tendency to always agree may reinforce delusions in vulnerable users
The integration of large language model-based AI chatbots into multiple facets of our everyday lives has opened us up to advantages that would have been considered impossible even a decade ago. The same development has, however, ...
Phys.org / Scientists create a new state of matter at room temperature using light and nanostructures
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by engineering how light and matter interact inside a nanoscale device. The work, published in ...
Phys.org / Scientists discover new heavy proton-like particle at CERN
Scientists from the University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new subatomic particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The particle, known as the Ξcc⁺ (Xi‑cc‑plus), is a new type ...
Medical Xpress / Why some moments endure: Episodic memory encoding fluctuates with brain's theta rhythms
For almost a century, psychologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand how humans memorize different types of information, ranging from knowledge or facts to the recollection of important events. Past studies ...
