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Tech Xplore / Carbon capture gets more flexible: New electrochemical method could lower energy use
Carbon capture is an important climate change mitigation strategy, but it faces technological barriers and can be energy-intensive and expensive. To help make necessary advances in this area, a team of MIT researchers, with ...
Tech Xplore / Ultra-thin semiconductors overcome performance limits with localized thick-contact design
As semiconductor chips become increasingly thinner, the components inside chips are locked in a fierce race to achieve the ultimate ultra-thin state. However, this has presented a structural limitation: the thinner the device, ...
Phys.org / Parental cooperation with kindergarten is most important way to support preschoolers' academic skills, study finds
Research into the academic skills of five-year-old children shows that parents' beliefs and cooperation with their kindergarten are more important than the abundance of parental activities at home in supporting the academic ...
Phys.org / Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield
Applying an external magnetic field during the synthesis of CoFe2O4 electrocatalysts triples the ammonia yield during electrocatalytic conversion. The magnetic field alters the surface states of the spinel oxide thin films, ...
Phys.org / Focus apps are failing neurodivergent minds, new research finds
In today's attention economy, social media platforms, entertainment apps and news feeds all compete for our focus.
Phys.org / Ancient oceans began suffocating millions of years before Triassic mass extinction, geologists discover
One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic extinction 201 million years ago wiped out roughly 60% of Earth's species, and scientists are still ...
Medical Xpress / The hum that only a few can perceive: Potential sources of a low-frequency sound
Some people occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn't have a clear source. An estimated 2–4% of the world's population hear this. Scientists have been trying to figure out for decades where this sound ...
Phys.org / Ancient altercations between musk turtles and alligator gar recorded in Florida's fossil record
Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the Florida Museum of Natural ...
Phys.org / Matter may entangle with light far more easily near quantum critical points
Quantum entanglement is a state in which particles are entwined with each other. In this entwined state, the properties of one particle influence the other, even when they aren't physically close to each other. This phenomenon ...
Medical Xpress / AI decodes epilepsy signals in brain waves before seizures appear
Epilepsy isn't always easy to diagnose. Seizures often don't occur during routine brain-wave recordings (EEGs), leaving doctors without the direct observation they need to make a clear diagnosis. University of Delaware researchers ...
Phys.org / Q&A: Why scientists are studying a microbe they found in a sink
Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to pollution remediation. Recently, NC State biologist Carlos Goller and former undergraduate students Pushkar ...
Phys.org / Canadian forest fires are losing their climate cooling power, says study
Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet's most climate-sensitive regions—according to new research from McMaster University, ...
