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Laser-Etched Metal Purifies Contaminated Water Using Sunlight With Greater Than 100% Efficiency
By etching metal with ultrashort laser bursts, Rochester researchers demonstrate a way to purify water without wasting energy. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people in developed…
“Ghost” Galaxy Offers Breakthrough in Deciphering Birth of Supermassive Black Holes
Tabletop Quantum Experiment – 4000x Smaller Than Current Devices – Could Detect Gravitational Waves
Scientists Home In on Pairs of Atoms That Boost a Catalyst’s Activity
Gall Fly Outmaneuvers Host Plant in Evolutionary Game of “Spy vs. Spy”
Artificial Intelligence Predicts Which Planetary Systems Will Survive 100,000 Times Faster
Semiconducting Graphene Ribbons Developed for Electronics and Quantum Computing
Upgrades to NASA’s Massive Deep Space Station in Australia for Communications With Robotic Spacecraft
Solar Flow Battery: Single Device Generates, Stores and Redelivers Renewable Electricity From the Sun
Common Molecular Feature of Antibodies That Neutralize SARS-CoV-2 Discovered, Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Prospects
The findings support many vaccine strategies being used to tackle the new coronavirus. A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common…
Scientists Alarmed by Long-Term Effects of Insecticides on Ant Colonies
This week, scientists of the Institute of Bee Health of the University of Bern have published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Communications Biology, which…
Incredible Rare Peek at Patagonia in Winter
In southern South America, clouds often rule the skies. But in June 2020, just the right weather patterns were in place to provide a rare,…
Delirium, Brain Inflammation, Nerve Damage and Stroke Linked to COVID-19
Neurological complications of Covid-19 can include delirium, brain inflammation, stroke, and nerve damage, finds a new UCL and UCLH-led study. Published in the journal Brain,…
Hubble Space Telescope Makes a frEGGs-cellent Discovery
Galaxies are well known as the birthplaces of stars and planets thanks to the overwhelmingly large amount of dust and gas within them. Over time,…
Earth-Shaking Science at Cryogenic Temperatures: Next Generation Vibration Sensors
A cutting-edge vibration sensor may improve the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors to find the tiniest cosmic waves from the background hum of Earth’s motion….
Innovative New Device Lights Up the Way for Quantum Technologies
Researchers at CRANN and Trinity’s School of Physics have created an innovative new device that will emit single particles of light, or photons, from quantum…
Underground CUPID-Mo Experiment in Search for Theorized ‘Neutrinoless’ Particle Process
Berkeley Lab researchers are part of an international team that reports a high-sensitivity measurement by underground CUPID-Mo experiment. Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department…
Scaling Up the Quantum Chip: MIT Engineers Connect Photonics With “Artificial Atoms”
MIT engineers develop a hybrid process that connects photonics with “artificial atoms,” to produce the largest quantum chip of its type. MIT researchers have developed…