Materials scientists reveal pathway for designing optical materials with specialized properties
While we usually think of disorder as a bad thing, a team of materials science researchers led by Rohan Mishra, from ...
White House environmental official tours PFAS-site in Minnesota
A member of President Joe Biden's administration stopped in the city of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, on May 6 to talk PFAS with ...
Discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea is responsible for hundreds of millions in costs
Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea. A new study from Chalmers University of ...
Unraveling isopods' culinary secrets and why it matters for ecosystems
New research on desert isopods' dietary preferences is the revelation of the complex factors influencing their food choices.
Contradictory thoughts lead to more moderate attitudes, psychologists find
Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and the University of Hohenheim present rhetorical tools that ...
Researchers explain how following the dietary guidelines is smart—for you and the climate
For the first time, Norwegian researchers have calculated what effect the average Norwegian diet has on the climate and ...
Why parrots sometimes adopt—or kill—each other's babies
Infanticide and adoption in the animal kingdom have long puzzled scientists. While both males and females of many species are ...
Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch
The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off just two hours before launch after a new ...
New accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar discovered
Astronomers report the discovery of a new pulsar using the Spektr-RG space observatory. The newfound object, designated SRGA J144459.2−604207 (or SRGA J1444 for short), turns out to be a bursting ...
Accountability standards based on rules of democracy needed in times of rising political violence, scholar argues
When a family or group of friends sit down to play a familiar game they've played many times before, they generally don't ...
A leap toward carbon neutrality: New catalyst converts carbon dioxide to methanol
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a catalyst material known as cobalt phthalocyanine that converts ...
New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA ...