To make efficient hydrogen energy technology a reality—from generating hydrogen through electrolysis to next-generation chemical fuel cells—scientists need to know…
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The Garmin Vivosmart 5 is one of Garmin’s most affordable fitness trackers. It’s a band, not a big-faced watch, so…
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have watched clouds changing shape in the sky of…
A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine is the first evidence in humans that short-term lifestyle…
Purple tomatoes have been approved for sale in the US. Credit: JIC Photography/ flickr The first genetically modified (GM) food…
The white-hot river of liquid iron never stops. Every hour of the day and night, at this steel plant in…
An image of Venus overlain with spectroscopy data collected by NASA’s SOFIA observatory. If phosphine was present in the planet’s…
A faecal-transplant therapy called Rebyota has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. A single dose can prevent…
By the 2030s, the world will generate around a yottabyte of data per year—that’s 1024 bytes, or the amount that would…
A multinational team of researchers, co-led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) physicist, has found that a novel…
A cheap powder can help treat wastewater by rapidly absorbing microscopic bits of plastic pollution – and because it is…
Immunotherapy, a biotherapy that boosts the ability of the immune system to recognize and attack mutant tumor cells, has transformed…
A spacecraft equipped with a “sail” made from plasma could build up speed by repeatedly crossing the boundary at the…
A UNSW paper published recently in Nature Reviews Materials presents an exciting overview of the emerging field of 2D ferroelectric…
Astronomers estimate that roughly 85% of all the matter in the universe is dark matter, meaning only 15% of all…
Reducing redundant information to find simplifying patterns in data sets and complex networks is a scientific challenge in many knowledge…
A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a…
Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit…
University research has a legacy of doing harm to Indigenous communities. However, a new collaborative project is showing how research…
People’s diet quality improved and their abdominal obesity and insulin resistance decreased in a one-year lifestyle intervention, new findings from…
Seasons shifting: Tasmanias southern beech is Australias only native temperate deciduous tree. Credit: Shutterstock There’s a piece of gardening lore…
Hundreds of cement pillars with hooks have been deployed in the Gulf of California to snag fishing nets that threaten…
An ongoing Ebola outbreak has infected and killed dozens of people in Uganda. Health authorities in the country and the World…
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If every living thing died right now, by some estimates only around 1 percent would become fossils. Even fewer would…
Close view of Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus culture under the microscope (left) and in a culture flask (middle and right). These cells…
The mTOR protein plays a central role in cell growth, proliferation and survival. Its activity varies according to the availability…
Do people have a right to an unobstructed view of the heavens? For most of human history, such a question…
A. Euglenoids are single-cell organisms with a standard complement of internal cellular organelles for photosynthetic organisms with one to two…
The Evolution of Crime and Police Strength. Notes: The figure plots full-time equivalent police officer strength and total recorded crime…