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To Limit Pollution, The Chinese Are Faced With Giving Up an Ancient Tradition
Fireworks over Beijing during 2013’s Lantern Festival Courtesy of Flickr [...]
Animals
Does Playing Games With Spiders Reduce Arachnophobia?
Spider wrestling can range from casual matches played by children [...]
Space
New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Gear Up to Search for Elusive Particle
In the heart of a new dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN [...]
The Planet
How Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Offers Solutions to California’s Wildfires
Carolyn Smith collecting beargrass in Klamath National Forest, 2015. For [...]
Mind & Body
What Makes the Nobel-Winning Breakthroughs in Immunotherapy So Revolutionary
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo win the 2018 Nobel [...]
Human behavior
The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans
Our fundamentally human social, ecological, and behavioral adaptations have, over [...]
Animals
See Stunning Images of Female Birds, Often Overlooked by Wildlife Photographers
In trying to capture the perfect image of a bird, [...]
Space
A New Experiment Hopes to Solve Quantum Mechanics’ Biggest Mystery
The TEQ experiments will attempt to induce a quantum collapse [...]
The Planet
The History of Holding Helium
This glass tube, part of the museum’s collection, once contained [...]
Mind & Body
A New Blood Test Can Determine Your Biological Clock
The test, called TimeSignature, can come within an hour and [...]
Science & Tech
Nano droplets go skiing at high temperatures
Snapshots from a PEEM movie (field of view 150 micron, [...]
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Revealing the effect of AIN surface pits on GaN remote epitaxy
Graphical Abstract. Credit: ACS Nano (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c02565 Remote epitaxy [...]
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Ultrathin nanotech promises to help tackle antibiotic resistance
Schematic illustration of BPNFs biological application and its role to [...]
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Scientists reveal twisting-untwisting-retwisting cycle of nanohelices
Left. Scanning electron microscopy images of the nanowires and nanohelices; Upper right. electron [...]
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Copper-infused nanocrystals boost infrared light conversion
(Left) A single copper-doped tungstic acid nanocrystal; (right) Atomic resolution [...]
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Team develops new gold nanocluster-rich titanium dioxide photocatalyst for the oxidative coupling of methane
Structure characterization and analysis of Au60s/TiO2. a–c, Top view SEM [...]
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Enhancing atherosclerosis diagnosis using ultrasmall calcium carbonate nanoparticles
Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Nano (2023). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c03523 Atherosclerosis is [...]
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Tiny nanocarriers could prove to be the magic bullet for acne sufferers
Credit: Nanoscale (2023). DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01789C It’s a skin disorder that [...]
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A brightly (multi)colored future for electrochromic devices shines ahead
Electrochromic films utilizing SnO2 shows marked improvement when paired with [...]
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New research signals a quantum leap for brain tumor treatment
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have discovered a new way [...]
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What Do Winemakers Do With Grape Waste?
Grape pomace, or marc, is what’s left over after the [...]
Home & Garden
Green Construction: Is it worth it?
Installing solar panels is a more costly project that will [...]
Science & Tech
Petrified Wood: A Journey From Tree to Stone
Petrified Forest National Park, located in northeast Arizona, is home [...]
Home & Garden
What’s the best day of the week for cleaning?
Cleaning your apartment takes time, but when’s the best time [...]
Science & Tech
How Deep Are the Great Lakes? And Why Are They Great?
The North American Great Lakes are Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, [...]
Auto
How to Replace Your Car’s Serpentine Belt
Modern car engines have one continuous serpentine belt in place [...]
Home & Garden
Can You Remove a Load-Bearing Wall?
If you knock out one of those beams, the whole [...]
Science & Tech
Mother Nature Says Stop Releasing Balloons
Balloons do not fly up to heaven and simply disappear. [...]
Human behavior
Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old
A fragmented painting of a pig-deer or babirusa (Babyrousa sp.) [...]
Animals
These 508-Million-Year-Old Fossils May Be Earth’s Oldest Swimming Jellyfish
An artistic reconstruction shows a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming [...]
Space
Smithsonian Curators Help Rescue the Truth From These Popular Myths
When curators gather, the topics are lively. Did Dolley Madison [...]
The Planet
Watch What Happens When A Coral Reef Can’t Get Enough Oxygen
From the surface, the havoc caused on a coral reef [...]
Mind & Body
The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid
In the late 1800s, milk and dairy products could be [...]
Human behavior
Why Do Humans Have Thumbs?
Illustration by Harry Campbell Of all the motions the hand [...]
Animals
Nile Crocodiles Recognize and React to the Sound of Crying Babies
As one Nile crocodile rests, another perks up near a [...]
Space
NASA Names Its Next Mars Rover ‘Perseverance’
Transcript Written by Jay Bennett NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, will [...]
The Planet
Drop in Greenhouse Gas Caused Global Cooling 34 Million Years Ago, Study Finds
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is causing global warming. This means [...]
Mind & Body
In Need of Cadavers, 19th-Century Medical Students Raided Baltimore’s Graves
An 1887 illustration by British artist Hablot Knight Browne of [...]