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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 [...]

Auto

What’s the Fastest Car in the World?

The Thrust SSC car is on display September 1997 in [...]

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 [...]

Auto

Why the Stick Shift Is Going Extinct

Interior detail of a Porsche 997 GT2 RS sports car [...]

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 [...]