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Why do some people get flushed when they drink?
Why do some people get flushed when they drink?

Genetics are to blame for why some people get flushed after drinking alcohol. It’s more [...]

Help Name the National Zoo’s Baby Black-Footed Ferret
Help Name the National Zoo’s Baby Black-Footed Ferret

/ The National Zoo’s newest black-footed ferrets were born on April 15, 2011. Mehgan Murphy [...]

World record broken for thinnest X-ray detector ever created
World record broken for thinnest X-ray detector ever created

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists in Australia have used tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets to create [...]

An on-chip photon-counting reconstructive spectrometer with tailored cascaded detector array
An on-chip photon-counting reconstructive spectrometer with tailored cascaded detector array

Photon-counting reconstructive spectrometer. Credit: Advanced Devices & Instrumentation (2023). DOI: 10.34133/adi.0021 Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors [...]

Scientists achieve breakthrough in highly efficient electrocatalyst for clean energy
Scientists achieve breakthrough in highly efficient electrocatalyst for clean energy

The team at City University of Hong Kong develops novel catalysts with superior efficiency and [...]

The Barefoot Running Debate
The Barefoot Running Debate

Feedloader (Clickability) My husband’s favorite story to tell about his first marathon is that a [...]

Rare Breed
Rare Breed

American Laurie Marker (with Chewbaaka, a cat she raised after it was caught in a [...]

SLAC fires up the world’s most powerful X-ray laser: LCLS-II ushers in a new era of science

The newly upgraded Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the Department [...]