Rice materials scientist Boris Yakobson and colleagues in Taiwan and China report in Nature on making…
Car congestion outweighs scooter scourge on city streets
‘Scooter clutter’ has been a concern amplified by media reports in urban areas where micromobility has…
New material could turn clothing into a health monitor
Researchers have reported a new material, pliable enough to be woven into fabric but imbued with…
Using molecules to draw on quantum materials
Over millennia, civilizations progressed through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Now the time has come…
Almost alien: Antarctic subglacial lakes are cold, dark and full of secrets
More than half of the planet’s fresh water is in Antarctica. While most of it is…
New insights into evolution: Why genes appear to move around
Scientists at Uppsala University have proposed an addition to the theory of evolution that can explain…
Amber specimens reveal origin of long mouthpart of scorpionflies
An international research group led by Prof. Wang Bo from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and…
Divorced parents may impact some teens' academics
Parental divorce is associated with a lower grade point average (GPA) among adolescents, with a stronger…
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site Nightingale
NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Click…
The persistence of pay inequality: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market
The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic rise in nontraditional ‘gig economy’ labor markets where workers are…