ISS Daily Summary Report – 2/25/2020

OsteoOmics: The crew performed day 3 of 4 of the OsteoOmics media operations. Millions of Americans…

Human populations survived the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science…

Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices

A new type of battery combines negative capacitance and negative resistance within the same cell, allowing…

What Americans think about who deserves tuition-free college

Tuition-free college has gotten a lot of momentum of late. Click here for original…

The best time to harvest yams? Science says when the lower leaves turn yellow

Nigeria accounts for 60% of the world’s yam output and 74% of the total production in…

Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs

The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research…

Shining a new light on biomimetic materials

Advances in biomimicry – creating biological responses within non-biological substances – will enable synthetic materials to…

CSA contract giant leap towards launching Western into Space

Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration (Western Space) has landed a major contract from…

CaPtAs: A new noncentrosymmetric superconductor

A research group from Zhejiang University in China has found that the noncentrosymmetric compound CaPtAs is…

Synthesizing a superatom: Opening doors to their use as substitutes for elemental atoms

Scientists have demonstrated how superatoms of a desired valency, stability, and volume can be synthesized in…