Scientists explore aged paint in microscopic detail to inform preservation efforts

Watching paint dry may seem like a boring hobby, but understanding what happens after the paint…

Bacteria feeding on Arctic algae blooms can seed clouds

New research finds Arctic Ocean currents and storms are moving bacteria from ocean algae blooms into…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 8/29/2019

Fluid Shifts:  The crew began the first of the Fluid Shifts experiment operations known as Dilution…

How changes in land use could reduce the browning of lakes

Over the past 50 years, the water in lakes and watercourses has turned increasingly brown. The…

Scientists work on creating molecular-sized microchip elements

Modern silicon-based integrated circuits (ICs) have reached the practical limits of miniaturisation, while the use of…

Changes in ice volume control seabed methane emissions

Ice sheet dynamics of the past likely caused fault movements in the Earth’s crust, resulting in…

Theory reveals the nature of silicon carbide crystals defects

Imperfections of crystal structure, especially edge dislocations of an elongated nature, deeply modify basic properties of…

Plant diversity and endemism in China: Unreachable locations and diverse microclimates

A new issue of the scholarly, open-access and peer-reviewed journal PhytoKeys focuses on the Chinese biodiversity…

Global study reveals most popular marketing metrics

Satisfaction is the most popular metric for marketing decisions around the world, according to a new…

Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from…