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New study challenges our understanding of premature aging
Disturbances in the function of mitochondrial DNA can accelerate the ageing process in ways that are…
High thermoelectric performance in low-cost SnS0.91Se0.09 crystals
Thermoelectric materials technology can convert between heat and electricity within a materials construct, but many existing…
Two meteor showers peak this week: The Draconids and the Southern Taurids
A skywatcher’s doubleheader is on tap this week as a pair of meteor showers will peak…
A window for trap-free charge transport in organic semiconductors
Organic semiconductors, a class of carbon-based materials with optical and electronic properties, are now commonly used…
Exoplanets: tantalising search for life beyond the solar system
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics honoured Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, Swiss astronomers who proved…
A simple way to control swarming molecular machines
The swarming behavior of about 100 million molecular machines can be controlled by applying simple mechanical…
New 'supercondensers' store electric charge in textile materials
Researchers of the Alcoi campus of Valencia’s Polytechnic University (UPV) have developed new devices that store…
Axion particle spotted in solid-state crystal
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Princeton University, the…
Accidental discovery of strong and unbreakable molecular switch
An organic material that can repeatedly change shape without breaking would have many useful applications, such…