Plasmon-coupled gold nanoparticles useful for thermal history sensing

Researchers have demonstrated that stretching shape-memory polymers embedded with clusters of gold nanoparticles alters their plasmon-coupling,…

Forest restoration action must prioritize diversity over scale for cheaper, long-term success

Every year, 10 million hectares of forest are lost. Among efforts to revive degraded or deforested…

Shrub willow as a bioenergy crop

Renewable energy demand and consumption is at an all-time high in the United States. …

Pressure sensor with high sensitivity and linear response based on soft micropillared electrodes

In recent years, with the rapid development of flexible electronic skins, high-performance flexible tactile sensors have…

Apophis impact ruled out for the first time

New observations of asteroid Apophis – thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in…

A general approach to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Researchers developed a general methodology for the reproducible fabrication of high efficiency perovskite solar cells. …

Climate change significantly increases population displacement risk

The risk of people being forced from their homes by flooding increases by half for each…

Measurable changes in brain activity during first few months of studying a new language

A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a…

The brain area with which we interpret the world

Language, empathy, attention – as different as these abilities may be, one brain region is involved…

Dogs (not) gone wild: DNA tests show most 'wild dogs' in Australia are pure dingoes

A new dingo study collates the results from over 5000 DNA samples of wild canines across…