Engineers have found that porous types of wood from trees like poplar and pine can greatly…
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Volatility surprises arise in removing excess hydrogen
Sometimes during catalytic hydrogenation, the partially hydrogenated products become volatile, melting and evaporating away before they…
Gut microbes can protect against high blood pressure
Microbes living in your gut can help protect against the effects of a high-salt diet, according…
Rising inequality charted across millennia
Researchers have found that the arc of prehistory bends towards economic inequality. In the largest study…
Potential mediator for social memory formation
The ability to form long-term social memories is essential for remembering faces and developing social bonds.…
Tuning the optical, photocatalytic properties of so-called carbon dots
The optical and photocatalytic properties of so-called carbon dots can be precisely tuned by controlling the…
After cooking, biofortified corn and eggs retain nutrient needed to prevent blindness
Fortified and biofortified foods are at the forefront of efforts to combat vitamin A deficiency worldwide.…
How a tiny sea animal feeds itself, and the ocean
Dime-sized ocean organisms thought to graze on any particles in their path are actually picky eaters,…
Off track: How storms will veer in a warmer world
The dry, semi-arid regions are expanding into higher latitudes, and temperate, rainy regions are migrating poleward.…
Amazon’s recovery from forest losses limited by climate change
Deforested areas of the Amazon Basin have a limited ability to grow new trees because of…