Commonly known as “forever chemicals,” PFAS are notorious for persisting in the environment and in our…
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New water treatment method can generate green energy
Researchers from ICIQ in Spain have designed micromotors that move around on their own to purify…
Laser pulse compression by a density gradient plasma for exawatt to zettawatt lasers
A new method of creating laser pulses, more than 1,000 times as powerful as those currently…
Researchers reveal that Earth's surface water can penetrate deep into the planet, transforming core's outer layer
A few decades ago, seismologists imaging the deep planet identified a thin layer, just over a…
Researchers obtain evidence for nanoflares heating coronal loops
Researchers from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the evolution of separated…
Shedding new light on sugars, the 'dark matter' of cellular biology
Scientists at Université de Montréal’s Department of Chemistry have developed a new fluorogenic probe that can…
ALMA observations shed more light on molecular clouds associated with supernova remnant LHA 120-N49
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has observed a supernova…
Using eclipses to calculate the transparency of Saturn’s rings
An illustration of the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A Lancaster University Ph.D. student has…
Fungi's secrets for surviving a hypersaline environment
Many organisms have evolved to survive in some of the Earth’s harshest conditions, tolerating freezing temperatures,…
Virus discovery is new ammunition for tackling 'germ warfare' in humans
An international research team has identified potential new ‘weapons’ in the ‘arms race’ for new antibiotics…