NASA catches formation of Atlantic's record-breaking 15th tropical storm

Tropical Depression 15 strengthened into a tropical storm late on Sept. 1 and was renamed Omar.…

Electromagnetic chirality: From fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena

Theoretical frameworks of chiroptical properties of electromagnetic materials and fields are reviewed. Based on these fundamentals,…

Regional variations in freshwater overconsumption

Freshwater—which falls to the earth as precipitation or exists beneath the surface as groundwater—is desperately needed…

Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits can help defend elections and democracy, study finds

With just over two months before the 2020 election, three professors at the Indiana University Kelley…

Strong fields and ultrafast motions—how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water

Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in…

A new way of modulating color emissions from transparent films

Scientists are looking at luminescent transparent films for use in energy-efficient displays (such as LED screens)…

Coronavirus: Technology helps teachers rethink distanced learning

Every teacher knows and dreads it: the look of a bored student. This school year, with…

Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature

An international team of researchers led by Kyushu University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese…

Study details how general anesthetics and 'benzos' act on receptors in the brain

As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are…

Engineers reprogram yeast cells to become microscopic drug factories

Since antiquity, cultures on nearly every continent have discovered that certain plant leaves, when chewed or…