When fossil fuel or biomass burns, soot—also known as black carbon—fills the air. Black carbon is…
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Sandwich catalysts offer higher activity and durability
The sandwich is a food concocted by the 18th-centutry nobles to play card games uninterrupted. Meat…
Tailored hardening of bulk metallic glass induced by 2-D gradient rejuvenation
A team at Tohoku University have perfected a new heat treatment technique with rapid heating and…
Compound may magnetically outperform neodymium magnets
NIMS and Tohoku Gakuin University have developed a boron-doped anisotropic Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)12 thin film containing only small…
Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane
Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, even stronger…
Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s
Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to…
North, South Korea brace for strong typhoon, flights halted
Hundreds of flights were canceled in South Korea while North Korea’s leader expressed concern about a…
Bioengineered soil microbes may help prevent desertification
By tweaking the genes of microbes in the soil, it may be possible to make arid…
Urban farming: four reasons it should flourish post-pandemic
Since lockdown, public interest in growing fruit and vegetables at home has soared. Seed packets are…
Lifting a sessile drop from a superamphiphobic surface using an impacting droplet
Colliding droplets are ubiquitous in everyday technologies such as combustion engines and sprays, and in natural…