NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the landfall of Tropical Storm…
Category: Phys.org
Phys.org
Genevieve approaches Mexico's Baja as Category 3 hurricane
Powerful Hurricane Genevieve began flinging rain at Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Wednesday and it threatened…
California staves off more power outages amid heat wave
California staved off another round of rolling blackouts as a searing heat wave strained its electrical…
Creating meaningful change in cities takes decades, not years, and starts from the bottom
Newly published research in Science Advances by University of Chicago researcher Luis Bettencourt proposes a new…
Lungfish fins reveal how limbs evolved
The evolution of limbs with functional digits from fish fins happened approximately 400 million years ago…
Bacteria can defuse dangerous chemical in Rassaic River
Bacteria that can help defuse highly toxic dioxin in sediments in the Passaic River—a Superfund hazardous…
Deep learning will help future Mars rovers go farther, faster, and do more science
NASA’s Mars rovers have been one of the great scientific and space successes of the past…
Ultrafast electrons in magnetic oxides: A new direction for spintronics?
Special metal oxides could one day replace semiconductor materials that are commonly used today in processors.…
Quest for quantum Internet gets a boost with new technique for making entanglement
Traditional ways of producing entanglements, necessary for the development of any ‘quantum internet’ linking quantum computers,…
Termite-fishing chimpanzees provide clues to the evolution of technology
Researchers, who remotely videotaped a generation of wild chimpanzees learning to use tools, gain insights into…