The compulsive hoarding of animals is a poorly understood psychiatric disorder in people. Characterised by failure…
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NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly
During the morning of June 23, the fourth system in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was a…
Laser allows solid-state refrigeration of a semiconductor material
To the general public, lasers heat objects. And generally, that would be correct. Click…
Slow transit of sediment in Australia's Murray-Darling river system distorts environmental signal: study
Sediment can take a million years or more to travel from the mountains of the Great…
Powerful earthquake shakes southern, central Mexico
A powerful earthquake centered near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least one person,…
NASA's first planetary defense mission target gets a new name
Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon and the binary…
Suomi NPP satellite captures 63 mile smoke trail from bush fire
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bush Fire on June 22, 2020 showing…
Researchers cut nanometer-sized patterns into 2-D materials
EPFL researchers have developed a high-precision technology that enables them to carve nanometric patterns into two-dimensional…
3-D-printed neutrino detectors
Plastic scintillators are one of the most used active materials in high-energy physics. Their properties make…
Biomechanical analyses and computer simulations reveal the Venus flytrap snapping mechanisms
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) takes only 100 milliseconds to trap its prey. Once their leaves,…