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Tool developed to calculate household 'plastics footprint'
How much plastic do we really use, and can we live without it? These are among…
Researchers discover skyrmions can split like biological cells
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of…
News next steps for the future of U.K. inshore fisheries
The next steps for an ambitious and collaborative project which aims to improve how inshore fisheries…
Local news volume does not increase pro-social behaviors during COVID-19
During this pandemic, there are countless voices urging Americans to engage in the kind of civic…
New plant gene editing approach improves speed, scalability and heritability
Breeding plants for specific characteristics goes back thousands of years. For most of that time, the…
Ultra-thin camera lenses of the future could see the light of day
In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to…
Newly synthesized fungal compound can switch on a self-destruct button for cancer
Cancers cells use a special technique to propagate: They delete their “programmed death” gene through mutation,…
Physics principle explains order and disorder of swarms
Current experiments support the controversial hypothesis that a well-known concept in physics—a critical point—is behind the…
New topological materials could have multiple electrical properties
This it is the story of a unique material—made of a single compound, it conducts electrons…