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Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices
A new type of battery combines negative capacitance and negative resistance within the same cell, allowing…
What Americans think about who deserves tuition-free college
Tuition-free college has gotten a lot of momentum of late. Click here for original…
The best time to harvest yams? Science says when the lower leaves turn yellow
Nigeria accounts for 60% of the world’s yam output and 74% of the total production in…
Human populations survived the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science…
Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs
The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research…
Shining a new light on biomimetic materials
Advances in biomimicry – creating biological responses within non-biological substances – will enable synthetic materials to…
CaPtAs: A new noncentrosymmetric superconductor
A research group from Zhejiang University in China has found that the noncentrosymmetric compound CaPtAs is…
Mystery monkey: Rare red colobus caught on camera in South Sudan
Oustalet’s or Semliki? That is the question. It may not be on everyone’s lips, but it’s…
Study: O&G companies reward US representatives who oppose environmental protections
A combined team of researchers from Yale University and the University of Cambridge has found that…