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Rare salt formations appear along the Great Salt Lake
Rare salt formations have been documented for the first time on the shores of the Great…
Shocked meteorites provide clues to Earth's lower mantle
Deep below the Earth’s surface lies a thick rocky layer called the mantle, which makes up…
Low-temp photocatalyst could slash the carbon footprint for syngas
Rice University engineers have created a light-powered nanoparticle that could shrink the carbon footprint of a…
New research uses optical solitons in lasers to explore naturally-occurring supramolecules
Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County…
Trace metals in leatherback turtle eggs may harm consumers
Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs laid in Bocas del Toro nesting beaches in the Panamanian Caribbean…
'Superdiamond' carbon-boron cages can trap and tap into different properties
A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and…
SuperTIGER on its second prowl—130,000 feet above Antarctica
A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the origin of cosmic rays is taking its second…
Always counterclockwise: Puzzle of early Neolithic house orientations finally solved
Human behaviour is influenced by many things, most of which remain unconscious to us. One of…
Chromatin organizes itself into 3-D 'forests' in single cells
A single cell contains the genetic instructions for an entire organism. This genomic information is managed…