Experts puzzled as 10-foot great white shark stays a month in one spot off East Coast

Great white sharks are known for racing past the Mid-Atlantic states to get someplace else, so…

The role of superstructure in first-cycle voltage loss in lithium-ion batteries

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded for the development of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. Akira…

Porous polymers show remarkable stability at high pressure

Umeå physicists in collaboration with the Technical University of Dresden and Chalmers University are the first…

Randomised trials in economics: what the critics have to say

The 2019 Nobel Prize has been awarded to three scholars for pioneering recent attempts to answer…

Scientists are designing accelerators that one day could help clean the environment

It’s been 30 years since a pilot project in Miami-Dade County found that blasting wastewater with…

New research tracing the development of the world's vital non-living nature

The health and wellbeing of humans is underpinned by the natural world. Living nature in the…

Liquid crystal monomers used in LCDs found to be potentially persistent and bio-accumulative

A team of researchers from China and Canada has found that liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) used…

The dark side of plant-based food—it's more about money than you may think

If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and…

A mobile phone for Christmas doesn't mean less family time for teenagers

Phones, tablets and laptops are usually at the top of many teenage wish lists at Christmas.…

How to induce magnetism in graphene

Graphene, a two-dimensional structure made of carbon, is a material with excellent mechanical, electronic and optical…