Clay minerals call the shots with carbon

Clay minerals suspended in seawater binds sedimentary organic carbon to their mineral surfaces. But the quantity…

Researchers design new material using artificial intelligence

Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new supercompressible but strong material without conducting any experimental…

3-D integrated metasurfaces stacking up for impressive holography

Physicists and materials scientists have developed a compact optical device containing vertically stacked metasurfaces that can…

Does technology make moving nukes safe? Depends whom you ask

The plutonium core for the first atomic weapon detonated in 1945 was taken from Los Alamos…

Protein-folded DNA nanostructures offer a new building material for biotechnology

By using proteins that naturally bind and arrange DNA inside cells, a KAUST-led team has devised…

Taking 2-D materials to the MAX

Discovered by researchers at Drexel University as electrodes for energy applications, MXenes have become a research…

Super light dampers for low tones

A team of Empa acoustic researchers has built macroscopic crystal structures that use internal rotation to…

Astrophysicist suggests light might be a problem for life on a planet orbiting a black hole

Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has taken what he describes as…

Hubble snaps spiral's profile

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, luminosities and orientations in the…

Veterinarians—beset by stress, death and debt—are dying by suicide at high rates

Even after 16 years as a veterinarian, 13 of them as a veterinary oncologist, there are…