New technology gives a glimpse of solar fuel generation in action

Electrochemical devices that use sunlight to generate fuel represent a promising means of harvesting sustainable energy;…

Method to customize microbes for better biofuel production

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a method to…

Roman bronze cauldron unearthed in central Norway burial cairn

Sometime around 150-300 CE a person died at the place now called Gylland in the Gaula…

Quantum computers could arrive sooner if we build them with traditional silicon technology

Quantum computers have the potential to revolutionize the way we solve hard computing problems, from creating…

Mathematicians proposed an express method for calculation of the propagation of light

Mathematicians from RUDN University and the Nuclear Safety Institute of the RAS (NSI RAS) have proposed…

Initial repulsion in chemical bonding does not rule out subsequent attraction

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer formulated a metaphor called the porcupine dilemma, which explains a certain optimal…

Inspired by natural signals in living cells, researchers design artificial gas detector

A cube one-40th the size of a human red blood cell can glow when it detects…

Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought

Researchers from Osaka University have made the striking discovery that multidrug-resistant bacteria may have been around…

A new methodology for sequencing viruses

NUS scientists have developed a more efficient method to sequence the complete genomes of infectious diseases…

NASA's Mars 2020 comes full circle

Engineers took NASA’s Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian…