Category: Phys.org

Americans overestimate the future income for children from wealthy and middle-income families, but underestimate that for…

Engineering enzymes to turn plant waste into sustainable products

A new family of enzymes has been engineered to perform one of the most important steps…

Trees' water-use strategies can intensify droughts

Nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson, is no spendthrift. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Click here…

Mathematics ties media coverage of gun control to upticks in gun purchases

For the first time, researchers have shown a causal link between print news media coverage of…

Dutch telephone outage takes out nation's emergency number

A major telephone outage hit the Netherlands on Monday, taking down the country’s emergency number and…

'Tax us more,' US billionaires say

“Tax us more!” was the message on Monday from about 20 super-wealthy Americans who urged presidential…

Study explores 'rainbow wave' and identity gaps in LGBTQ liberal political perspectives

A University of Oklahoma study explores the so-called ‘rainbow wave’ of LGBTQ voters that emerged during…

Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation

For the third year in a row, the Trump administration has proposed large cuts in science…

Resonance-enhanced tunneling induces flourine and para-hydrogen reaction in interstellar clouds

Scientists from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and…

Galaxy clusters caught in a first kiss